Job summary
- Main area
- Rheumatology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 8 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 317-CON-25-115
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rheumatology Specialty - FH
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Rheumatologist
Consultant
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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 the clinical role, 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
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· 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.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC Registration.
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
Desirable criteria
- Special skills training in the specialty.
- Evidence of participation in clinical trials at sub PI and PI level
- Higher Degree.
- GCP certification
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience in the specialty, including metabolic bone medicine.
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within rheumatology and metabolic bone medicine
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of national commissioning policies and prescribing practice in rheumatology sub specialty areas and metabolic bone medicine.
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills. Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature.
- Publications in the last five years.
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
- Evidence of teaching training AHP/Nursing staff
- Higher degree.
- GCP certification
Research
Essential criteria
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature.
- Publications in the last five years.
Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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