Consultant Rheumatologist
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £93,666.00 to £126,281.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £93666.00 - £126281.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 5BE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-24-0931 |
Summary
This is a 10PA newly created consultant post to facilitate service demands and has been created to support consultant rheumatology services across the department, including inflammatory arthritis, CTD/vasculitis, osteoporosis and designed to allow the successful candidate scope to develop a specialist interest. Educational and clinical supervision of a rheumatology SpR, clinical supervision of nursing staff and teaching of medical students is also expected. Clinical research is provided at the Clinical Investigation and Research Unit (CIRU) on the RSCH site. There are several on-going clinical trials to which the successful candidate would be expected to contribute. Dedicated time for these activities is given in the job plan. General outpatient templates are standardised to a maximum of 3 new patients and 6 follow up patients OR 10 follow up patients with 30 minutes allocated for a new patient and 20 minutes for follow up patients. There are currently no designated inpatient beds for Rheumatology. Patients admitted remain under the acute admitting physician but with daily input from the Rheumatology SpR and consultant of the day. A 1:5 consultant rota for daytime Rheumatology on call/ward referrals is currently in place for which 1PA/week is allocated. Clinical supervision of specialist registrars & advanced practitioners and teaching of medical students is expected. Triaging of referrals, response to advice and guidance emails, homecare drug prescribing and communication with patients, GPs and other specialists is distributed amongst consultant colleagues and included in job planning. Attendance at departmental and governance meetings and engagement with departmental audit and service improvement plans are expected within the SPA allocation of the post. On Call Commitment: There is no out of hours on call but the department runs a daily 1:5 in hours referral service for ward consults and GP phone advice and a weekly advice and guidance service for GP email requests and new patient referral triaging via the ERS online portal.