Speciality Doctor Trauma & Orthopaedics

Role: Speciality Doctor Trauma & Orthopaedics

Location: Hereford

Salary: £61,542 - £99,216 per annum

Contract Type: 6 months (Fixed Term 6 months)

Hours: Full time - 10.5 sessions per week (Fixed Contract period February 2026 - August 2026)

Closing Date: 22/12/2025 08:00

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This is an opportunity to join a dynamic department of 13 consultants who sub-specialise in Upper limb, Lower limb and Foot and Ankle. Herefordshire is a beautiful county of rolling landscape and this job should provide you with a good work life balance. This is primarily a service job but you will be encouraged and supported to take the FRCS (T&O) exam should you wish.

Please note: Fixed Contract period August 2025 – February 2026 (Possibility of later start upon negotiation).

• You will participate fully in the out-patient, ward and theatre management of both elective and emergency admissions under the supervision of your named consultant.
• You will advise and supervise Junior Staff on clinical matters.
• You are second on-call. You will respond appropriately to referrals from your juniors and other departments. You are not on the Trauma Team.
• You will attend the Trauma Meeting most weekdays. Every day when on Trauma Week, on-call or the day after on-call. Seven days a week we start with a Trauma Meeting which is part business, part educational. All the admissions from the previous 24 hours are discussed.
• You will also perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances, at the request of the particular consultant, in consultation where practicable with your colleagues both senior and junior.

• Good time keeping
• Ability to organise workload coping with varied pressures of the role
• Initiative & Empathy

• Demonstration of leadership qualities

• Basic medical qualifications
• Full doctors registration with GMC License to practice
• MRCS (or equivalent)
• ALTS
• 6 months paid working experience as a Doctor in the NHS

• Completion of AO Principles of Fracture Fixation course
• Medical Statistics
• Recognised logbook demonstrating exposure to trauma, arthroplasty +/- arthroplasty

• At least 4 years full time post graduate training, at least 2 of which are:
  • In an orthopaedics and trauma speciality training programme
  • As a fixed term speciality trainee in T&O
  • Shall have equivalent experience and competencies