Orthogeriatric Locum Consultant

Job summary

Orthogeriatric Locum Consultant

Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics

Salary: £93,666 - £126,281 Per Annum/Pro Rata

Grade: Locum Consultant

Contract Length: 12 Months Fixed Term

We are recruiting for a Orthogeriatric Locum Consultant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The orthopaedic department has dedicated ward with 27 trauma beds on Pembroke ward and alongside patients admitted to other acute surgical wards.

We treat around 360 hip fracture patients per year, 40-50 other femoral fracture (distal and shaft) patients and 30-40 peri-prosthetic femur fracture patients. At any one time there are approx. 22 to 30 femoral fracture inpatients under our care.

We have recently introduced accelerated hip pathway and are continuously improving and are working towards a 24-hour target to theatre from admission for patients with femoral fractures and 36-48 hours target for the periprosthetic fractures. Our aim is to optimise achievement of best practice tariff providing high quality and safe care.

There are 13 Consultant Orthopaedic surgeons, 5 specialist registrars and 6 SAS middle grade doctors. Junior doctor team consists of 10 Core Orth trainee equivalent doctors, 2 FY2s and 1 FY1. Currently we have two full time qualified Trauma - coordinators.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide direct input to patients admitted under the fractured femur pathway, patients admitted with peri prosthetic fractures and frail patients admitted with other orthopaedic issues assuming a continuous commitment for the care of ward inpatients.

Improve pre-operative optimisation, lead the perioperative medical management of fractured-femur and peri prosthetic fracture patients and to coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.

Provide oversite and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team (4 senior house officers) and contribute towards the teaching.

Participate in the daily trauma meetings, weekly handover meeting and monthly fracture femur pathway meeting.

Participate and attend the monthly audit and clinical governance meetings

Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintenance of continuing professional development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practice

MBBS or Equivalent

Speciality Certificate Exam in Geriatrics (RCP)

Supervisor qualifications (educational supervisor from RCP)

Post graduate membership with at least 2 years post membership experience

Experience in geriatrics, at least 1 year and orthogeriatrics, at least 1 year