The Trauma and Orthopaedic Clinical Directorate provides a high-quality, safe, and patient-focused service.
The Directorate forms part of the surgical services within the Division of Planned Care. The Trauma and Orthopaedic Department is extremely busy, with a substantial elective and trauma workload covering a wide spectrum of procedures. There are daily general trauma theatre lists, alongside sub-specialist elective operating lists across a range of disciplines, including upper limb surgery (encompassing complex soft tissue procedures, ligament reconstruction, arthroscopy, and primary and revision arthroplasty), paediatric orthopaedics, lower limb surgery, foot and ankle surgery (including sports injuries, trauma reconstruction, arthroscopic and open elective procedures, and ankle arthroplasty), and orthopaedic hand surgery (covering hand and wrist trauma as well as elective conditions).In addition, the department runs busy, daily fracture clinics, paediatric trauma clinics at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital site, and daily hand trauma clinics.
The department has developed a highly professional and commercially focused approach to delivering the highest standards of patient-centred care.
Please refer to the chart detailed in the job description for an indicative job plan outlining the allocation of programmed activities. Please note that this is a provisional plan and will be agreed with the post holder in due course.
The job plan may be subject to future amendment to reflect the needs of the service, following consultation with the post holder.
Please note that the post may include on-calls and will entail cross-site working between the Chelsea, West Middlesex and NWL Elective Orthopaedic Centre sites.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
The post holder will be required to contribute to the upper limb and trauma service in a cross-site capacity, as well as at the newly opened Northwest London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC). The successful candidate is expected to be fellowship trained in upper limb surgery, alongside maintaining competence in general trauma.
The role entails a strong upper-limb trauma orientation whilst it still also does include an elective commitment.
It is desirable that the post holder holds a higher clinical degree.
Candidates must demonstrate a clear commitment to service improvement, evidenced through previous audits and completed service development projects.
The successful candidate will be expected to build on established collaborative relationships within a multidisciplinary team.
They will potentially participate in a 1:8 trauma on-call rota, including weekend cover, and will contribute to audit, research, management, and ongoing service development.
Daytime trauma responsibilities include leading the trauma list, conducting ward rounds, managing referrals, assessing acute admissions, operating on trauma cases, supporting clinic activity, communicating with relatives, and contributing to teaching.
