HSE Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics Surgery in Munster Region - Republic of Ireland on a fixed term / permanent basis; working for our client via Workplace Doctors

*** Must have IMC (Specialist Division) Registration (Irish Medical Council) - Essential
*** Location: Republic of Ireland – Munster Region (Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford)
***Speciality: Surgery: Trauma & Orthopaedics Surgeon

*** Role: Consultant (6+ years post graduate experience)

*** Duration: 12 months (FREE visa & work permit + relocation package offered)

*** Start date: ASAP

***IELTS Score of 7.0 Overall (minimum) – Essential

***Exact location details provided on application

*** Pay rate: €217,235 to €261,051 Euro’s (dependent on experience) basic salary (allowances paid extra)

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Overview

Our University hospital client is looking for an Orthopaedic Surgeon to complement their current arthroplasty service and to take part in the trauma rota (currently 1 in 9). This is a substantive / fixed term Orthopaedic Consultant post attracting 12.5 Pa’s .Minimum fixed term of 12 months

Please note that full IMC registration and license to practice is an essential for this role. If you do not currently have IMC registration, but you are in the process of applying, please use the supporting information section of the application form to provide an update about the status of your IMC application.

Candidates without IMC registration at the time of shortlisting will not be considered- as per hospital requirements.

Additional Information

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for the Republic of Ireland. The basic salary range for this post is euros €217,235 to €261,051 Euro’s per annum plus a further euro 26,672 per annum available in Commitment Awards.

The Orthopaedic Department

The Orthopaedic Department is part of the Surgical Services Directorate, which is itself part of the Surgical Division, within the University Hospital. The hospital offer orthopaedic services to people living in the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford. Whilst the service is based in one hospital site, most of our surgeons have clinics +/- theatre in community hospitals in the region.

Most orthopaedic conditions are treated in house with specialist spinal services referred to the regional trauma centre. There are currently 10 orthopaedic surgeons, 3 upper limb, 2 foot and ankle, 4 hip and knee surgeons and 1 Spinal/Paediatrics. The hospital undertakes most facets of orthopaedic surgery including revision surgery.

They have an 20 bed “Infection-free” ward for elective Orthopaedics. Hospital-acquired MRSA rates are at an all-time low. Almost all in-patients for elective surgery are admitted on the day through the Surgical Admissions Unit, adjacent to the theatre suite, and are transferred to the ward post operatively. In addition, there is a 20 bed Day Case Unit as part of the theatre complex.

There are three ultra-clean air laminar flow theatres. Two are dedicated orthopaedic theatres and one is used for Trauma, Orthopaedics and by other specialties. There are 6 further theatres.

The hospital has been designated a Trauma Unit with the Regional Trauma Centre. The Department cares for head and spinal injuries, with CT/MR scans, where patients are transferred if surgery is required. The Trauma ward has 24 beds

Paediatric patients are nursed on a dedicated children’s ward and admitted under joint care with the paediatricians. The paediatric consultants are resident on-call.

The Orthopaedic Out-Patient Suite includes a plaster room and orthotic service. There is an anaesthetist-led, nurse-run pre-operative assessment clinic.

We have dedicated musculo-skeletal radiology support including Ultrasound, CT & MRI.

Trauma

The Department runs a rolling “Trauma Week” timetable, with the trauma week commencing on a Friday evening. The duty Consultant is responsible for all trauma admissions and is on call over the weekend (with 1 trauma list but no scheduled clinics). Monday to Friday the Consultant runs the morning Trauma Meeting, carries out a ward round, followed by the Emergency Clinic which starts at 10.00 am, (although we are currently trialling a differing model of fracture clinic delivery). The Consultant is also responsible for the PM Trauma List.

During the “Trauma Week”, all the duty Consultant’s elective clinics and theatre lists are cancelled. Monday to Thursday evening on-call duties are covered by colleagues on a 1 in 9 rota.

Specific Duties

The appointed Consultant will be responsible for the medical care of their patients and will be allocated duties and responsibilities depending on their experience.

The appointed Consultant activity will be a ratio of outpatient and surgical operative responsibilities relevant to the needs of the individual and organisation.

Medical audit, ownership of the Trust’s quality targets and continuing postgraduate education is a mandatory part of the post. Study leave (up to 30 days in three years) will be available to enable the post holder to attend meetings and courses in keeping with CME requirements and subject to the conditions of the Hospital’s Medical Study Leave Policy.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake managerial duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of the Clinical Department. Adequate office space and secretarial support will be made available.

For 8 weeks out of every 9 you will run an elective practice. Initially, the hospital are looking for you to have a general workload but developing your lower limb practice, focusing on the hip. Ideally, you would provide a comprehensive arthroplasty practice including complex primary. They would hope you would support the revision hip service currently run by two Consultant Surgeons.

Every 9th week you will do a “Trauma Week”, as outlined above. You will also take part in the Monday to Thursday night on-call rota, which is currently 1 in 8. This is non-resident and runs from 1800-0800 each night.

There is a further, flexible 0.5 SPA.

One of your SPA’s is designated for education & training. You will be expected to teach and assess medical students, foundation doctors and specialty trainees. The other 1.5 SPA’s are to be used for some or all of the following:

·       Audit

·       Research

·       Continuing Professional Development

·       Internal committees linked to T&O

·       Monthly evening Consultant meeting, usually the third Thursday

·       Monthly Departmental Meeting, usually the fourth Tuesday

·       Teaching para-medical and non-clinical staff

·       Participating in appraisal and job planning

Teaching Commitments

·       regular commitments to ward based teaching of undergraduates.

·       participation in the lecture programmes for 2^nd and 4^th & 5^th year medical students.

·       teaching of other groups as required including other specialty juniors and specialist nurses.

Job Plan

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee, the Operational Medical Director and Lead Surgery Consultant, on behalf of the Trust’s Medical Director, based on the provisional timetable. This will be signed by the Chief Executive and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment.

It will be reviewed at 3 months & thereafter annually or at any time, but no less than 3 months after a previous review, as requested by the appointee, Operational Medical Director or Clinical Lead & adjusted accordingly to the agreement of both parties.

The job plan equates to 12.5 PA’s plus an additional 5% on call supplement. The 12.5 PA’s break down to 9 Direct Clinical Care and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activity. The extra 1.5 DCC PA’s are not mandatory but 2 other consultants are on 11.5 PA contracts by mutual agreement

 Summary of Activities:

Draft Timetable (subject to discussion)

Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) Programmed Activities

It is expected that most consultants within the Trust will have 2.5 PA’s for Supporting Professional

Activities (SPA).

1.5 SPA’s are “core” in order to support the requirements for revalidation including participating in

audit, CPD and mandatory training.

Up to a further 1 PA will be available for SPA by mutual agreement as part of the job planning process for further appropriate verifiable SPA. This is granted for the first 12 months. If a consultant decides not to undertake enough additional SPA either suitable alternative DCC PA’s are offered or the overall PA’s will be reduced.

Some of the SPA will be expected to be delivered flexibly and you will not always be expected to be present on Trust Property. However, there will be some dedicated SPA time within the agreed job plan. This is time you are expected to be available to The Trust.

Standard Duties and responsibilities

a) To participate in development of and undertake all duties and functions pertinent to the Consultant’s area of competence, as set out within the Clinical Directorate Service Plan  and in line with policies as specified by the Employer.

b) To ensure that duties and functions are undertaken in a manner that minimises delays for patients and possible disruption of services.

c) To work within the framework of the hospital / agency’s service plan and/or levels of service (volume, types etc.) as determined by the Employer. Service planning for individual clinical services will be progressed through the Clinical Directorate structure or other arrangements as apply.

d) To co-operate with the expeditious implementation of the Disciplinary Procedure 

e) To formally review the execution of the Clinical Directorate Service Plan with the Clinical Director / Employer periodically. The Clinical Directorate Service Plan shall be reviewed periodically at the request of the Consultant or Clinical Director / Employer. The Consultant may initially seek internal review of the determinations of the Clinical Director regarding the Service Plan.

f) To participate in the development and operation of the Clinical Directorate structure and in such management or representative structures as are in place or being developed. The Consultant shall receive training and support to enable him/her to participate fully in such structures.

g) To provide, as appropriate, consultation in the Consultant’s area of designated expertise in respect of patients of other Consultants at their request.

h) To ensure in consultation with the Clinical Director that appropriate medical cover is available at all times having due regard to the implementation of the European Working Time Directive as it relates to doctors in training.

i) To supervise and be responsible for diagnosis, treatment and care provided by non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHDs) treating patients under the Consultant’s care.

j) To participate as a right and obligation in selection processes for non-Consultant Hospital Doctors and other staff as appropriate. The Employer will provide training as required. The Employer shall ensure that a Consultant representative of the relevant specialty / sub-specialty is involved in the selection process. 

k) To participate in clinical audit and proactive risk management and facilitate production of all data/information required for same in accordance with regulatory, statutory and corporate policies and procedures.

l) To participate in and facilitate production of all data/information required to validate delivery of duties and functions and inform planning and management of service delivery

Essential Requirements

This post is open to doctors who hold Registration as a Specialist in the Specialist Division of the Registrar of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of Surgery: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Office Accommodation

The post holder will undertake administrative work associated with their clinical and other professional duties.  Adequate time and facilities for clinical administration, including appropriate office space, secretarial support and access to a personal computer, software & internet access, will be available.

Service Provision and Cover during Absences

The consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and for the proper functioning of the service allowing for appropriate delegation for the training of his/her staff.

He/she must be available by telephone and able to attend the hospital in a timely fashion when on-call (40 minutes journey time).

Consultant staff must ensure that services are covered during his/her planned absences. Where fixed commitments need to be cancelled during planned absences appropriate notice (8 weeks) must be given. Absences must be co-ordinated with other consultant staff in the specialty to ensure senior cover is always available.

Management Responsibility

All Consultants are required to attend the monthly Directorate Meetings. Post holders will be expected to share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate. As part of the Consultant Team, the consultant  will offer mentoring support and lead the existing clinical team through; joint clinics, one-to-one support, individual case management and complex cases, identifying development needs and suggesting CPD (Continuous Professional Development) opportunities and responding to clinical enquiries via e-mail and telephone.

If you are interested in working in growing your career and increasing your income, then talk to our healthcare team today. If you can fill the above requirements, we will give you the following benefits:

*** Visa & Work Permit for FREE!

*** Guidance, Training & Career Development

*** Dedicated & Supportive team- Consultant available when you need.

*** Excellent Basic Pay, Overtime paid for extra hours
***Assistance provided with relocation

We look forward to helping you progress your career and find you the ideal position.

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The hospital welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion- essentially the applicant must meet the criteria mentioned above

Call us today on +44 (0) 1234 889213 to discuss this vacancy or email your CV to info@workplacedoctors.co.uk  or apply online today (see below).

***Please note due to the high number of applications, we do answer every application in turn.***