Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Trauma and Pelvic Surgeon

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Trauma and Pelvic Surgeon

The closing date is 17 March 2026

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would like to appoint a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to specialise in the delivery of trauma surgery.

The Trauma & Orthopaedic department leads on all poly‑trauma cases ensuring that all trauma is managed appropriately. The orthopaedic ward has been converted into the ‘trauma unit’ where all trauma patients, excluding patients with a serious head injury, will be managed along with orthopaedic trauma and elective orthopaedic work. Trauma cases are currently overseen by the orthopaedic consultant of the week, with this consultant changing on a rotational basis.

There will be the opportunity to gain significant experience working alongside a team of specialist surgeons. The Major Trauma Centre is led by the T & O department and works on a 7‑day consultant of the week model. At the weekends there is partial double consultant cover.

The T&O Care Group currently has 24 orthopaedic surgeons. In addition to providing elective and trauma services to its local population, the Trauma & Orthopaedic Care Group offers a range of tertiary services. The adult Trauma & Orthopaedic facilities are all located in the St James' Wing of St George's Hospital and include two orthopaedic wards, an outpatient unit and three orthopaedic theatres, one of which is dedicated to major trauma.

We are also one of the partner Trusts at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) in Epsom, a dedicated Orthopaedic centre for the Southwest London region.

The post holder will be contracted for 10 programmed activities per week. 9 PA will be direct clinical commitment including major trauma on-call week (at present 1:21), out of hours on-call (at present 1:15), outpatients, MDT and operating lists.

1 PA is allocated for supporting activities including the completion of non‑clinical administrative work, work needed for participation in national registries and other local administration.

Trust Vision & Values:

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

All staff:

Should be focused on qualitative as well as quantitative outcomes.

Have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.

Must ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.

Should work in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.

Must ensure skills are up‑to‑date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.

Must comply with St. George's Healthcare No Smoking Policies.

Will undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.

DCC 7 PA

On-Call 2 PA

SPA 1PA

Total 10PA

It is expected that the post holder will complete their supporting activity through attendance at the care groups operational management meeting, the orthopaedic clinical governance meeting (including presenting on morbidity and mortality) and through teaching commitments. Where these activities are timetabled to occur at the same time as other programmed activities the post holder will ensure that appropriate and timely arrangements are made to enable their attendance.

The Trust and the post holder may expect of each other that appropriate time is set aside for audit, appraisal and personal CPD and the post holder can expect reasonable professional leave in support of CPD and specialty development. The Trust has the required arrangements in place to ensure that all surgeons have an annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and…