Job summary
- Main area
- Rheumatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Locum application will be considered
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 339-NMSK7076-SS
- Employer
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southmead Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/06/2025 08:00
- Interview date
- 29/07/2025
Employer heading
Consultant in Rheumatology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Applications are invited for a substantive, full time (10PA) Consultant to join our Rheumatology team. Part-time or Locum applicants are also welcome. The attached job description and job plan is awaiting approval from the Royal College of Physicians.
Applicants are required to be on the Specialist Register and/or have a CCT in Rheumatology or be within six months of obtaining it by the interview date. Full current professional registration with the GMC is essential. Experiences and familiarity within UK hospital systems and practices or equivalent is essential.
Main duties of the job
The appointment is based within the Rheumatology Service at North Bristol NHS Trust. We provide a patient-centred multidisciplinary service. Our rheumatology department is diverse and ambitious with a shared vision to strive for excellence. We treat patients with all aspects of rheumatology and provide comprehensive services for inflammatory arthritis, ultrasound, transition care, metabolic bone disease | osteoporosis, GCA and CTD vasculitis. In addition, we have a successful and highly productive academic rheumatology team linked with the University of Bristol.
Working for our organisation
We are based in the North of this buzzing and culturally rich city – if you move here it won’t take you long to discover everything that it has to offer. Bristol City Centre is just 15 minutes away, and has a great array of shops, theatres and places to eat, drink and socialise. As a place to work, our Trust couldn’t be better placed to boost your career with its teaching status and strong links with the University of Bristol and University of the West of England.
Our vision at NBT is that by enabling our teams to be the best they can be we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered. Our values represent the way we do things and what we stand for. By embedding these shared values in everything with do, we aim to create positive experiences for patients and staff. Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an environment that delivers high quality care.
The successful candidate will be employed under the Terms & Conditions of Service for Consultants (England) 2003. The post will close before the intended closing date should sufficient number of suitable applications be received. Therefore, if you interested in applying, we suggest you do so at the earliest opportunity.
North Bristol NHS Trust does not pay for interview expenses. Late applications will not be accepted.
Committed to equal opportunities, job share applications welcome
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a pure rheumatology post with no GIM commitment. The post holder would be required to deliver a clinical service including clinics at base hospital Southmead and satellite hospital Cossham.
The post holder will contribute to the general rheumatology service and autoimmune CTD (connective tissue disease and vasculitis) service through running outpatient clinics. As well as providing an advisory service to inpatients admitted under other specialties at Southmead, in conjunction with other members of the rheumatology team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
- Maintain Full registration with the GMC.
- Must have CCT in Rheumatology and have been entered on the GMC Specialist Register at the time of the appointment.
- Specialist registrars that do not hold a CCT must be due to be awarded one within 6 months of the interview date.
Desirable criteria
- Higher qualification e.g. Masters, MD, PhD
- Rheumatology publications.
- Evidence of additional relevant training e.g. management and leadership.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices (or equivalent).
- Minimum of seven years postgraduate experience including higher surgical/medical training, three years as a Specialist Registrar in an approved training post, or equivalent. Part of this period may be in a post of equivalent responsibility and training potential. Broad and full training in diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic conditions.
- Knowledge of contemporary NHS management issues.
- Knowledge of political context within which we operate.
- Clinical Governance principles.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in involvement in service redesign.
- Evidence of leadership development programme committed to quality improvement during training
Further Training, Management and Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent CME/ reasonable training progression at this stage of career.
- Experience in audit | projects and written up
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a general management course or programme.
Research, Teaching and Publications
Essential criteria
- Proven teaching ability.
- Willingness to undertake teaching of medical under-graduates & postgraduates.
Desirable criteria
- Rheumatology publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations at regional | national meetings
- Record in research.
- Demonstration of involvement in clinical directorate management.
Communication and Leadership Skills
Essential criteria
- Good written communication skills. Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels.
- Ability to help manage a team and form effective working relationships within a team.
- Ability to inspire, motivate and develop junior medical staff.
- Ability to inspire, motivate and develop junior medical staff.
- Ability to fulfil duties of the post, including on-call commitments.
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
- Dr Harsha Gunawardena
- Job title
- Clinical Director, NMSK
- Email address
- [email protected]
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