Locum Consultant Trauma and Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Job overview

The Paediatric Orthopaedic Department provides a secondary service, together with a busy tertiary service which forms a large proportion of our workload. We have specialists in neuromuscular disorders, adolescent hip problems, limb deformity correction, upper limb problems and paediatric foot deformities.  We are the busiest Paediatric Major Trauma Centre in the UK.

There are a variety of MDT’s with other hospital specialities and specialist teams.  There are several excellent opportunities for the successful applicant to contribute to and develop services at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

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The post holder is expected to:

• Cover the provision of comprehensive and efficient secondary and tertiary paediatric orthopaedic and trauma surgery services. This is likely to include providing an outreach service to a designated district general hospital.  There will be an on-call commitment shared, proportionally, with the other consultants in the department for provision of acute trauma and orthopaedic surgical services. 
• Provide evidence-based care for all inpatients and outpatients.
• Have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the NHS Plan, Your Guide to the NHS, and purchaser agreements.
• Participate fully in the management of the Department and to liaise closely with the Lead Clinician, General Manager and Clinical Lead.
• The post holder may be required to carry out other duties in emergencies and unforeseen circumstances and to cover, proportionally, for colleague’s annual, study and sick leave.
• The duties outlined are not definite and may be changed in accordance with needs of the service requiring the post holder to be cooperative and flexible.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.