Locum Metabolic Bone Consultant

3 months ago

Gillingham, United Kingdom Medway NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Metabolic Bone ConsultantLocum

**Division**: Diagnostics & Clinical Support Services

**Care Group**: Unplanned & Integrated Care

**Grade**: Consultant Locum

**Salary**: £88,364 - £119,133 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Metabolic Bone Consultant who 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.

The appointees, will be required to contribute to the general workload of the department. The posts are whole time 10 PA Family-friendly and part-time working can be considered.

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.

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.

We are recruiting for a Locum Consultant in Metabolic Bone who 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.

The metabolic bone unit is well established at Medway Maritime Hospital, providing service for the surrounding district of the Medway Towns (Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham) and Swale, covering a population of 370,000.

The clinical work is undertaken between Dr Acosta and Dr Wijesooriya with a specialist nurse Collette Anderson running the osteoporosis unit and contributing to clinics. The main focus is Osteoporosis with a smaller number of patients with less common bone disorders. The work consists of outpatients with currently 5 clinics running per week at Medway. A new Hologic Discovery A scanner has recently been installed and around 5000 DEXA scans are undertaken within the osteoporosis unit as well as intravenous bisphosphonate therapy and Denosumab treatments.

The postholder would be expected to contribute to metabolic bone clinics and to learn DEXA reporting. There is ample scope for audit and research, there is also opportunity to present at scientific meetings.

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