Senior Registrar in Orthopaedics

These are fixed term appointments to the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and are identified as an important part of its strategy to remain a preferred provider to local Health Authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups across a wide range of hospital services. The appointment will enhance an existing successful track record of a Unit, which has an enviable reputation for good quality patient care and the determination to build upon this

KEY POINTS

**The successful applicants will be expected to**:
1. Deliver quality Orthopaedic services in the most effective way, regularly benchmarking service to improve practice.
2. Support the organisational aim of HHFT making a positive contribution to the management and financial strategies.
3. Enhance and provide professional leadership within the Trauma and Orthopaedic department.
4. Initiate and take part in regular clinical audit.
5. Have an active role in research within the department.
6. Contribute to training and teaching of more junior doctors.

The clinical duties will include those normally expected in the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department of any large acute District General Hospital in the United Kingdom.

Specialty registrars have a continuing commitment to their patients and for the proper functioning of the Department. The post holder will be required to undertake administrative and managerial duties and exert leadership as necessary to fulfil this responsibility.

The department has recently undergone a service transformation. Trauma services and some elective work are provided from the Basingstoke site. Elective arthroplasty is performed on the Winchester site. Elective and fracture outpatient clinics occur on both sites. The trauma service is led by a Consultant of the Week with a Service Consultant in trauma theatre. There is a middle grade doctor in trauma theatre each day.

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

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