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West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
About
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in West Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire. As an employer of almost 6,000 people the trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.
Services are run over four sites: Watford General Hospital, St Albans City Hospital, Hemel Hempstead Hospital and an outpatients therapy unit at Abbots Langley. Watford General Hospital is at the heart of the Trust's acute emergency services - the core location for inpatient emergency care, and for all patients who need the specialist emergency facilities (such as intensive care) of a district general hospital. St Albans City Hospital is the Trust's elective care centre. It provides a wide range of elective care (both inpatient low risk surgery and day-case) and a wide range of outpatient and diagnostic services. Hemel Hempstead Hospital offers local healthcare facilities such as diagnostic services, including MRI and cold pathology, as well as an outpatient service and stroke rehabilitation beds.
Additional Information
There are good road and rail links to Watford via motorways, rail and underground. London is 20 minutes away by train and bus services run between Watford Junction and Watford General Hospital. The M25 is approximately 15 minutes due north and Heathrow lies to the west, approximately 25 minutes away. There are excellent recreation facilities within the locality, including leisure and activity parks, swimming pools, golf and tennis facilities, in addition to a shopping centre and theatre. The schools in South West Hertfordshire are excellent with a variety of primary and secondary schools, and sixth form colleges available.
Hemel Hempstead is close to London and served by the M1, M10 and M25 motorways. There is a rail link from London (Euston) to Hemel Hempstead which takes approximately 20 minutes.
St Albans is 20 minutes from London, close to the M25 and M1 and only 17 minutes by rail from London via Thameslink.
Consultant Rheumatologist
Accepting applications until: 12-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 12-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Watford General Hospital
- Address
- Vicarage Road
- Town
- Watford
- Postcode
- WD18 0HB
- Major / Minor Region
- Hertfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 London Fringe £149 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (YC72)
Specialty
- Main area
- Rheumatology
Job overview
The Rheumatology department is part of the acute medicine care division and helps deliver high quality inpatient and outpatient Rheumatology care as well as in general medicine. The unit works closely with the local community musculoskeletal service (Circle MSK), physiotherapy, orthopaedics and radiology. The department also runs a DXA service based at St Albans City Hospital.
• Dr Niall Keenen - Divisional Director for Medicine
• Kira Martin - Divisional Manager for Medicine
• Dr Sundeept Bhalara – Consultant and Clinical Director for Medical Specialities
• Dr Leena Patel - Consultant and Clinical lead for Rheumatology
• Dr Krishnan Baburaj – Consultant
• Dr Charlotte Wing – Consultant
• Dr Anoushka Seneviratne - Consultant
• 2 ST doctors in Rheumatology (ST4 level /GIM and ST5 level in pure) from Eastern Deanery Specialist Registrar training rotations
• 2 IMTs
• 1 IMT level Trust Grade Doctor
• 3 FY1s
• 3 Specialist Nurses in Rheumatology with a planned expansion to 5 nurses
• 3 DXA Technicians
Advert
- Monday Clinic *Admin/ queries
- Tuesday *Clinic *Xray Meeting
Departmental meeting
Clinical Governance meeting
- Wednesday *Clinic
SPA time
- Thursday *Clinic *Admin/ queries
- Friday *Clinic *Ward referrals
Working for our organisation
There has never been a more exciting time to join West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust! Major redevelopment works are due for completion by 2025 or soon after. These will be most dramatic at Watford General Hospital where up to 90% of buildings will be new.
The trust has recently gained ‘teaching hospital’ status which reflects the dedicated work of many teams and individuals who have set the standard for delivering high quality training, learning and education at all levels of the workforce.
We encourage and welcome people with disabilities. If you need help, please ask.
We reserve the right to close this advert early due to the volume of applicants. Please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
If you do not hear back within 3 weeks of your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A typical clinic would comprise:
3 new patients (30 minutes per patient)
7 follow-up patients (15 minutes per patient)
Supervision of Rheumatology ST1- ST6 level, IMT, GPVTS and nurse specialists
The average number of outpatients currently seen by each Consultant Rheumatologist per year is 454 new patients and 746 follow-up patients. Referrals for Rheumatology to the Trust have been increasing by 3% per year over the last 5 years.
The rheumatology team have an in-patient bed base of 16. They look after GIM and Rheumatology inpatients.
To enhance our reputation as an Employer of Choice, the Trust has approved the following Recruitment and Retention incentive for each successful candidate.
• £7000 “Golden Hello” payment for new recruits to be paid in 12 equal instalments (together with £8k relocation payment as per WHHT relocation policy if relocation is required)
• £12k retention payments in year 1 to 3 for all ED consultants (new recruits and existing consultants)
• Successful candidates will be also eligible for a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 (if required)
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Please refer the JD
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sundeept Bhalara
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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