Consultant Rheumatologist

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

This is a 10PA replacement post in our Connective Tissue Disease Service. The appointee will join our team with a view to contributing to our local and regional CTD and vasculitis MDT, supporting our specialised commissioned services and regional advice provision. The successful applicant will have a demonstrable interest in CTD and vasculitis and have sufficient experience to support our MDT. We are keen to support applicants who now or in the future wish to develop an interest in medical education. You may have a formal qualification in teaching or have significant evidence of experience/interest in this area with a view to undertaking such a qualification in future. 

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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•    The successful candidate will share responsibility for running and ensuring best practice in our connective tissue disease and vasculitis service.
•    This will include supervision and training of junior doctors, clinical nurse specialists, clinical pharmacists, and AHP
•    Active contribution to the local and regional CTD MDT
•    Provision of long term care to an existing cohort of patients with connective tissue disorders and associated co-morbidities.
•    Contribute medical support to the team overseeing our infusion unit and ensure training and safety standards are met. Set up regular audit and quality improvement cycles. 
•    Once established in the clinical role to look to develop the departments engagement and participation with teaching across the medical undergraduate and graduate curriculum and support supervision and clinical oversight of AHP and nursing departmental teaching.

We would welcome enquires for an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and medical board, please contact: Dr Elizabeth Kidd or Dr Alice Lorenzi on 0191 2137967, or via email at [email protected] or [email protected]. 

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.