Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

3 months ago


Oxford, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Doctors Direct (part of NHS Professionals)** is a leading provider of locum services to the NHS and is wholly owned by the Department of Health. We are an alternative to private agencies, do not charge expensive agency fees and any profit we make goes directly back into the NHS, meaning that working through Doctors Direct supports your local Trust and saves money for the NHS as a whole.

Our client, **Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust** are looking for locum **Consultant**doctors **Trauma and Orthopaedic** surgery.

To be successful, you must be able to perform various surgical procedures to repair, salvage, or replace bones and joints, reconnect nerves, among others, in order to improve musculoskeletal health.

**Orthopaedic Surgeon Responsibilities**:

- Consulting with patients and analysing patient data to determine patient needs and treatment goals.
- Examining patients to diagnose bone, joint, ligament, or other musculoskeletal problems, including diseases, or injuries.
- Collaborating with other specialists, when necessary, to determine a course of treatment.
- Administering general and local anaesthetics, when necessary.
- Performing surgical procedures on various parts of the musculoskeletal system, including plating broken bones, reattaching tendons and ligaments, or performing joint or hip replacements, among other procedures.
- Prescribing medication to improve recovery and control pain after surgical procedures.
- Referring patients to physical therapy, when necessary, or performing non-invasive procedures such as casting and splinting limbs.

**The details of the role are**:

- **Grade**: Consultant
- **Speciality**: T&O
- **Location**: Oxford
- **Start date**: ASAP on going until further notice.
- **Shift pattern**: 8:00-16:00/8:00-18:00/7:30-19:00 (full & part time hours available)
- **Rates**: £100-£120 per hour

This is also a great opportunity to join our National Bank, which enables you to work at not just one trust but multiple trusts in various roles across the country.
- Valid GMC
- Right to work in the UK
- Clinical attachment complete
- Minimum of 3 months paid experience in the NHS/UK

**About the Trust**

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching Trusts in the UK. It’s made up of four hospitals: The John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, The West Wing and Oxford Eye Hospital, The Oxford Heart Centre and the Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital which can be found in Banbury, North Oxfordshire.

OUH’s core values are excellence, compassion, respect, delivery, learning and improvement with collaboration and partnership being central to their ability to deliver their fundamental activities of patient care, teaching and research.

Just some of the Trusts recent ambitious research programmes include the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and the Biomedical Research Unit in musculoskeletal disease. Here, the Trust is setting the standard in translating science and research into NHS clinical care that’s better than ever for patients.

**Why Choose Doctors Direct?**

Doctors Direct are part of NHS Professionals and owned by the Department of Health and Social Care, which means that we are part of the NHS family and sets us apart from locum agencies. Saving money and providing only the highest quality locum cover to our partner Trusts is at the very heart of what we do.

Doctors Direct are part of the NHS and do not charge our partner Trusts the expensive fees associated with private locum agencies. That means every shift worked by one of our members helps save money for the Trust and the wider NHS. These vital saving can then be reinvested into what matters most, patient care and safety.

**Here are some interesting facts about us**:

- We do not make a profit and do not pay recruitment consultant’s commission
- Our margins stay the same at £1 no matter your grade/speciality
- We pay you the same rates as any other agency (as per trust agreement)

**Not only do members of Doctors Direct help save money for the NHS, they receive fantastic benefits including;**
- **First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust** - access before they are made available to agency
- **Wellbeing incentives **-take advantage of the wellbeing hub
- **Competitive pay rates** - work this week, get paid next week
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go** - access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Essential support when you need it - 24/7 365 days - **Call us anytime
- **Multi-locational** - work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle **- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

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