Consultant Major Trauma and Emergency General Surgeon

Applications are invited for a substantive and a potential 12 month locum post of Consultant in Major Trauma and Emergency General Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. This post is based primarily at Queens Medical Centre.

The post holder will work alongside the other consultants within the Major trauma consultant team and other surgeons in the General and Vascular Surgery directorate.

The consultant will be responsible to the Head of Major trauma. The successful candidate will be expected to be within 6 months of their CCT at the time of interview and to have evidence of commitment to or experience of Major Trauma/EGS.

The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the out-patient and surgical treatment of patients within general surgery. Post-holders will be encouraged to develop a sub-specialty interest.

The Major Trauma component of the role will include running the Major Trauma service and joining the operating rota; this will be on a 1:8 basis including weekends and night care.

The Emergency General Surgery component of the role will include being responsible for the assessment and investigation of the surgical intake within the Surgical Triage Unit and delivering acute surgery to EGS patients; this will be on a 1:6 basis Monday-Thursday in day-time hours.