Consultant in RHeumatology

This post is for a 10 PA Consultant Physician in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine comprising 8.5 DCC and 1.5 SPAsessions per week. The appointee will provide a specialist rheumatological service in conjunction with eight other Rheumatology Consultants based across both the Winchester and Basingstoke sites.

The postholder will provide support for our outpatient service but will also be involved with inpatient care, which is an integral part of the whole rheumatology service. This post will provide support for our Rheumatology outpatient service but also help us to achieve our 5 year goal of excellent care in Rheumatology including our biologics, CTD and fracture liaison services. Setting up an Ankylosing Spondylitis service, Rheumatology transition to adulthood and Fracture Liaison services are particular areas in development at the present time.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester
provide a comprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery.

Services are provided across Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover sites.
The Trust covers a population of 600,000 incorporating Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospitals (BNHH), Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester, Andover War Memorial Hospital (AWMH) and community hospitals. We provide one hospital service across multiple localities, delivering services as close as possible to the patient. BNHH and RHCH are 23 miles apart, situated in the middle of the M3 corridor, with excellent transport links to London and the south coast.

We are part of a friendly and strong Wessex Rheumatology network with regular CTD and US meetings. The department has got 5 Musculoskeletal Ultrasound machines, which are available for use in clinic and there is the option of developing further skills in this area if you are interested in doing so.

We have an active research team consisting of a Study Co-ordinator, Lead Research Consultant, Clinical Administrative Assistant and a part-time research nurse who work across both sites, facilitating enrolment in both NIHR Portfolio studies and commercial clinical trials.