Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics Upper Limb
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Redditch, B98 7UBView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£113,565 to £150,569
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 November 2026
10 days leftJob description
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Locum Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics Upper Limb Surgery. The Directorate provide...
This is a replacement post for a Consultant in Upper Limb Surgery. The successful applicant will provide elective cover at Alexandra Hospital Redditch. They will undertake a regular upper limb operating lists at Alexandra hospital, with access to dual consultant operating and support for complex/revision cases where required. They will also be part of a 1:4 rota for ambulatory trauma at our Kidderminster Site.
The post holder will contribute to the trauma rota and support the delivery of Upper Limb trauma surgery. They will also participate in MDT working and complex case discussions.
Applicants must be on, or within 6 months of entry to, the GMC Specialist Register for Trauma & Orthopaedics.
This job description together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.
- A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
- The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
- The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.
- The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
- The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings.
- The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives.
- The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large
acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute
services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a
larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from
three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our
caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred
care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to
work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our
everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise
accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working
within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a
DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check
(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting
Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in T&O
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Expertise in sub-specialty
Teaching Experience
Essential
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines
- Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
Desirable: - Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Qualifications
Essential: - Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.; - Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in T&O (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via
- CCT or CESR (PP)
- CESR or
- European Community Rights
Management & Administrative Experience
Essential
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
- Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit
Desirable
- Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate
- Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making
Research Experience
Essential: - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems; - An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative
Desirable: - Publications in relevant peer- reviewed journals in the last 5 years; - Evidence of having undertaken original research
How to apply
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First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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