Senior Fellow in Lower Limb Arthroplasty

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Senior Fellow in Lower Limb Arthroplasty

The closing date is 13 July 2025

The Northumbria Lower Limb Arthroplasty Revision fellowship offers an excellent opportunity for a post FRCS senior trainee to gain fellowship experience in hip and knee primary and in particular revision arthroplasty in our busy arthroplasty unit. We perform over two and half thousand primary joint replacements per year, and are the busiest revision arthroplasty unit in the region. The fellow will join our team of five surgeons for a one year fellowship, with attachment to one senior consultant per six months.

We are advertising a 12 month fixed term contract for the periods August 2027-28, and August 2028-29.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early once a suitable number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post will consist of mainly elective and acute arthroplasty, with an option to join the middle grade on call rota (1 in 10 for trauma daytime work alongside the designated consultant). A weekly revision arthroplasty list is a key part of the post, allowing exposure to a large volume of revision cases, and the chance to work alongside all 8 of our revision surgeons. The remainder of the week is filled with elective clinic and theatre sessions, and the revision arthroplasty MDT and complex clinic.

Our unit has a strong track record for clinical improvement. We run one of the leading daycase arthroplasty NHS services in the UK, lead nationally in hip fracture care, and host one of the few bone and joint infection units in the UK. The fellow will be expected to design and implement a clinical improvement project. We support application by the fellow to the BOA future leaders programme.

Candidates should be GMC registered and hold the MBBS or equivalent medical qualification, MRCS (essential) or FRCS (T&O) (desirable) qualifications with one of the Surgical Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information in relation to the role.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCS
• Eligible for full GMC registration
• On track to be ST8 or equivalent by time of fellowship
• Be on the specialist register in Trauma and Orthopaedics by time of fellowship
• Completion of all appropriate workplace assessments.
• FRCS (T&O) with one of the Surgical Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£61,542 to £99,216 a yearpro rata per annum