Junior Resident - Major Trauma | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust


Interested in working in a Major Trauma Centre? Experience at the country's busiest Major Trauma Centre is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills.

We are currently recruiting to our Junior Fellow posts here at the QMC Major Trauma Centre. We have positions available from the 6th of August 2026 for 12 months.

Applicants need to be motivated and with a keen interest in the management of Major Trauma patients. Good communication skills are essential as is the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary professional team across a number of different specialties.

As a centre of excellence in the treatment of Major Trauma, the Queen's Medical Centre is a single site multi-specialty hospital, optimised for the provision of trauma care. It is the primary receiving hospital of the East Midlands Trauma Network and manages all types of injuries, providing a 24 hour consultant led service.

The Major Trauma Consultant and multi-professional team co-ordinate the pathway of care for people with severe trauma injuries. Rehabilitation is commenced as early in the pathway as possible to maximise functional outcomes for the patient.













Key Job Objectives
• To enhance your knowledge and understanding of:
Immediate lifesaving interventions by attending and participating in trauma calls in resus.
• Interpreting initial investigations quickly including blood gas, X ray and CT results in resus.
• Liaising with other members of the trauma team, from all different specialties and documenting findings and plans in the Major Trauma admissions documentation
• The main elements of a trauma call including how these should be coordinated and documented.
• The management of multi system trauma















Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is the country’s fourth largest acute teaching trust. It was established on 1 April 2006 following the merger of Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre. We established the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre (MTC) at NUH on April 1st 2012.


We provide acute and specialist services to 2.5 million people within Nottingham and surrounding communities from the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and the City Hospital campuses. We have an annual budget in excess of £682m of public sector funding and employ over 13,000 staff. As an MTC, NUH is a multi-specialty hospital, on a single site, optimised for the provision of trauma care. It is the focus of the Trauma Network and manages all types of injuries, providing consultant-level care.

Objectives

To enhance your knowledge and understanding of:
• Immediate life saving interventions by attending and participating in trauma calls in resus.
• Interpreting initial investigations quickly including blood gas, X ray and CT results in resus.
• Being part of the liaising with other members of the trauma team, from all different specialties and documenting findings and plans in the Major Trauma admissions documentation
• The main elements of a trauma call including how these should be coordinated and documented.
• The management of multi system trauma

To become more skilled in:
• Primary and secondary surveys of Major Trauma patients in resus.
• Tertiary surveys on day 2 of admission.
• Participating in the daily ward round
• The pre-operative assessment of patients with multiple injuries.
• The appropriate use of monitoring in level 1 beds and interpretation of data obtained
• Liaising with the multi professional team in interpreting data for different team members and planning ongoing care.
• The provision of safe and effective care including pain relief to patients undergoing all required surgical procedures.
• The safe and effective use of postoperative pain management to ensure that rehabilitation can be carried out effectively.
• Leading planning of ongoing care and reconstruction phase of the Major Trauma patients’ in patient pathway.
• Surgery lists as required for Major trauma damage limitation and ongoing care surgery.

Research and Academic Requirements

Participation in audit and research is expected. As part of the clinical fellowship you will be required to attend morbidity / mortality meetings.

Teaching

You will be expected to take an active part in the departmental rolling teaching programme, both of the Junior Fellow post holders and medical students.

CPD

The post-holder will be expected to be committed to Continuing Professional Development. The Trust will provide study leave and funding in accordance with the current Trust study leave policy.


This advert closes on Friday 27 Mar 2026

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