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Are you an experienced Orthopaedic Surgeon ready to take on a new challenge and apply your specialised skills in Hand and Wrist surgery in a new environment?

As our new Consultant at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, you will have the opportunity to embark on a 6-month fixed-term journey toward developing further your expertise and improving the services we are providing. This position may be extended to 12 months and potentially, become a full-time role.

You will join a team of 25 Consultants in providing a wide range of elective and acute services at Peterborough City Hospital. Cross-site working at Hinchingbrooke Hospital may be required to provide elective service. Day care elective surgery is conducted at both facilities.

As a specialist surgeon, you will collaborate with the existing Hand and Wrist Consultant team and maintain liaison with the Plastic Surgery team.

You will demonstrate passion for hand surgery and evidence sub-specialist experience in facial surgery, dupuytren and joint fusions. Post-CCT experience in hand and wrist surgery, including relevant fellowship experience, are essential.

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The sessional commitments of 10 Pas are divided into 6 fixed clinical sessions averaging 3 Outpatient Clinics, and 3 Theatre sessions per week. You will participate in the provision of acute services on a 1:10 weekday (Mon – Friday) on call within a paired system and a 1:20 weekend based at Peterborough City Hospital.

The role involves taking full clinical responsibility for a wide range of elective and emergency Orthopaedic patients, both children and adults, and liaise with specialist centres when appropriate. You will participate in the management of acute hand injuries with a commitment to the hand trauma list.

You will be expected to take a lead role in Medical Student Education. Experience in delivering high quality student education would be an advantage.  Therefore, you will supervise and manage Junior Medical Staff and deliver teaching and training programmes to Junior Medical Staff, Allied Healthcare Professionals and Medical Students.

You will be required to demonstrate excellent team working, flexibility, adaptability and be able to integrate into a strong cohesive team to deliver operational performance. In addition, you will participate in all departmental activities including audit, clinical governance, and research.

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North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust provides acute care to our local communities via two District General Hospitals in Peterborough and Huntingdon, and a community hospital in Stamford.

We are promoting flexible working and a health work/home life balance. Agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.