Job Title: Locum Consultant Rheumatologist
Division: Medicine and Emergency Care
Interview Date: TBC
We are recruiting for an Locum Consultant Rheumatologistwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To provide a consultant rheumatology outpatient and in-patient service to patients at hospitals covered by MFT at the Fleet site.
* To help develop the rheumatology service at MFT.
* To work collaboratively with colleagues.
* To maintain continuous professional development and engage in revalidation activities.
* To adhere and contribute to The Trusts' vision and values.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job responsibilities
The following provides scheduling details of the clinical activity and clinically related activity components of the job plan which occur at regular times in the week. Agreement should be reached between the appointee and their Clinical Director with regard to the scheduling of all other activities, including the Supporting Professional Activities.
This timetable will be subject to change depending on the needs of the rheumatology service and in line with job planning cycles. Whilst the role will be based at Medway FT, the post holder will be expected to undertake activities at other hospitals/ community clinics to enable delivery of service by the Medway rheumatology department.
This is a pure rheumatology post with no GIM commitments. There is no out of hours cover involved but post holder will participate with existing medical staff in delivering in reach(speciality ) ward reviews.
AM
PM
MONDAY
Revalidation activities
SPA = 0.5
Admin DCC = 0.5
Admin / ward referrals
DCC = 1
TUESDAY
DCC = 1
DCC = 1
WEDNESDAY
DCC = 1
Admin DCC- 0.5
Audit/CPD/Teaching
SPA = 0.5
THURSDAY
DCC = 1
Admin / ward referrals
DCC = 1
FRIDAY
DCC = 1
Audit/CPD/Teaching
SPA = 1
DCC = Direct Clinical Care SA = Supporting activities
A typical clinic template will include 3 new and 8 follow up patients. Administration sessions are allocated for general administration relating to the consultants case load and the running of the clinical department. The Consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of the department. The appointee will be expected to contribute to the overall management of the service.
The Trust operates an annual consultant appraisal scheme. Each individual consultant has a designated appraiser who performs their appraisal. A copy of the Trusts Consultant Appraisal Policy is available upon request.
The new consultant will be offered the opportunity for mentoring.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration
* Extensive Rheumatology experience
* managing patients within UK at a senior level MRCP (UK) or equivalent
* ELTS (Academic) level 7.5, or graduate of a Medical School in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA or Canada
Knowledge
* Appropriate experience and clinical expertise
* Knowledge of health service management
Experience
* Ability to undertake musculoskeletal ultrasound in general and vascular ultrasound for vasculitis
* At least 7 years post registration essential. Clinical and/or laboratory based research experience desirable.
* Experience in involvement in service redesign would be desirable.
Value Based Question
* How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
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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