About the role
Salary: £113565.00 to £150569.00
The successful candidates will have a major interest in orthopaedic trauma management with particular focus on pelvic and acetabular trauma. An elective interest will also be accommodated assuming it fits with the needs of the department. They will be one of 2 lead trauma consultants within one of the 4 orthopaedic trauma teams, each team being made up of 4 consultants. The more senior trauma lead consultants within each clinical team will provide mentorship to the successfulcandidates and joint operating is encouraged for more complex cases.
Consultant appointments are made to the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust; as services are developed and changed, the base of posts may alter and any employee of the Trust will be expected, within an agreed clinical strategy, to move his/her sessions as the service requires.
Each weekday (Mon-Thursday) is covered by a team of 4 consultants who undertake new patient and follow-up fracture clinics at both Coventry and Rugby as well as immediate care of the multipleinjured patient in the resuscitation room on a rotating basis. The On-call commitment at weekends is 1 in 8 and includes, 8am-8pm trauma lists on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.