LED Junior Doctor in Trauma Orthopaedic

Due to a significant number of elderly proximal femur fracture patients, the Trauma Team works closely with the Ortho-geriatrician Team. This provides a great opportunity for the post holder to obtain a diverse skill mix with emphasis of management of acute and subacute medical conditions, in addition to generic surgical and orthopaedic skills. It is expected the post will attract individuals with a wide variety of specialist interests, such as: Medicine, Surgery, Anaesthesia, and Radiology., Principal Responsibilities: Junior grade doctors are responsible for the day to day care of patients. In particular Trauma Service junior doctors are responsible for: - Routine care of all patients on the Trauma Service. - Specific responsibility for the assessment, care and theatre preparation for all emergency admissions when on-call. - Audit data collection, prescribing and immediate discharge communication for all patients on the Trauma Service.

• 12 months Post Graduate experience
• Sound Core General Medicine & Surgical knowledge
• include previous trauma and orthopaedic experience
• Needs NHS experience in an FY2 post or SHO equivalent or higher
Desirable criteria
• previous work at OUH
• ATLS Provider, Medical Qualification Post internship/FY1
• GMC Registration with a licence to practise
Desirable criteria
• Valid ATLS certificate, Aligned to the Trust values
• Sound core General Medical & Surgical Knowledge
• 2 years NHS experience.
Desirable criteria
• Emergency medicine/surgery post, Team working
• Communication skills
• Organisation Computer Literate, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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., 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 and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General 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. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.