Substantive Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics (Knee Surgeon)

A Vacancy at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a direct replacement job for a departing substantive colleague.

Wearelookingtorecruitadynamicsurgeonwith a sub-specialist interestinknee surgery.Electively the role is split betweenprovision of knee (full and partial)arthroplastyand soft tissue surgery. From a trauma point of view the successful candidate is expected to competently manage periprosthetic fractures around the knee and also ligamentous injury

The outpatient service for this service is a multidisciplinary clinic with input from physiotherapy, podiatry, radiology and sports and exercise medicine consultants and registrars. This service has grown over the past 24 months and the work associated with these clinics has led to a greater demand for our services.

Within a 10 PA job plan, thepostwillbebasedprimarilyatHomerton University Hospital and the post-holder will have the following core responsibilities:

· Soft tissue knee surgery, including osteotomies around the knee. Any prior experience with patella-femoral pathologies /Pediatric / adolescent knee surgery will be an advantage

· Support the provision of high volume Knee arthroplasty with expected provision of partial knee and complex primary knee replacement

· Support the development of the robotic knee replacement service and fellowship level training is desirable in either a robotic or navigated knee platform.

· General trauma provision at a DGH but subspecialty knee competence is essential for 1) peri-prosthetic+ intra-articular fractures 2) Acute ligamentous injury in both the paediatric and adult population

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 500 beds providing acute and community health services for Hackney, The City and surrounding communities and also provides a range of specialist services for a much wider population.

We provide general hospital and community services to Hackney and the City of London, and specialist care in obstetrics, neonatology, foetal medicine, fertility, bariatric surgery and neuro rehabilitation across east London and beyond.

As a Foundation Trust, Homerton has greater freedom from the Department of Health to enable it to be more responsive to local healthcare needs and have greater accountability to the patients and public it serves.

The principal purpose of the Trust remains to provide goods and services for the purposes of the health service in England, and has a duty to do this effectively, efficiently and economically.

The Trust comprises of Homerton Hospital in Hackney and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home, situated in Shoreditch as well as Hackney and the City Community Health Services.

The trust is one of three within the North East London ICB including Barts Health NHS Trust and Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust (BHRUT). It has a long-standing relationship with its local GPs within the City & Hackney Partnership. Joint-working has led to a number of initiatives across a range of specialities with a focus on improving the integration and quality of services and remains a major trust priority

The standard jobplan isannualisedwithatotalof10

PA’s(DCC&SPA)including a1

10trauma surgeons of the week on-call commitment. The job plan follows a rolling 1-4 pattern.

The post will be based in the Trauma and Orthopaedics department. The primary purpose of the role will be to support elective and trauma clinical sub-specialty activitywithadegreeofflexibilityexpecteddependingonthepreciserequirements, which can vary from time to time.

The post holder will perform independent outpatient clinics and will be allocated sufficient admin time to independently manage the output from these clinics. The post-holderwillhaveaccesstotheatrewithsessionsannualisedtoallowtheability to cover vacant lists within the proposed working days, and their job plan will be such as to allow sufficient freedom to provide such cover.

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jun 2026

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