Senior Locally Employed Doctor (Higher) in Shoulder and Elbow (Post CCT)

Job overview

Please note this post is to commence in August 2025.

Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Orthopaedic Shoulder and Elbow (Post-CCT)

Applications are invited for two posts of Senior Upper Limb Fellow at Manchester Royal Infirmary (Major Trauma Centre) and Trafford General Hospital .  The post is available for a period of 6 months, with potential to extend to 12 months.  The post-holder will join a dynamic and innovative upper-limb team with active research and clinical interests.  The post will involve wide exposure in arthroscopic and open shoulder and elbow surgery, including arthroplasty and trauma.

The post-holder should be able to demonstrate a subspecialty interest and experience in shoulder & elbow surgery.  Applicants should have full GMC registration, completed the FRCS (Tr&Orth) or equivalent and ideally have CCT or CESR in trauma and orthopaedics.  

There will be ample research and publication opportunities, with active involvement in the trials that are running within the upper limb department.

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This advanced fellowship in upper limb surgery will focus on elective and traumatic conditions of the shoulder and elbow. This is suitable for surgeons from the UK and elsewhere who are close to completion, or have completed their orthopaedic training and wish to pursue a career in shoulder and elbow surgery.

Dedicated time will be allocated to departmental research, including the current RCT investigating rehabilitation following shoulder surgery.

The post-holder will be accountable to the Lead Clinician.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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.