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Senior Fellowship in Major Trauma & Acute Care Surgery | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 24 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £41,750 - £64,288 per annum plus London Weighting |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 March 2025 |
| Location: | London, W2 1NY |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7031960/290-TDPB-273 |
Summary
The London Trauma System went fully live across all four trauma networks in January 2011 at four Major Trauma Centres (MTCs), located at The Royal London Hospital (Whitechapel), King's College Hospital (Denmark Hill), St George's Hospital (Tooting) and St Mary's Hospital (Paddington). The networks are formally linked into areas adjacent to London, giving a total resident population served by the London Trauma System of 12 million people. In addition to this number there is a significant transient working commuter population (approximately 1.1 million people per day) and tourists.
Data from LAS demonstrates that the St Mary’s MTC consistently receives around 35% of all patients in London who trigger the Major Trauma Tool. The department is seeing now over 3000 trauma calls per annum, and around 700-800 patients in the most injured category (Injury Severity Score ISS>15). The unit was fundamental in managing trauma patients affected by the 2017 major incidents across London.
St Mary’s Major Trauma Service consists of Consultants drawn from general surgery, vascular, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and plastics services across Imperial, contributing to a Surgeon of the Week model. The service is supported by Consultants and Registrars from neurosurgery, cardiothoracic, anaesthetics, radiology, intensive care, plastics, vascular, general surgery, and visiting consultants from other specialist centres to support burns and maxillofacial requirements.
The role for the Fellow in Major Trauma will be to support the consultants and the Trauma Director in the delivery of the major trauma service and to provide expert clinical skills in leading the assessment and treatment of these patients.
The post holder will be expected to gain experience in the acute and ongoing management of severely injured patients. The aim is to allow the Fellow to become proficient in the evaluation of critically-ill and injured patients; the initiation of appropriate and complete diagnostic and treatment plans; the development and implementation of patient care plans; providing leadership which facilitates the interaction within the entire team of caregivers and with the patients and their families.
St Mary’s is one of only five MTCs nationally approved to host Major Trauma TIG fellowships. The Fellow post will follow the TIG syllabus and post-holders will be expected to achieve the same competencies as TIG fellows.
Fellows are expected to participate in research and will have time in their job plan to conduct academic activity. They are expected to deliver academic outputs such as papers and presentations. Fellows will be provided with a research mentor from among the faculty. Research mentors are assigned based on mutual areas of interest. The post holder will have a commitment to teach in the trauma unit and support Network wide education activities
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
To gain experience and become competent in the management of the trauma patient, particularly the management of penetrating and blunt trauma, whilst continuing emergency work in their base speciality.
To gain operative/clinical competencies at the management of the poly-trauma patients.
To undertake a research project during the fellowship period.
To participate in formal and informal teaching of junior doctors, medical and nursing students and paramedics.
Daytime commitments
ICU & Major Trauma Ward multidisciplinary ward round
Attendance at trauma calls
Prioritise and organise trauma operating
Experience in emergency neuro-surgical theatres
Attendance at multi-disciplinary trauma follow-up clinic
On-call commitments
Attendance at out of hours trauma calls penetrating, code red and at the discretion of the Trauma Team Leader.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025