Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon

This is a substantive post and has been arisen due to a continual demand for Foot & Ankle and Trauma services at North Middlesex University Hospital. It is also designed to help the expanding trauma in general. The successful candidate will join a team of 9 Consultants both to provide their services for the Trust, and to ensure that the Junior Doctors are continually supported at the required level and their training needs are met.

• This post is committed to providing an Orthopaedic and Trauma service with sub-specialisation in Foot & Ankle and Trauma.
• Participation in the Trauma On-call service 1 in 10 weeks including weekends. There shall be 1:10 weekday on-call. Weekend shall include Saturday and Sunday. Including this post-there shall be total of 9 consultants in the department, all of who shall participate in the ‘trauma on-call’ week.
• Planned Operative lists- Acute and planned Trauma theatres.
• Ward rounds on the on-call week
• Outpatient clinics, which shall include Fracture clinic and planned non-urgent trauma clinic.
• Active involvement in Trauma management, both Adult and Paediatric.
• Supervision and training of Middle Grades
• Participation in management duties within the Department and the Trust
• Active liaison with the Emergency Department and attendance at Local and Regional Trauma meetings
• Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within the allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
• Actively participate in the Unit’s teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
• Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD.
  
  

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Simond Jagernauth Job title: Clinical Director Email address: simond.jagernauth@nhs.net