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Job Title: Senior Clinical Fellow post in Trauma & Orthopaedics
Department: Trauma & Orthopaedics (Dept. of Surgery and Anaesthetics)
Location: Clyde Hospitals (GGC) – Cross site Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley and Inverclyde Royal Hospital, (plus Vale of Leven Hospital)
The RAH is the Trauma Unit for the West of Scotland Trauma Network (Clyde Sector). It provides Orthopaedic and Trauma Services for a population of approximately 300,000. The orthopaedic wards at Royal Alexandra Hospital are located the main building in close proximity to the theatres and ITU. Inpatient facilities for both trauma and elective work are based here.
There are two laminar flow theatres for Elective Orthopaedic work. There are two trauma theatres at Royal Alexandra Hospital also located in the main theatre suite and are available for the management of Orthopaedic and soft tissue trauma, one theatre is available seven days a week with the other working Monday to Friday. Day surgery sessions for Orthopaedics are available at Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria.
The Orthopaedic Unit at Royal Alexandra Hospital has a connection with West of Scotland Deanery and also holds a Teaching Hospital status.
The Senior Clinical Fellow will work as part of a Consultant Team undertaking inpatient, outpatient orthopaedic and on-call trauma duties including operative management at a Mid-Grade grade level.
1. Management of Elective & Trauma patients.
2. On-Call 1st on receiving for the Clyde Sector Trauma Unit as part of the West of Scotland Trauma Network based with in the Trauma Assessment Unit (TAU) of the RAH. Referrals from Emergency Dept, and General Practice. Non resident on-call overnight.
3. Elective & Trauma Theatre duties as required including independent operating as appropriate.
4. Orthopaedic Clinic & Fracture Clinic duties as required including management, vetting and independent running of same.
5. Daily ward rounds of trauma and elective patients
6. Timely dictation of patient discharge letters/documentation for G.P.'s.
7. Participate in the Unit Educational Programme
Trainees have an excellent opportunity to see the management of the whole range of Elective Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery.
There are daily Trauma review meetings and weekly formal post-op metalwork reviews in the Trauma Hub on the RAH site with access remotely via MS Teams.
At the present time there are regular departmental educational meetings each week.
There are daily trauma meetings and rounds held at the RAH site where all the admissions from the last 24 hours are discussed. You will be expected to attend the monthly audit meetings with the expectation of presenting one of your audits within your employment. Morbidity & Mortality meetings run monthly following Audit as part of departmental clinical governance. Cases are prepared and presented by the respective team’s middle grade.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.