Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

The closing date is 01 April 2026.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon to enhance emergency and trauma care services for both children and adults. The Paediatric Orthopaedic unit serves both the local Tooting population and a wider tertiary group, working closely with neonatal, paediatric, and intensive care teams. It supports four network trusts-Croydon, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Ashford and St Peter's, and Kingston-through outreach clinics and collaboration with local teams, children's centres, and special needs schools.

Surgical procedures are currently performed at St George's, with plans to expand day surgery to network sites. Clinics include general paediatric orthopaedics, Spina Bifida (with neurosurgery and urology), neurodevelopmental orthopaedics, and complex spinal deformities. A skeletal dysplasia MDT involves paediatrics, genetics, radiology, endocrinology, and neonatology. The team also works closely with Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

The Trauma & Orthopaedic department leads poly trauma cases and manages patients in a dedicated trauma unit. Trauma care is consultant led on a rotational basis, with weekend double cover. The Major Trauma Centre operates a 7-day consultant model, offering valuable experience alongside specialist surgeons.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to fulfil their clinical and managerial responsibilities as follows;

Elective Commitments and Clinical Duties

The post holder will be contracted for 10 programmed activities per week. 9 PA will be direct clinical commitment including major trauma on-call week (at present 1:21), out of hours on-call (at present 1:15), outpatients, MDT and operating lists and related administrative activity including telephone clinics as required.

1 PA is allocated for supporting activities including the completion of non-clinical administrative work, work needed for participation in national registries and other local administration.

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Job responsibilities

It is expected that the post holder will complete their supporting activity through attendance at the care groups operational management meeting, the orthopaedic clinical governance meeting (including presenting on morbidity and mortality) and through teaching commitments. Where these activities are timetabled to occur at the same time as other programmed activities the post holder will ensure that appropriate and timely arrangements are made to enable their attendance.

The Trust and the post holder may expect of each other that appropriate time is set aside for audit, appraisal and personal CPD and the post holder can expect reasonable professional leave in support of CPD and specialty development. The Trust has the required arrangements in place to ensure that all surgeons have an annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and supports surgeons going through the revalidation process and Mentoring by the CGL.

Surgical working requires good team working. The role of each Consultant is intended to be as an equal senior to other Consultants in the Department and in the Trust. The RCS supports measures to ensure that a new appointee should be appointed on a similar footing to other Consultants within the department.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full registration with GMC
• Postgraduate medical qualification -FRCS (T&O) or equivalent
• On UK Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT / CESR
• ATLS or equivalent
• Higher qualification e.g. PhD / MD / MSc

Knowledge

• Ability to take full and independent clinical responsibility
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for UK CCST
• Experience of working in a major trauma unit

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability and willingness to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Education: Demonstrable skills in Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
• Audit & Research: proven track record of high quality research, audit, presentations and peer reviewed publications
• Managerial: Working knowledge of the current NHS structure
• Quality improvement: evidence of an understanding of QI and active involvement in QI projects and improved outcomes as a result
• Managerial: evidence of understanding the principles of service development and business planning
• Research Publication
• Quality improvement: evidence of active involvement in QI projects and improved outcomes as a result
• Commitments to and enthusiasm for the development of services at St George's Hospital and partner Trusts within the Network
• Commitment to own learning and development and evidence of participation in appraisal and reflective practice
• Evidence of commitment to the priorities and values of the trust and of an understanding of the Governance framework within the trust

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.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust