Las Trauma

The Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, is situated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, with some clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Bracknell Healthspace and Townlands Hospital. The Department provides the Trauma Service for a catchment area with a population of 500,000. Accordingly, about half the work of the department is trauma surgery.

This Department has at present 97 beds for inpatients. There is a ring fenced ward for elective orthopaedic surgery.

There are close links with the Department of Rheumatology and three consultant Orthogeriatricians. A PACS radiology system has been in place since 2002.

You will be working on a level equivalent to CT3 and must have previous NHS experience at CT3 level. You will be an integral part of a team working for a consultant. You will attend your consultants’ elective theatre lists and clinics. You will also be rostered for fracture clinics and regular trauma lists. Depending on your team allocation, you may be expected to travel between hospital sites to attend peripheral clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury, Bracknell Healthspace or Townlands Hospital, Henley. You will form part of the middle grade on call rota.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1stJune 2006. The Ophthalmic service has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for over 1,000,000 patients across Berkshire. The Trust is Reading’s biggest employer and may form the central hospital for one of the country’s new medical schools.

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.

The trust provides several services Berkshire-wide (e.g. Ophthalmology, renal). Following the principle of care closer to home, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust offers services from many locations, including King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, Windsor dialysis unit,West Berkshire Community Hospital, Royal Berkshire Bracknell Healthspace, Townlands Hospital Henley and there are visiting clinics in Wallingford and Wantage.

You will be working on a level equivalent to CT3 and must have previous NHS experience at CT3 level. You will be an integral part of a team working for a consultant. You will attend your consultants’ elective theatre lists and clinics. You will also be rostered for fracture clinics and regular trauma lists. Depending on your team allocation, you may be expected to travel between hospital sites to attend peripheral clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury, Bracknell Healthspace or Townlands Hospital, Henley. You will form part of the middle grade on call rota.