Specialty Doctor (Rheumatology)

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

Main area Rheumatology Grade Specialty Doctor Contract Permanent: This role is on multiple bases Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 262-A-26-

Site Cumberland Infirmary Town Carlisle Salary £63,696 - £102,689 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/08/:59

Job overview

Are you a Rheumatologist looking to join a dynamic team and to take an active part in shaping future Rheumatology services in North Cumbria? Why not consider joining us in our modern hospitals on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park?

NCIC is working in partnership with The Pears Cumbria School of Medicine. This will offer potential opportunities to support rural and remote medicine as well as help "grow our own" medical workforce within Cumbria.

The post will be based at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle but the post holder will be required to work at other sites within the Trust.

On-calls within General Medicine would also be available if desired by the candidate.

Main duties of the job

Applications are welcome from candidates wishing to work full or part time in Rheumatology. In the course of his/her work the job holder liaises with nursing, professional and technical, social work and administrative staff.

An educational supervisor will be assigned to provide support. Appraisal and Job Planning is carried out at regular intervals, and forwarded to the specialty lead. The programme of training for each individual doctor will be flexible depending on his/her particular needs and stage of training.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Person specification Qualifications & Training

• Full registration with GMC
• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• An appropriate higher qualification

Skills & Knowledge

• Minimum of 4 years post graduate experience, 2 of which in speciality.
• High level of clinical experience and competence in the management of the breadth of common rheumatological presentations
• Able to clinically evaluate and manage a patient
• Able to employ expertise and clinical decision making skills of a senior and independent/autonomous practitioner.
• Treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
• Demonstrate adequate experience and training in Joint injections.
• Experience of training and supervising junior medical staff and students.
• Training and Experience in Ultrasound of Joints.

Leadership & Management

• Awareness of leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership
• Ability to lead a medical team
• Managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable

Teaching

• Experience of, and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
• Experience of supervising SpR's
• Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

• Commitment to continuing medical education, appraisal and clinical governance.
• Evidence of participation in clinical audit.
• Ability to critically appraise research and apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Ability to supervise junior staff undertaking research projects.
• Commitment to governance processes e.g. incident reporting, mortality reviews.
• Proven track record in undertaking research projects.
• Demonstration of implemented change in clinical practice

Communication skills and abilities

• Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carer
• Respects patients dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult.

Personal Attributes

• Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
• Approachable and effective Multidisciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Confident approach without being arrogant.
• Ability to organise workload efficiently
• Cope well in stressful work situations
• Work with enthusiasm and shows initiative
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels.
• A special interest to complement that of the existing post-holders

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.