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Consultant Rheumatologist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7169632/317-CON-25-115 |
Summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This post will include responsibility for patients within our metabolic bone service, and across a broad spectrum of rheumatology. There will be considerable opportunity to be involved with the development of the metabolic bone service, to forge closer links with colleagues in other specialities, reflecting the diverse nature of metabolic bone medicine. The service delivers both local and regional specialised commissioned services, including as part of the NHSE Adult Rare Bone Disease Network. This post will also include work within general rheumatology, including the Inflammatory Arthritis Service, with participation in the National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit. There will be the opportunity to join our Connective Tissue Disease and Vasculitis service, if desired. The successful applicant will be responsible for a mixed caseload including new patients, and some follow up patients from the cohorts of consultants who have retired. The role will involve our regular multidisciplinary team meetings, supporting our specialised commissioned services and regional advice provision.
We have a busy dedicated musculoskeletal outpatient department (including Xray facilities and DXA scanners), a day case unit and in patient beds.
In addition to theclinicalrole, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audi
The post includes contribution to the low frequency rheumatology on-call service for speciality referrals only and management of a small number of in patients.
Our team currently comprises 17 NHS consultant rheumatologists (10 WTE), and following significant new investment from the Trust, expansion of our medical and specialist nursing team is currently in progress. Five of the current consultant team hold academic consultant posts.
This post is to join one of our current rheumatology consultants who has a special interest in metabolic bone medicine. A new consultant will be supported to develop their own interests and subspeciality within metabolic bone medicine
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
· The successful candidate will share responsibility for running and ensuring best practice in our rheumatology and metabolic bone services. This will include supervision and training of junior doctors, clinical nurse specialists, clinical pharmacists, and AHPs
· Active contribution to the multidisciplinary team meetings (where relevant this can include for inflammatory arthritis, AxSpA, metabolic bone, radiology, histopathology plus local and regional CTD 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.
· Once established in the clinical role, aim to develop the department’s engagement and participation with teaching across the medical undergraduate and graduate curriculum and support supervision and clinical oversight of AHP and nursing departmental teaching.
This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Apr 2025
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