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Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with an Interest in Hand Surgery
NHS Lanarkshire - University Hospital Wishaw
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a consultant post with sub-specialty interest in Hand Surgery within the Trauma and Orthopaedic Service in NHS Lanarkshire.
Interview date: 21 March 2025
Main Duties of the Role
To provide inpatient and outpatient Orthopaedic services and to provide additional support to the Hand service
Working for our Organisation
NHS Lanarkshire is an exciting innovative health board to work for, serving a population of 650 000 with 3 acute hospitals. NHS Lanarkshire seeks to appoint a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with an interest in hand surgery to join our multidisciplinary team. The post would include a full commitment to adult and paediatric trauma in the Wishaw Trauma Unit which is part of the West of Scotland Major Trauma Network. The post also offers the opportunity to develop a full elective practice based at the other acute hospitals in Lanarkshire with a dedicated elective unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
The job is offered as a full-time post on a 10 PA basis (including up to 2 non-DCC) but applications will be considered from those wishing to work less than full-time. If full-time, up to 2 EPA’s may be available to undertake additional clinical activity.
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For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant on or via medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Informal enquiries should be directed to the Clinical Director of Orthopaedics Mr Kumar Periasamy, kumar.periasamy@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk or Service Manager Chris Swallow Christopher.swallow@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
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