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Trust Fellow in Rheumatology ST3 | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 January 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£61,825 - £70,425 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	08 February 2025
Location:	Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN
Company:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	6920073/317-TD-25-008

Summary

This 12-month post will offer excellent clinical experience and training in the management of all common rheumatologic conditions. It provides an opportunity to gain experience in the management of patients referred with suspected inflammatory arthritis including those relating to the spondyloarthropathies and autoimmune connective tissue diseases. Through supervised structured clinics, the post holder will become very experienced in the recognition of early inflammatory arthritis and distinguishing this from more degenerative and pain related syndromes. The post holder will be become confident in managing this group of patients with the support of appropriate diagnostic investigations and the wider MDT.



This job is ideal for someone who wishes to pursue a career in rheumatology and wishes to gain more experience in the speciality or someone with experience / qualifications in General practice wishing to gain more specialist experience. It is possible that this post could lead to a more permanent role for an appropriately qualified and motivated individual.



This post is to commence January 2025 until January 2026.

Clinical:

· To develop the necessary skills to distinguish inflammatory from non-inflammatory joint pain and initiate a management plan independently with appropriate use of diagnostic investigations.

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Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks

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’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This post will primarily provide daily medical input into the review of patients attending our MSK OPD department for management of suspected inflammatory arthritis


This advert closes on Friday 10 Jan 2025

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