Trauma Registrar

Job Summary

TITLE OF POST: Oxford Trauma 'Registrar' / Locally Employed Doctor (LED)
GRADE: ST3-8 (MT04) Equivalent
SPECIALTY: Trauma Surgery
REASON FOR VACANCY: Fixed Term Contract
SUPERVISING CONSULTANT: Variable (all consultants are involved)
CLINICAL SUPERVISOR: TBC
FULL-TIME/PART-TIME: Full Time
BASE HOSPITAL: The John Radcliffe
WORK PATTERN: Full/Partial shift 1:10 Rota
AVERAGE NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: 40
Out of hours commitment is applicable
INCLUDES PROSPECTIVE COVER: YES

Main Duties of the Job

The Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital comprises 48 dedicated inpatient beds for the management of adult trauma within Oxford, while also delivering Major Trauma Services to approximately 3.2 million residents across the Thames Valley region. Additional capacity includes admissions to the adjacent critical care unit, with paediatric trauma patients managed on designated children's wards.

The service is responsible for the definitive management of injured patients. We provide care for orthopaedic trauma patients, with treatment delivered collaboratively alongside other specialties as required, depending on the nature, severity, and overall burden of injury. Patients with multiple injuries are managed within a multidisciplinary framework.

The department maintains a particularly close working relationship with the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery service. The Trauma Service focuses exclusively on trauma care; infections, soft tissue injuries, hand injuries, and cauda equina syndrome are managed by other specialist teams. However, the Trauma middle-grade team provides overnight support to the spinal service, including the management of trauma-related and metastatic spinal cord injuries.

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

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Job Responsibilities

The middle-grade workforce consists of six Specialty Trainees, one CESR trainee, and two to three Junior Clinical Fellows (including this post). A key component of the role is that all middle-grade doctors have equitable access to clinical training opportunities and share service commitments, including theatre participation, ISCP workplace-based assessments (WBAs), educational supervision, and regular Multi-Consultant Reviews (MCRs).

The Trauma Service operates a Consultant of the Week model to support its significant emergency workload. A dedicated, consultant-led on-call team is in place for each 24-hour period, comprising a consultant, middle-grade doctor, and Foundation Year 2 (F2) doctor working within a structured shift system. Following a multidisciplinary team (MDT) ward round and formal handover, the night team is relieved of duty the following day.

In addition, two consultants are allocated to lead the daily operating lists, while a fourth consultant undertakes outpatient clinics or ward rounds. Trainees are expected to actively support both theatre sessions and clinics as part of their clinical responsibilities.

Description of Working Pattern: Registrars work a rolling ten-week rota including on-call four and three night shifts blocks.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• Completed MBBS or equivalent
• Completion of Core surgical training or equivalent
• Hold MRCS
• Current ATLS Provider status

Desirable:

• Completed AO Basic Principles of Fracture Management course
• MSc / PhD in related field
• Experience and evidence of Audit, quality Improvement and Service Development

Experience

Essential:

• UK Core surgical training programme
• 12 months experience in Registrar level Trauma and Orthopaedics in UK MTC or TU

Desirable:

• Experience at 'Registrar' level at a Major Trauma Centre
• Teaching experience to both under and post-graduate level

Skills

Essential:

• The ability to run an unfiltered Major Trauma Take
• The ability to organise and plan a surgical list involving complex injuries
• The ability to lead a on-call / ward team including working closely with members of the MDT and other specialties

Additional Information

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Employer name: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Address: NOC, Oxford, OX3 7LD

Employer's website: https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/

Employer Contact

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant • Trauma and Orthopaedics
Andrew Titchener
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