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Consultant Rheumatologist
The closing date is 22 March 2026
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. We will consider both full time and less than full time applicants. This post is to replace a retiring colleague.
This post will include responsibility for patients across a broad spectrum of rheumatology but with a focus on connective tissue disease and vasculitis. This will include being part of our connective tissue diseases and vasculitis team and our Inflammatory Arthritis Service, including the National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit. The successful applicant will be responsible for a mixed caseload of both new patients and inheritance of some existing follow up patients. The role will include involvement in our regular multidisciplinary team meetings, supporting our specialised commissioned services and regional advice provision.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will share responsibility for running and ensuring best practice in our rheumatology service.
This will include supervision and training of junior doctors, clinical nurse specialists, clinical pharmacists, and allied health professionals.
Active contribution to the multidisciplinary team meetings (where relevant this can include for inflammatory arthritis, AxSpA, metabolic bone, radiology, histopathology plus local and regional connective tissue disease MDT meetings)
Provision of long term care to an existing cohort of patients and management of new referrals.
Contribute medical support to the multidisciplinary team and ensure training and safety standards are met.
Set up regular audit and quality improvement cycles.
Involvement in the department's participation with teaching across the medical undergraduate and graduate curriculum and support supervision and clinical oversight of AHP and nursing departmental teaching.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Freeman Hospital
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
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Job responsibilities
Referrals come from Primary Care in Newcastle and surrounding areas, other medical specialities, and orthopaedics.
Tertiary referrals come from a wide geographic area from West Cumbria to Teesside and north to the Scottish Border.
The successful candidate will share responsibility for running and ensuring best practice throughout our service.
The post-holder will participate in a consultant non-resident on call rota for rheumatology and will conduct a ward round with the on-call registrar on Saturdays and Sundays when on call.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
* Primary Medical Qualification.
* Full GMC Registration.
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
* Special skills training in the specialty.
* Evidence of participation in clinical trials at sub PI and PI level
* Higher Degree.
* GCP certification
Clinical Experience
* Evidence of experience in the specialty.
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
* Awareness of national commissioning policies and prescribing practice in rheumatology sub specialty areas
* Evidence of sub-speciality skills in connective tissue disease and/or vasculitis
Management and Administration Experience
* Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
* Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
* An understanding of Clinical Governance.
* Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
* Evidence of leadership / project management.
* Evidence of having implemented change.
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.
Teaching
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
* Evidence of teaching training AHP/Nursing staff
Research
* Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
* Research/critical review of literature.
* Publications in the last five years.
* GCP certification.
Audit
* Evidence of participation in audit.
* Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
* Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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