Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics

Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics

Closing date: 24 June 2026.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics. Successful candidates will join a team of 10 surgeons, specialising in knee arthroplasty, across three hospital sites in Worcestershire.

Interested candidates may contact Usman Ahmed at usman.ahmed@nhs.net to discuss the opportunity.

Job responsibilities

• Provide elective knee clinics at Alexandra Hospital, Redditch.
• Undertake a regular knee operating list at Alexandra Hospital, with access to dual‑consultant operating and support for complex/revision cases.
• Run a regular day‑case arthroscopy/soft‑tissue knee list at the KTC site.
• Contribute to the trauma rota and support the delivery of lower limb trauma surgery.
• Participate in multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) working, including knee MDT and complex case discussions.
• Provide a clinical service to patients of the Trust and to general practitioners.
• Attend multi‑disciplinary meetings and work within multi‑disciplinary teams to deliver high‑quality clinical care.
• Support the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely, appropriate care and patient flow.
• Provide consultation and advisory services to clinical colleagues in the Trust and primary care.
• Attend cross‑county and cross‑site meetings.
• Collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high‑quality, timely service and meet the Trust’s objectives.
• Participate in the on‑call rota to ensure emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, shared equally with consultant colleagues.
• Attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary and to undertake patient reviews during weekend on‑call duties.

Person Specification

Experience

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Knees.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within the specialty.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients.
• Expertise in sub‑specialty.

Teaching Experience

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Knee (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via:
• – CCT or CESR (CP)
• – CESR or
• – European Community Rights.

Management & Administrative Experience

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the specialist service.
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities.
• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi‑disciplinary team.
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit.
• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate.
• Ability to use evidence‑based clinical audit to support decision making.

Research Experience

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• An awareness of current specialty‑specific developments and initiatives.
• Publications in relevant peer‑reviewed journals in the last 5 years.
• Evidence of having undertaken original research.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary.

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