Job overview

This is an established post joining the Senior Clinical Fellow rota which totals 11 individuals: 5 Trauma Fellows, 6 Senior Clinical Fellows.   This rota is supported by a Registrar rota and a Junior Clinical Fellow rota.  At present the rotas are subject to review and may change. 

This post is to work primarily with Mr. Groom, Miss Phillips, Mr. Lahoti and Mr Saini.  Cross-covering within the Limb Reconstruction Firm is necessary and the appointed candidate is expected to be flexible in their weekly duties.  The King’s Limb Reconstruction Service is now well established and takes patients from South East England, and from the Armed Forces.  The Service also supports the Major Trauma Centre.

There is a well-established multi-disciplinary team with a meeting every Monday morning.  In addition there is a Bone Infection MDT.

The workload is difficult to characterize and continues to develop.   It includes: 

·         Fracture non-union, both aseptic and infected

·         Acute complex trauma

·         Malunion

·         Congenital deformity and leg length discrepancy

·         Osteomyelitis

·         Lower limb joint arthroplasty

·         Paediatric Orthopaedics 

Inevitably many different techniques including Ilizarov, Taylor Spatial Frame, MaxFrame, LRS and Lengthening intramedullary nails are used within this service.  

Main duties of the job

The post will be based at Denmark Hill and this will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. 

 As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.   Integral to these responsibilities is the following: 

·         The provision of a first class clinical service.

·         Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.

·         Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP.

·         Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies.

·         Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans.

·         Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.