Orthopaedic Consultant x 2

NHS Highland is seeking to recruit two Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultants to join the department in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness. This post is offered on the new Consultant Contract terms and conditions of service.

The City of Inverness is the Capital of the Highlands and enjoys a unique and enviable lifestyle and environment. Raigmore is a modern District General Hospital with 500 beds and a catchment area of almost 10,000 square miles covering the entire Scottish Highlands.

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery comprises 19 Consultants. The 2 advertised posts have become available due to retirement of the previous post holders. The provision of the service to a large geographical area requires a particularly flexible and imaginative approach by a team of enthusiastic and dedicated Consultants. This post will participate in an on-call rota for trauma along with provision of elective services in primary lower limb arthroplasty. An additional subspecialty that complements the requirements of the department would be favourable (Soft tissue knee and/or Knee revision surgery). The Department has Speciality Registrars rotating from the North of Scotland rotation and there is a regular attachment of Medical Students from Aberdeen University. In addition to work in Raigmore Hospital, the successful applicants will have opportunity to work in the recently opened National Treatment Centre Highland which caters for a large proportion of primary lower limb arthroplasty and other orthopaedic elective services.

Raigmore Hospital is the principal DGH providing undergraduate teaching for the University of Aberdeen and the Inverness ScotGem postgraduate medical degree course. The UHI house (former Centre for Health Science) and clinical skills centre has an extensive up-to-date library to support this commitment.  Good links exist with the Highlands and Islands Research Institute.

Applicants must be on the Specialist Register or within six months of the anticipated award of a CCT at the time of interview for the post.

Informal enquiries will be welcomed by: Mr Christian Michels, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery (secretary) or christian.michels@nhs.scot

Job reference: 196508

Closing date: Midnight Wednesday 9^th October 2024

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.