T&O Chief Registrar | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Dependent on Experience |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Company: | North Bristol NHS |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7206846/339-NMSK6846-MJA |
Summary
The chief registrar role is a leadership role for senior specialty trainees. The role provides 40-50% protected time to develop and implement local initiatives focusing on, for example, service improvement, engagement and morale, education and training, workforce and sustainability.
The chief registrar job description is broad in scope in order to allow chief registrars and recruiting organisations to have autonomy and flexibility over the work the chief registrar undertakes. Chief registrars should focus on addressing key local challenges and priorities, which may include some or all of the following:
• Providing a ‘bridge’ between senior clinical leaders, managers and the wider trainee workforce to improve communication, engagement and morale.
• Service improvement, for example redesigning pathways, implementing new technology and establishing new services to improve flow and outcomes for patients.
• Improving the quality of clinical and non-clinical education and training activities, and supporting/mentoring other trainees to engage in quality improvement.
• Involvement in workforce planning and improving the deployment of trainees to meet service needs and improve morale.
• Improving efficiency and reducing waste.
• Working across teams and boundaries to engage stakeholders in quality improvement and influence change.
The appointment will be based within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust.
Orthopaedic services including elective procedures are provided at the Brunel Building at Southmead Hospital. The Brunel Building provides the main elective orthopaedic service for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and also hosts inpatient surgery for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Healthcare Trust. Five theatres run all day six days a week with 28 consultants operating here. The local catchment population is approximately 500,000 but specialist services are also offered more widely across the region.
The Trust is a regional center of Neurosurgery and Plastic Surgery. A tertiary referral service for the South West for pelvic and acetabular fractures and for spinal injuries and deformities is provided.
The chief registrar should attend departmental and divisional management meetings to gain an understanding of management and the wider social, political and economic influences on healthcare delivery.
Where possible and appropriate, they should attend Board meetings. They should lead any sessions on service development, improvement and transformation for which they have direct responsibility.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Jun 2025