Consultant Rheumatologist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Rheumatologist based at North Tyneside General Hospital and supporting the delivery of a Trust wide multi-disciplinary Rheumatology Service.

The consultant team have a range of special interests and the successful candidate with compliment the other members of the department. They will provide a Rheumatology service to the population of North Tyneside and Northumberland and work with members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality care.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances. Any applicant 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 individual basis in consultation with consultant colleagues., The posts 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 in Appendix 2 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.

Responsibility for medical appraisal by acting as a lead/primary appraiser within the service and ensuring that all medical staff within your service undertake an annual appraisal in line with the Trust's Medical Appraisal Policy and GMC standards.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes'