Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
British Medical Journal
- Edgbaston, West Midlands
- £130,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
As a Consultant at Practice Plus Group you will have access to great facilities in a well-structured and relaxed environment. We perform high volumes of orthopaedic surgery in our unit and our length of stay averages for both hip and knee surgery are significantly below 2 days and we are growing our same day discharge arthroplasty pathways with our enhanced recovery programme. We would welcome a surgeon who is able to help to develop this. Our adjusted PROMs outcomes are consistently better than the national average. Our orthopaedic surgeons are part of the Practice Plus network of surgeons within our surgical units in England and are very much part of a large team with the opportunities for support and learning that this brings.Reporting to our Medical Director, you will perform a range of orthopaedic procedures on patients referred to the Hospital. You will be treating both NHS and private patients referred to the hospital, working in accordance with hospital protocols and working practices.As well as being able to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems in elective orthopaedic procedures from your substantive experience, you will required to perform surgical procedures on patients referred to the hospital, working in accordance with hospital protocols and working practices. These will include particularly Joint replacement operations, namely:
- Primary knee arthroplasty
- Primary hip uncemented, cemented & hybrid.
You will be required to demonstrate a high level of operative skill in the following areas:
- Primary hip replacement: demonstrable evidence in the NJR of having performed at least 150 hip replacement procedures
- Primary knee replacement: demonstrable evidence in the NJR of having performed at least 150 knee replacement procedures.