Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a Senior Clinical Fellow in the Department of Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery, at Salford Royal Foundation Trust. This is a 12 months post which will provide an opportunity for the appointee to learn and develop subspecialty-level skills in the management of plastics elective and trauma surgery.

The Salford Royal Foundation Trust is a Major Trauma Centre for Greater Manchester (population of 3.2 million).

SRFT provides services to the people of Salford in addition to regional and national services for particular sub specialties. In total there are currently 29 consultant surgeons within the directorate.

The Department is supported by Deanery ST3+ registrars and middle grades, Specialty Doctors and junior doctor at all levels. We also have a team of Trauma Nurse Coordinators who supports the trauma service and 2 Consultant Orthogeriatricians with advanced nurse practitioners who support our elderly trauma & orthopaedic patients.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be based at SRFT with elective lists also based at other hospitals within the Northern Care Alliance.

The successful applicant must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a Licence to Practise.

The appointee will be expected to participate fully in the provision of services to the residents of Salford.

The post holder will join a 1 in 6 on call rota model with corresponding banding.

The post-holder will be expected to take a role in ensuring delivery of a quality service. This will include the following:

• mplementing and ensuring compliance with Trust and national policies and procedures.
• Participate in reviewing and allocating resources appropriately
• Participate in reviewing and managing progress and improvement within the area.

The post holder will be required to ensure that services are delivered within agreed parameters, covering clinical guidelines and also national performance waiting time targets. There will be particular emphasis within this post on supporting the service to achieve the National Cancer Waiting time targets.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to the ongoing improvement of the clinical service.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/about-us/our-values