Locum Rheumatology Consultant

Job summary

We are recruiting for a full time Locum Rheumatology Consultant for one year to join a dynamic team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Applications are welcome from those who wish to work less than full time.

The successful applicant will join an established team of 8 pure Rheumatologists, and 2 Acute Physician Rheumatologists.The post holder will be encouraged to maintain and develop special interests to complement those in the department.

This is a pure Rheumatology post and includes opportunities for the successful candidate to engage in education, research, management and acute medicine.

We work in a cohesive and inclusive environment with close links to related specialties. The Rheumatology department in Nottingham is a very happy place to develop your career and feel supported.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be expected to fulfil the following duties with the agreed Job Plan.

A full range of outpatient and day case rheumatology activity of new and follow-up patients. Clinics are booked to Royal College of Physicians guidelines. The appointee will also be involved in working with and supervising the activities of clinical nurse specialists. The expectation is for clinics to be delivered over 38 weeks (allowing for the consultant of the week in the job plan) per year to allow for leave and statutory holidays.

Your clinical duties will also include:

• Provision with, Consultant colleagues, of a comprehensive elective and emergency Rheumatology service
• Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave
• Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in your charge and the proper functioning of the department.

These duties are subject to review from time to time in the light of the changing requirements of the service. If alterations to the described duties are required these will be mutually agreed between the appointee, their Consultant colleagues and the Trust.

The person appointed will be required to devote substantially the whole of his/her time to the duties of the post and give them priority at all times.

Specialty interests including osteoporosis, CTD, educations, management and research would be considered

About us

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)is one of England's largest acute teaching trusts and established on 1 April 2006 following the merger ofNottingham City Hospitaland theQueen's Medical CentreNHS Trusts. We provide acute and specialist services to 2.5m people withinNottinghamand surrounding communities at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and the City Hospital campuses, as well as specialist services for a further 3-4m people from across the region.

All out-patient rheumatology clinics and day case services are held in Gateway E in the Nottingham Treatment Centre, which is a modern purpose built, self-contained facility on the QMC campus. NUH have recently been awarded a 5-year contract to run the services at the Treatment Centre. Consultation rooms, patient waiting rooms, venesection service, pharmacy, ultrasound facilities and radiology (including MRI and CT) are all in very close proximity on a single level. Equipment and support is available for musculoskeletal ultrasound within the clinic and ward environment.