Medway Maritime Hospital
Location
Gillingham, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Main area Rheumatology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Multi-site working) Job ref 275-2402-LOCCONRHU
Site Medway Foundation Trust Town Gillingham Salary £93,666 - £126,281 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/03/2024 23:59
Job Title: Locum Consultant Rheumatologist
Division: Unplanned and Integrated Care
Interview Date: TBC
We are recruiting for an Locum Consultant Rheumatologistwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Our values are B old, E very Person Counts, S haring and Open and T ogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To provide a consultant rheumatology outpatient and in-patient service to patients at hospitals covered by MFT at the Fleet site.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
The following provides scheduling details of the clinical activity and clinically related activity components of the job plan which occur at regular times in the week. Agreement should be reached between the appointee and their Clinical Director with regard to the scheduling of all other activities, including the Supporting Professional Activities.
This timetable will be subject to change depending on the needs of the rheumatology service and in line with job planning cycles. Whilst the role will be based at Medway FT, the post holder will be expected to undertake activities at other hospitals/ community clinics to enable delivery of service by the Medway rheumatology department.
This is a pure rheumatology post with no GIM commitments. There is no out of hours cover involved but post holder will participate with existing medical staff in delivering in reach(speciality ) ward reviews.
AM
PM
MONDAY
Revalidation activities
SPA = 0.5
Admin DCC = 0.5
Admin / ward referrals
DCC = 1
TUESDAY
DCC = 1
DCC = 1
WEDNESDAY
DCC = 1
Admin DCC- 0.5
Audit/CPD/Teaching
SPA = 0.5
THURSDAY
DCC = 1
Admin / ward referrals
DCC = 1
FRIDAY
DCC = 1
Audit/CPD/Teaching
SPA = 1
DCC = Direct Clinical Care SA = Supporting activities
A typical clinic template will include 3 new and 8 follow up patients. Administration sessions are allocated for general administration relating to the consultant’s case load and the running of the clinical department. The Consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of the department. The appointee will be expected to contribute to the overall management of the service.
The Trust operates an annual consultant appraisal scheme. Each individual consultant has a designated appraiser who performs their appraisal. A copy of the Trust’s Consultant Appraisal Policy is available upon request.
The new consultant will be offered the opportunity for mentoring.
Medway Maritime Hospital is a smoke free site. Smoking is completely prohibited in all Trust buildings, grounds and car parks for patients, visitors, staff and contractors. This will ensure that the hospital is a better place to work and a better place for our patients to be treated
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.
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