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An opportunity has arisen for full-time Consultant in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine within a growing, dynamic and forward thinking Rheumatology department at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, part of the Chelsea & Westminster Foundation Trust. The candidate will join a faculty which currently consists of 4 Consultants, an Associate Specialist, a Specialty Doctor and a Specialist Registrar, working with a multidisciplinary team at the Chelsea & Westminster site. The appointed individual is expected to uphold the Trust values to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care to patients.

Applicants must be on the Specialist Registers for Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine, or within six months of being admitted to the Registers if they are trainees currently in a training programme within the UK.

Any candidate who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post; if such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

1.       Outpatient activity

Four full outpatient clinics each week and one short outpatient clinic each week. There are nurse led clinics including for patient education and disease modifying drug monitoring to support the outpatient service. There is a pharmacist prescriber to support prescription of DMARD drugs. There is an Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner providing a weekly Spondyloarthritis clinic within the Rheumatology Outpatients.

2.       Inpatient activity

Rheumatology patients are admitted under the medical teams, with appropriate input provided from the Rheumatology SPR and Consultants. Rheumatology SPR and Consultants also provide advice around management of rheumatology-related problems in other patients on request, including patients on the Ambulatory & Emergency Care Unit as well as wards. 

3. MDT meetings

Attendance with appropriate contribution is expected at the radiology/rheumatology MDT, attended by specialist musculoskeletal consultant radiologists and trainees, and at the fortnightly Complex Rheumatology/Connective Tissue Disease/Vasculitis meetings. 

4. Departmental meetings

Attendance with appropriate contribution is expected at the weekly Grand Round and Rheumatology Academic Meetings, as part of CPD. Attendance with appropriate contribution is expected at Governance Meetings.

Please see full job description for complete details.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We provide services from two main hospitals, West Middlesex University Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.