Job summary
- Main area
- Rheumatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (0)
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-7373548
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Rheumatologist with Metabolic Bone disease
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.
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 RHEUMATOLOGY
POST OF: Locum Consultant in Rheumatology including Metabolic Bone Disease
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is appointing one whole-time consultant in Rheumatology including Metabolic Bone Disease to support an expanding department.
This is an exciting time to join Rheumatology at OUHFT and become part of a consultant workforce with a reputation for excellence. We are seeking enthusiastic colleagues who are skilled in the delivery of general rheumatology including early inflammatory arthritis and sub-specialism in metabolic bone disease. The post offers integration with a large rheumatology department which has strong academic links to the University of Oxford.
The appointments are on a full-time basis but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share or work less than full-time, or from those looking to combine clinical work with a research career or teaching and training. Those with academic and subspecialty interests are encouraged to discuss the opportunities that are available
Candidates are advised to visit the Departments and are invited to contact Dr Chris Speers, Clinical Lead for Rheumatology, Tel: 01865 227357 and Professor Muhammad K Javaid, Clinical Lead for Metabolic Bone Disease.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder’s principal duties will be delivered at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations. The post-holder will provide consultant physician services for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with 50% split of direct clinical and supporting professional activities time between general rheumatology and metabolic bone disease.
The service is delivered primarily through in person out patient clinics primarily based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford as well as hybrid clinics. The post-holder would work 50% of time with the rest of the metabolic bone disease team in managing patients with a range of metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis, Paget’s disease and rare bone disorders. In addition to dedicated metabolic bone out-patient clinics, the post holder would provide clinical support for the Oxfordshire Fracture Prevention service, advice and guidance service and contribute to local and regional metabolic bone online multidisciplinary team meetings. The post holder would contribute to the governance of the service, service improvement and service development. Initially the post holder will not be required to support the rare adult bone disease. We do not anticipate the post holder offering in patient elective care for metabolic bone patients.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a Teaching Hospital. The post-holder is required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. This is going to be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, and training will be included in the regular job plan review. We are fortunate to have trainees and students of the highest calibre. There are many teaching, training and research opportunities within the department and the wider Trust and Universities. We have close links with two universities (Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University) that train many of our clinical staff and are actively exploring interdisciplinary and multi-professional opportunities. If the post-holder wishes to pursue research as part of this post, it will be encouraged and supported but subject to additional successful funding by the post-holder.
We work in a flexible and modular way that allows the opportunity for ongoing consultant career development. We expect the successful candidate to develop their subspecialty interests.
We will support new colleagues in developing teaching and leadership roles. The Trust is a clinically led organisation and consultants play key senior management roles. Research activities are developing and new appointments may support this.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The service is delivered primarily through in person out patient clinics primarily based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford as well as hybrid clinics. The post-holder would work 50% of time with the rest of the metabolic bone disease team in managing patients with a range of metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis, Paget’s disease and rare bone disorders. In addition to dedicated metabolic bone out-patient clinics, the post holder would provide clinical support for the Oxfordshire Fracture Prevention service, advice and guidance service and contribute to local and regional metabolic bone online multidisciplinary team meetings. The post holder would contribute to the governance of the service, service improvement and service development. Initially the post holder will not be required to support the rare adult bone disease. We do not anticipate the post holder offering in patient elective care for metabolic bone patients; however day unit attendances can be arranged at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre if required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MRCP or equivalent
- CCT in Rheumatology or
- Registration on the GMC specialist register in Rheumatology
- Or within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Training in Rheumatology to specialist level or equivalent
- Demonstrable experience of working in clinical rheumatology across a broad spectrum of conditions.
- Broad experience of general rheumatology.
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working in metabolic bone disease service.
- Demonstrable experience of working in rare bone disease service.
- Experience in management of common and rare metabolic bone disorders.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Sufficient organisational skills to function as a consultant.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork.
- Evidence of interdisciplinary and multi-professional working.
- Evidence of flexibility and open to innovative ways of working.
- Evidence of service improvement at the local level.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to communicate in written form (publications, reports etc).
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- Experience as clinical or educational supervisor.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.
- Ability to support departmental research.
- Full registration and licence to practise.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership in NHS, research, teaching, professional bodies or service development.
- Management qualification.
- Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
- Prior experience with clinical information systems.
- Evidence of service development including business cases.
- Education qualification.
- Peer reviewed publications.
- Research grants.
- Full driving licence.
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 Chris Speers
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Rheumatology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 227357
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