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Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery ST3
2025 National Recruitment

The National Recruitment Office for ST3 Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery is NHS England - North East and Yorkshire (formerly HEE). We are recruiting to posts across England and Scotland. All posts have the required educational and Dean’s approval.

Applications will open at 10am on Thursday 14 November 2024 and will close at 4pm on Thursday 5 December 2024.  All interviews will take place online (dates tbc).  Applicants will submit one application electronically for all vacancies via the Oriel recruitment portal. A summary of the recruitment process is provided below. The 2025 Applicants Handbook will be uploaded prior to the application window.

The 2025 Self-Assessment Guidance and Weighting Document are now available to the right of this page. PLEASE NOTE: A question relating to the organisation of applicants' evidence has been added to the Self-Assessment form for 2025 recruitment. A maximum score of two points is available for this question; the maximum overall weighted score for the 2025 Self-Assessment is therefore 34. Please see the guidance and weighting document for details.

Further sources of information

Immigration ruling: With effect from 6 October 2019, all medical practictioners are on the Shortage Occupation List.  This means that with the exception of applicants to Public Health, all specialty recruitment applicants will be exempt from the RLMT and there will be no restriction on their employment.

Please be reminded that as per the 2025 Person Specification, ATLS (or equivalent) is not an essential requirement for application to ST3 Trauma & Orthopaedics in the current recruitment round.

Vacancies

For information about the posts in each region please follow the links below to view the Regional Office websites. Vacancies for each region will be listed below in due course.

PLEASE NOTE:- The number of preferences a candidate receives in Oriel may be different to the number of vacancies. This is because some preferences will have more than 1 vacancy.

Regional Office

Vacancies

East Midlands 

 

East of England 

 

North East 

 

North West (North West) 

 

North West (Mersey) 

 

NHS Education for Scotland 

 

South West (Peninsula)

 

South West (Severn)

 

LaSE London Recruitment 

 

LaSE Kent, Surrey & Sussex 

 

Thames Valley 

 

Wessex 

 

West Midlands 

 

Yorkshire and the Humber 

 

 

 

Recruitment Timeline

Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery ST3 2025 National Recruitment will follow the timeline below:

Activity

Date(s)

Applications open 10am on Thursday 14 November 2024
Application deadline 4pm on Thursday 5 December 2024
Self Assessment evidence upload tbc
Self Assessment Verification tbc
Self Assessment Appeals panel tbc
Interviews April 2025
Initial offers released           by 5pm on Tuesday 15 April 2025
Hold Deadline 1pm on Wednesday 23 April 2025
Upgrade Deadline 4pm on Thursday 24 April 2025

NB: All times and dates are indicative and subject to change

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