Speciality Doctor in Trauma & Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialty Doctor on a full-time basis based at NSECH and supporting the delivery of our trust wide service.

The Northumbria Trauma and Orthopaedic (T&O) Spinal Surgery Fellowship offers an excellent opportunity for a post-FRCS senior trainee to gain fellowship experience of various T&O subspecialities and Spinal Surgery. The post will provide extensive clinical and surgical experience in the field of elective adult Orthopaedic Surgery, General Trauma and Degenerative Spinal Disease. The large geographical catchment provides a wide variation in patients presenting with complex pathologies.

We are currently advertising for a 18 month fixed term post, commencing in August 2026.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

The fellow will work within a Trauma and Orthopaedic department of 32 consultants and 4 fellows who are all keen to improve practice - successfully developing and adopting numerous quality and cost improvement projects. The fellow will be expected to support the Orthopaedic Trauma rota at NSECH, potentially including on-call participation, as well as elective Orthopaedic surgery. The successful candidate will rotate through a number of T&O subspecialities including spine surgery.

In addition to this, the successful candidate will be expected to introduce a program to further improve care for these patients. The improvement project will include designing and launching the improvement program and measuring and reporting progress. There is also a strong research pedigree within the department, and the successful candidate will be expected to proactively engage with and complete a research project within the Spine department.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Cyrus Jensen Job title: Consultant Spinal Surgeon Email address: ***email_hidden***