Job Description

Locum Rheumatology Consultant

Hours per week-10 programmed activities per week

Perm/Fixed Term - Permanent

Salary-84,559 - 114,003 Per annum

Part time applicants are welcome.

Closing date: 20th Oct 2023

Interview Date: TBC

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Main duties of the job

The purpose of this role is to support and further develop the Rheumatology service and to provide senior decision making to ensure optimal and early review of patients. The Department of Rheumatology is being reconfigured with the aim of strengthening and expanding our workforce and service in order that our patients are provided with high quality clinical care in partnership with all specialties within the Division of Medicine. We are supported in this by our Divisional Managers, with whom we have excellent working relationships.

Applicants should see this opening as an opportunity to be part of the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust\'s drive to innovate for the development of improved services for the benefit of our local community.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to \'excel at patient care\' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, on-site discounted gym, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job description
Job responsibilities

This is a full-time post for a pure Consultant Rheumatologist (10.0 PA).

The appointee will work in collaboration with the other Rheumatologist in the Trust. This will be delivering outpatient Rheumatology services to the local population serviced by the George Eliot Hospital Trust, to share facilities and provide continuity to patients, staff and deliver high standards of care. Specific duties will include 5 out-patient clinics per week, with a template of 3 news and 6 follow up patients. The number of clinics required per year will be annualised. An Early Arthritis clinic is delivered at the base hospital, with Dr Saravana leading on this as an area of specialist interest and the infusion service.

A major focus for the department is expanding its ultrasound scanning abilities and training the specialist nurses and Doctor(s) to focus on inflammatory arthritis with the team in collaboration with Local university links and on site mentors within the Radiology department.

There are monthly Rheumatology team meetings and a new biological weekly MDTs is in the process of being arranged with the teams dedicated Rheumatology Pharmacist, Clinical Nurse Specialists and physiotherapy team to which service development SPA is allocated in the job plan to assist in the development of this service. A special interest will be welcomed and encouraged to grow and advance the team and service. This is an opportunity for an innovative Consultant Rheumatologist who is ready for a new challenge and prepared to contribute to shaping the future of Rheumatology services at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

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Person Specification
Person specification
Essential

• MBBS (or equivalent) MRCP Intercollegiate or equivalent Entry on GMC Specialist Register via CCT (proposed CCT
• Thorough & broad training in adult rheumatology Teaching and commitment to education post- and under- graduate levels
• Able to demonstrate successful participation in audit Evidence of completed and published research Instigated, designed and completed audit projects and protocols
• Effective written (including record keeping) and verbal communication skills Other
• Fluent in verbal and written English Satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure and/or Certificate of Good Conduct (Police Check) from country of residence

• An appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)
• Higher qualification in education

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