Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Rheumatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (0)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-7173302-S1
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Pro Rata Per Annum for Consultant
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Paediatric Rheumatology Consultant
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
LOCUM CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY
POST OF: LOCUM CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY AND CHRONIC PAIN
Oxford University Hospitals are recruiting for for a Locum Consultant in paediatric rheumatology and chronic pain based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Oxford Children’s Hospital. This is for 9PAs.
This post is flexible fixed term locum for sickness cover of an existing Consultant, to start ASAP.
Please contact Clinical Lead Dr Akhila Kavirayani if needed for further details
PA email: [email protected]
Current Paediatric Rheumatology consultant team comprises of Dr Kathy Bailey, Dr Akhila Kavirayani, Dr Pam Dawson, Dr Inga Turtsevich (locum) and a well-established clinical team working in the key areas of Paediatric Rheumatology and Chronic Pain.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will join a well-established multidisciplinary providing a comprehensive paediatric rheumatology and chronic pain service for the Thames Valley and surrounding region.
The appointee will have the opportunity to work closely with consultants and allied professionals from the Children’s Hospital Oxford, as well as a number of other DGH’s throughout the region. There are close links with the adult rheumatology service.
The appointee will also be part of the regional Chronic Pain service providing a comprehensive out-patient and intensive day case service to young people and families from across the region and beyond.
We are looking for a person with appropriate clinical and leadership abilities. The post holder will be fully supported by a busy and friendly department and will be encouraged to take part in research and academic development.
Close links to the University of Oxford provide an excellent opportunity to develop research interests in a variety of areas.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Paediatric Adolescent Rheumatology Centre (OxPARC) is a nationally recognised specialised paediatric rheumatology service, established in 2004, providing a secondary care service for much of Thames Valley and the tertiary referral centre for Northern South Central and neighbouring areas. The emphasis is on one-stop clinics with a full multidisciplinary team including ophthalmology.
Oxford provides a comprehensive service for chronic pain (OXCYPP) with multiprofessional out-patient assessment and in-patient rehabilitation programme.
There is a strong multidisciplinary team working across all areas of the service, please see job descriptions and person specification for further details.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applications are invited from candidates with appropriate training and experience for the post of Locum Consultant (or SAS might be offered based on experience) in Paediatric Rheumatology at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Applicants should possess, or be within 6 months of receiving, a CCST in paediatrics (or equivalent) or have equivalent training in Paediatric Rheumatology at the time of commencing the appointment and have had appropriate experience within a dedicated paediatric rheumatology unit.
Oxford is a tertiary paediatric rheumatology specialist services (OXPARC), established in 2004, providing a secondary and tertiary care service for much of Thames Valley Additional specialist services provided include a skeletal dysplasia service, sports medicine and Combined ID clinic.
The service includes the Oxford Children and Young People’s Chronic Pain (OXCYPP) service, a regional service providing both outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation programmes for young people in pain. There is an embedded transition service supported by an adult rheumatologist with age appropriate MDT clinics provided in both the paediatric and adult setting. This provides seamless care for adolescents and young people with rheumatic disease to adult services.
Please note, the post might close sooner than advertised if suitable applications received.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MBChB or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent
- Completion of competencies for GRID training in paediatric rheumatology or equivalent
- APLS or equivalent in date
- Trained to level 3 or equivalent safeguarding
- Transport - Ability to travel to outreach centres
- Completion of competencies for sub-specialty training in paediatric rheumatology or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree
- Training in paediatric chronic pain. Management qualification
- Management qualification
- Trained in adolescent and transitional care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of paediatric rheumatology in a tertiary paediatric rheumatology centre
- Experience working in adolescent transition and young adult services
- Experience and training in managing patients with Chronic Pain
- Experience with independent intra articular steroid injections, both under local and general anaesthetic
- Prescribing of complex medication
- Experience of managing complex patients requiring multi-specialty input and intensive care
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Experience as Locum or substantive paediatric rheumatology consultant
- Experience leading and developing services for young people including transition and young adult clinics
- Work experience in one of the major pain centres.
- Experience working within a clinical network
- Experience of joint assessment and injection with ultrasound
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership in clinical and management setting.
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork and service improvement.
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Able to communicate well with children, parents and teams.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Participation in clinical research
- GCP or equivalent training
- Experience recruiting and contributing to research studies
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience in regional or national project.
- Leadership qualification
- Management qualification.
- Evidence of additional management responsibilites
- Education qualification
- Presentations at national and international meetings. Peer reviewed publications Research grants
- CSG /NIHR activity/experience
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 Akhila Kavirayani
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 7777
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- Address
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