Locum Consultant in T&O (Interest in Lower Limb, Trauma Surgery)inCambridgeinCambridgePUBLISHED WED 27 NOV 2024

Applications are invited for a 6 month post of a Locum Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics with a Subspecialty Interest in Lower Limb, Trauma Surgery. The post is available to start ASAP until October 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to work at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust alongside motivated teams dedicated to quality of care, research, training and service improvement.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is part of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB. It is a specialist centre for many services including trauma and orthopaedics, bone infection, major trauma, transplant surgery, molecular genetics, mitochondrial diseases to name but a few.

Trauma & Orthopaedics at CUH has expanded; as well as being one of the country's largest Major Trauma Centres with daily complex, high energy and frailty trauma being looked after by renowned surgical teams; it is also expanding its elective orthopaedic capacity. The new Cambridge Movement Surgical Hub is the physical embodiment of the growing role within the region.

The successful applicant would join a large team in one of the busiest Major Trauma Centres in the UK and would be expected to have the skills for treating the multiply-injured patient, open fractures and complex lower limb trauma alongside a multi-specialty trauma team. In addition, the applicant should have a particular interest in complex trauma, with experience at post-CCT Fellowship (or equivalent) level. There is a preference for trauma experience at fellowship level.

You will be fully registered with the GMC and have a CCT and appropriate higher subspecialist training, or be within six months of completion of Fellowship or equivalent at the time of interview. Applications are welcomed from those unable to work full time for personal reasons or those wishing to job-share.

The applicant would take part in the on-call rota and would have a mixed role in trauma and elective orthopaedic surgery, but applicants wishing to focus solely on trauma care would also be supported. CUH provides a highly supportive environment for research and there are opportunities for training of senior and junior trainees, specialist nurses and AHP's.

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