Locum Consultant T&O Surgeon with a Special Interest in Foot & Ankle

The Trust wishes to appoint a 6 month locum full time Orthopaedic consultant with a special interest in Foot and Ankle surgery. The appointee will join the present consultants, providing elective and trauma services.

The Humber Health Partnership provides services to the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and acts as a tertiary referral centre for complex cases such as foot and ankle, spine, paediatrics, non-unions and pelvic injuries.

The Department seeks to attract consultants with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle Surgery.

This is a full time post with a basic job plan of 10Pas with the option to increase to 12PAs.

The successful candidate would join the current on call rota of 1:7 and would contribute to the weekday office hour's trauma clinics and trauma theatre.

Some of these cases are tertiary referrals from neighbouring NHS trust hospitals.

The successful candidate would join one other surgeon who currently undertakes Foot and Ankle Surgery at the Scunthorpe General hospital site.

Administration Support

An operational management team comprising of Senior General Manager, General Manager and Senior Service manager work closely with the department to support in effective delivery of services.

Main duties of the job

As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support, other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality health care to the trusts patients.

• To ensure the provision of a first class clinical service.
• To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality.
• To undertake all work in accordance with the trusts procedures and operating policies.
• To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the trusts and business units services plans.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.