Consultant in RHeumatology

**The post-holder will**:

- Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care in Rheumatology
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care
- Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Take responsibility for own actions and decisions within the empowerment limits agreed by the Care Group Leadership team
- Be required to cover for other Consultant colleagues during normal periods of leave

The appointee will be expected to participate in and share responsibility with the existing consultants for:

- The clinical workload of the Department and service development
- The administrative affairs of the Department
- Reporting on Dexa scans and is encouraged to pursuit his/her special interest according to the needs of the Department
- Please note there is no on-call activity associated with the post. The rheumatology department doesn't operate an out of hours on-call service.

Education & Training

**The post-holder will**:

- Participate in the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programmes, and teaching of other healthcare professionals
- Participate in appraisal and assessment of junior medical colleagues, in compliance with PMETB trainer standards
- Support the Trust research portfolio and enrol patients in the National and Regional trials as appropriate
- Research, evaluate and recommend developments in practice and techniques within Rheumatology to improve the quality of care delivered, such as " Momentum pathways of care"

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”

**The post-holder will**:

- Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care in Rheumatology
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care
- Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Take responsibility for own actions and decisions within the empowerment limits agreed by the Care Group Leadership team
- Be required to cover for other Consultant colleagues during normal periods of leave

The appointee will be expected to participate in and share responsibility with the existing consultants for:

- The clinical workload of the Department and service development
- The administrative affairs of the Department
- Reporting on Dexa scans and is encouraged to pursuit his/her special interest according to the needs of the Department
- Please note there is no on-call activity associated with the post. The rheumatology department doesn't operate an out of hours on-call service.

Education & Training

**The post-holder will**:

- Participate in the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programmes, and teaching of other healthcare professionals
- Participate in appraisal and assessment of junior medical colleagues, in compliance with PMETB trainer standards
- Support the Trust research portfolio and enrol patients in the National and Regional trials as appropriate
- Research, evaluate and recommend developments in practice and techniques within Rheumatology to improve the quality of care delivered, such as " Momentum pathways of care"