Locum Consultant in Paediatric Orthopaedics

Main area Paediatric Orthopaedics Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Locum Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (8 PA job plan basis with 1:4 on-call commitment, which covers the elective service but not the trauma service, with no obligatory trauma on-call commitments.) Hours Full time - 8 sessions per week (8 PA job plan basis with 1:4 on-call commitment, which covers the elective service but not the trauma service, with no obligatory trauma on-call commitments.)

Job
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Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £113,565 - £150,569 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

This is the first advert for this 1-year locum consultant post, with a view to this becoming a substantive job in the near future. We are an established team of 4 consultants who work alongside specialist nurses and physiotherapists, clinical fellow with the only RCS-certified Paediatric Orthopaedic fellowship in the country, deanery and CESR trainees, and a nationally-renowned Gait Lab.

The service provides an elective

Paediatric Orthopaedic serviceto the Oxford region,working closely with a multidisciplinary team, and developing the service further to support colleagues in regional hospitals across Thames Valley.

We are looking fora colleague who can help us towards buildingthis service further.

To provide a high quality secondary and tertiary paediatric orthopaedic service to the children and adolescents of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley, and neighbouring counties.

Tosupportthemultidisciplinaryteam,and participate in multidisciplinary meetings

To support and continue to develop clinical collaboration with otherpaediatricservices in Oxford and Buckinghamshire, especially where this may impact on paediatric orthopaedic provision.

To develop further paediatric training in orthopaedics with support of Locally and Nationally appointed trainees and provide orthopaedic teaching for other undergraduate and postgraduate trainees

To comply with the recommendations of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, National GIRFT (‘Getting it Right First Time’) review of Paediatric Orthopaedics, and the Royal College of Surgeons for the provision of acute and specialty services for children.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 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…