Job Description

The Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics has the following facilities: Seven T&O wards (QE 2, Heartlands 2, Good Hope 2, Solihull 1) Twelve dedicated T&O operating theatres (QE 3, Heartlands 3, Good Hope 3, Solihull 3) Access to ambulatory care unit and day case theatres Access to beds in the hospital's Critical Care Units Full imaging services, including MRI scanning units. Full out-patient facilities with electronic patient records *Full post-graduate training facilities Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals deliver a range of trauma and elective services with an extensive catchment area. Heartlands hospital is a trauma unit and delivers the largest fragility fracture service in Europe. Solihull Hospital is being transformed into an elective care centre with 6 new theatres due to open in July 2024.



Good Hope hospital currently provides an elective service and a delivers a high volume of complex arthroplasty. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham was designated a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) on 26 March 2012, leading to an increase in emergency work to the department. The QE site already has special expertise in the management of all forms of trauma and is role 4 for the repatriation of military personnel as we work closely with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM). In addition to providing an emergency service to the Greater Birmingham area and the RCDM, the unit deals with the full range of post trauma and trauma related patients and elective orthopaedic procedures, with staffing as follows: 42 equivalent whole time Consultant posts 7 Specialist Surgeons Resident Medical staff support the service workload.



The Trauma & Orthopaedics service has a robust team of MSK Radiologists and general radiology support to the major trauma service. There is 24/7 access to CT, interventional radiology and MRI. All theatres lists are normally supported by Consultant Anaesthetists. The service is supported by physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, psychologists and social work support.



Pivotal to the service is the role of Trauma Nurse Practitioners For more information about this role, please see the attached .