Consultant Rheumatologist

Job summary

The post holder will be a member of the Specialist Medicine Directorate in BHRUT and will be part of the consultant team that will deliver Rheumatology services across BHRUT.

The post holder is expected to possess membership of the Royal College of Physicians or to have equivalent qualifications.

To be on GMC specialist register at the time of taking up the post and have obtained the MRCP Renal certification is desirable.

The post-holder is expected to share in-patient commitments with the existing full-time Rheumatologists to provide an acute in-patient referral service 52 weeks a year.

The post holder will have secretarial support and an adequately equipped office, including IT facilities.

The post-holder is actively encouraged to participate in service-development and clinical-governance activities, in addition to clinical and educational supervision of junior trainees.

In conjunction with the other Rheumatologists the post-holder will contribute to the overall organisation and planning of the service and will be supported by the team.

Main duties of the job

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.

The Full-time working week will consist of 10 Programmed Activities (PA's), separated into:

1.Direct Clinical Care

2. Supporting Professional Activities:

Weekly timetable of fixed commitments:

Activity

1. Direct Clinical Care (Outpatient clinics, admin and clinical MDT meetings):8.5 PAs
2. Supporting Professional Activities: 1.5 PAs

The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

A proposed job plan has been outlined and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Rheumatology Medical Staffing

Queens Hospital & King George Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Rheumatology Medical Staffing

Queens Hospital & King George Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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