Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery

Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery

The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.

The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary's provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary's site. S/he will also be responsible for managing the six-weekly Elective Mass Hip clinic.

The post is across-site (SMH/CXH/HH) but the on-call commitment is off-site for Charing Cross Hospital with the other senior fellows (plus senior cover for St Mary's if an ST3 is on call or in cases where emergency cover is required). Approximately every 5 months you will also have an SpR of the week on-call commitment at St Mary's. The job banding is 1B with London allowance.

Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Mary's and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery post from April 2026 for 6 or 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The fellow will divide his/her time between clinical work, inpatient and outpatients, (75%) and research/interventional nephrology (25%). There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate's preferences and interest. The appointed fellow will alternate between 9 weeks of clinical work and 3 weeks of research/intervention/management time- according to the fellows needs.

The fellow will divide his/her time between outpatient clinics, inpatient cover and both independent and supervised theatre sessions. This will include a number of hip arthroplasty elective lists as well as pelvic and acetabular trauma lists. There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate's preferences and interest.

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Job responsibilities

Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Marys and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery for 6 to 12 months. The successful Fellow will be based predominantly at Charing Cross Hospital and work with all the hip arthroplasty surgeons rather than be attached to one surgeon.

The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.

The Major Trauma Centre at St Marys provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Marys site.

The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.

Person Specification Qualifications

• GMC registration with license to practice by commencement of the post
• FRS (or equivalent)

Language

• Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements

Relevant Experience in Specialty/Sub Specialty

• Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description

Academic Achievements including Research/Publications

• Prior involvement in research at any level

Audit

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit
• Prior involvement in or completion of audit projects

Clinical Skills

• Appropriate to job description

Teaching & Training

• Exposure to teaching medical students and junior colleagues

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.

Depending on experience£44,170 - £67,610 per annum plus London Weighting Allowance