Job Description

*** Please contact Natalie Stephenson on 01756 702203 or email Natalie.Stephenson@Medacs.com ***
Role: Orthopaedic Consultant
Rates: 85 - 95p/h
Shifts: Ortho Hand Surgeon to cover full rota including theatre and clinics and 1:10 on calls
Location: Wales
Benefits:

• First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
• Competitive pay rates
• A dedicated placement officer
• Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
• Hundreds of new shifts available every day
• Long term jobs and short shifts available
• Lucrative referral scheme
• Revalidation support
• 24/7/365 support - we're here when you need us

Skilled Orthopaedic Surgeon with a Certificate Completion of Training (CCT) wanted for an exciting career opportunity.
Culture and inclusion
As a valued Consultant, your job satisfaction and happiness while at work is paramount. To make sure your time dedicated to helping others is the very best experience it can be.
Development and opportunities
As an Orthopaedic Consultant, you will be dedicated to imparting complex knowledge and championing skill enhancement throughout the departments, theatres, and clinics. Leading by example, you will encourage uptake for the wide range of development and support packages available, supporting and mentoring your fellow healthcare professionals in their continuous professional development.
A business with a future
Orthopaedics is a complex and varied speciality that calls for specialist skill in treating everything ranging from low energy fractures to multiple traumatic and catastrophic injuries such as those caused by a road traffic accident. You will be playing a significant role in meeting the needs of this specialised field of medicine.
Skills focus
As an Orthopaedic Consultant, you will be fundamental in developing, improving, and expanding the orthopaedic provision. Working alongside a cohesive team of dynamic, motivated, and progressive clinical professionals, you will play an active and hands-on role, contributing to both the emergency trauma and elective surgery services.
Patient focus
In your role as a Consultant, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how critical specialist skills and communication combine to transform lives and restore a patient with multiple fractures or who is losing their mobility and independence because of an arthritic hip to full functionality, enabling them to return to their normal daily activities.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as an Orthopaedic Consultant, you will have:

• Quick thinking abilities
• Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
• Excellent attention to detail
• A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
• Excellent timekeeping
• A pro-active approach to research and academia
• Empathy and understanding
• A flexible attitude
• A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
• Active listening skills

Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an Orthopaedic Consultant you will:

• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Coordinate treatment plans and prescribe various types of treatment.
• Provide constant monitoring and care for patients.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

• MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
• Hold CCT or CESR at the time of interview or in an established training programme and within six months of CCT
• Inclusion on GMC's Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT or CESR (CP) at interview.
• 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.

Culture and inclusion
So, if you are an experienced Consultant with the determination to ensure the highest standards of care are provided to all, apply today and be a part of the outstanding team.
Development and opportunities
If you are looking for a consultancy role within a Trust that continuously strives to achieve excellence, apply today and be a critical part of their comprehensive trauma and orthopaedic surgery service.
A business with a future
If you are ready to take up a consultancy position in a hospital that prides itself on the opportunities provided to staff and the care provided to patients, apply today, and enjoy access to hundreds of shifts, a dedicated Placement Officer and revalidation support.
Patient focus
So, if you are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes by combining skill and surgical expertise with your ability to teach, coach and mentor junior medical staff, we want to hear from you. Apply today.

Skills Required