Locum Consultant Rheumatologist

Job overview

The post is based in the Rheumatology Department at Airedale General Hospital. Some clinics are undertaken at different sites such as at Skipton hospital The post holder will undertake outpatient clinics independently/ autonomously, review inpatient referrals, manage day case patients and work with the multidisciplinary team (if part time working, will predominantly be outpatient clinics with little commitment to inpatient referrals). The department has proactively developed services to improve patient care and experience including setting up of telephone clinics, e-consultation service, and group counselling clinics for both bDMARDs and sDMARDs. We have developed a bespoke DMARD monitoring system on SystmOne (primary electronic healthcare record). Advise line calls and tasking between the clinical teams is done via SystmOne and this has improved response times and efficiency. The post holder will be expected to be actively involved in managing all these services. There is good multidisciplinary team support. The trust provides telemedicine service (remote consultations) for multiple prisons in the UK. On appointment, the clinical lead will discuss and finalize the job plan. The admin time per clinic would be 0.5 (0.25 standard clinic admin + additional admin generated by advice line/CNS queries; long term disease/DMARD queries.). There are regular MDT meetings weekly (rheumatology/ radiology MDT and rheumatology team internal MDT) which the post holder is expected to participate actively in.

Main duties of the job

The Department • 2 Consultants; 1 Specialist grade doctor; 3 Rheumatology Specialist Nurses and two band 5 nurses (day unit) staff the rheumatology department. • The department provides a specialty service to a local population of approximately 240,000. The specialty cares for rheumatology patients with a whole spectrum of diseases including complex connective tissue diseases, vasculitis and osteoporosis. It is a predominantly outpatient based specialty with inpatient care provided jointly with the physician colleagues. Day case infusions and procedures including biologics, cyclophosphamide infusions, zoledronic acid infusions, nerve blocks and multiple joint injections are routinely undertaken. • We have dedicated early arthritis clinics (2 per week) with early access to patients with suspected inflammatory arthritis. An excellent musculoskeletal radiology service is available with access to ultrasound, CT and MR imaging. We have a weekly meeting with a MSK radiologist. • The hospital has a DXA scanner and Fracture Liaison service lead by rheumatology team. • We have combined renal/ rheumatology MDT (virtual) clinics set up and recently started combined lung/ rheumatology clinics. There are no on-call commitments in this post

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post is based in the Rheumatology Department at Airedale General Hospital. Some clinics are undertaken at different sites such as at Skipton hospital The post holder will undertake outpatient clinics independently/ autonomously, review inpatient referrals, manage day case patients and work with the multidisciplinary team (if part time working, will predominantly be outpatient clinics with little commitment to inpatient referrals). The department has proactively developed services to improve patient care and experience including setting up of telephone clinics, e-consultation service, and group counselling clinics for both bDMARDs and sDMARDs. We have developed a bespoke DMARD monitoring system on SystmOne (primary electronic healthcare record). Advise line calls and tasking between the clinical teams is done via SystmOne and this has improved response times and efficiency. The post holder will be expected to be actively involved in managing all these services. There is good multidisciplinary team support. The trust provides telemedicine service (remote consultations) for multiple prisons in the UK. On appointment, the clinical lead will discuss and finalize the job plan. The admin time per clinic would be 0.5 (0.25 standard clinic admin + additional admin generated by advice line/CNS queries; long term disease/DMARD queries.). There are regular MDT meetings weekly (rheumatology/ radiology MDT and rheumatology team internal MDT) which the post holder is expected to participate actively in.

The Department • 2 Consultants; 1 Specialist grade doctor; 3 Rheumatology Specialist Nurses and two band 5 nurses (day unit) staff the rheumatology department. • The department provides a specialty service to a local population of approximately 240,000. The specialty cares for rheumatology patients with a whole spectrum of diseases including complex connective tissue diseases, vasculitis and osteoporosis. It is a predominantly outpatient based specialty with inpatient care provided jointly with the physician colleagues. Day case infusions and procedures including biologics, cyclophosphamide infusions, zoledronic acid infusions, nerve blocks and multiple joint injections are routinely undertaken. • We have dedicated early arthritis clinics (2 per week) with early access to patients with suspected inflammatory arthritis. An excellent musculoskeletal radiology service is available with access to ultrasound, CT and MR imaging. We have a weekly meeting with a MSK radiologist. • The hospital has a DXA scanner and Fracture Liaison service lead by rheumatology team. • We have combined renal/ rheumatology MDT (virtual) clinics set up and recently started combined lung/ rheumatology clinics. There are no on-call commitments in this post