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Rheumatology Services at MYTT (Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust) is entering an exciting period of clinical workforce expansion in all grades and roles. This is a new post having the opportunity to join and develop the existing Rheumatology Consultants team with a specific remit to further transform and extend Rheumatology services.

We are looking for a dynamic, creative, and motivated Consultant to join our friendly progressive team. The successful candidate will be joining an established team of 7 consultants to work in outpatient clinics and inpatient acute referrals as well as having our dedicated Rheumatology Ultrasound Diagnostic Service.

This post is to provide additional capacity for our expanding service, and it is expected that applicants will have undergone specialist training in Rheumatology medicine. Most importantly you must be driven and have a desire to provide an exemplary service with our patients at its heart. As a forward thinking trust we are continually striving to deliver clinical excellence to our patients.

We are developing our GIM (General Internal Medicine) workforce in line with the shape of training development and those consultants that join our trust that are dual accredited in GIM will be asked to take part in GIM ward cover on a 1:8-week rota. For the GIM week, the mornings will be a ward round and the afternoons will be free for other specialty work.

Main duties of the job

Duties will be based primarily on our Wakefield (Pinderfields) or Dewsbury sites, although all our medical staff are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites (including Pontefract). The main duties of the post will include

Provision of a general rheumatology service together with other consultant colleagues within the department. A specialist interest that complements those within the department will be encouraged.

Our usual clinic template is 4 hours, with 40 and 20 minutes allocated for new and follow-up patients, respectively (e.g., 2 new and 8 follow-up).

Clinics are held on all 3 of our Hospital sites, consultants will usually be on a site for the whole day, if travel between sites is required, travel time will be added to your job plan.

Supervision of junior medical staff and the specialist nursing team.

Acute rheumatology covers ward referrals, e-consultations, and GP referral triage on a weekly schedule during normal working hours. There are no out-of-hours calls.

Hot week cover for acute Rheumatology 08:00 18:00 hrs., Monday to Friday

We are excited to include in this post some GIM training time for those clinicians who are dual accredited in rheumatology and GIM.

About us

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Job description
Job responsibilities

This post is offered on a full-time (10 PA) basis, although less than full-time applications will be considered.

Our Rheumatology service provides care to patients within Wakefield and North Kirklees, we provided over 13,000 outpatient and diagnostic appointments last year.

Duties will be based primarily on our Wakefield (Pinderfields) or Dewsbury sites, although all our medical staff are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites (including Pontefract). The main duties of the post will include

Provision of a general rheumatology service together with other consultant colleagues within the department. A specialist interest that complements those within the department will be encouraged.

Our usual clinic template is 4 hours, with 40 and 20 minutes allocated for new and follow-up patients, respectively (e.g., 2 new and 8 follow-up).

Clinics are held on all 3 of our Hospital sites, consultants will usually be on a site for the whole day, if travel between sites is required, travel time will be added to your job plan.

Supervision of junior medical staff and the specialist nursing team.

Acute rheumatology covers ward referrals, e-consultations, and GP referral triage on a weekly schedule during normal working hours. There are no out-of-hours calls.

Hot week cover for acute Rheumatology 08:00 18:00 hrs., Monday to Friday

We are excited to include in this post some GIM training time for those clinicians who are dual accredited in rheumatology and GIM.

Within the job plan for this position are up to 1.5 PA of DCC to General Internal Medicine (GIM), which is to enable the successful applicant to be part of the team delivering inpatient care to general medical inpatients.

The new department of GIM, within the Specialty and Integrated Medicine Clinical Service Unit, will be staffed by 15 dual-accredited physicians from Group 1 specialties. These consultants will work a consultant of the week model of care on a one-in-eight rota, providing a daily consultant ward round (4-hour duration). The ward will have 2 consultants each week doing a daily ward round, the consultants will change every week. Ward is based on one site.

Time in lieu after the week will be offered but not mandated and we have a mixture of people that either do or do not take time off after the weekend, which is job planned as zero hours day.

This is a brand-new service and will provide exciting opportunities for successful candidates to meet and work with colleagues from allied specialties, be involved in service development and quality improvement, as well as gain useful leadership and management experience.

The GIM PAs in colleagues job plans will be reviewed after two years in post, with the likelihood (subject to individual wishes and confirmation with your line manager) of this activity being passed on as new Group 1 specialty consultants are appointed to the organisation, allowing incumbents to return that time to their department and allow them to further develop their parent specialty interests. We make a commitment that no longer than 3 years will be needed to be provided in GIM, but we are hopeful that some colleagues will continue to partake in this rota in the in the long term.

Supporting professional activities in accordance with the trust framework, with at least a minimum of 1.5 SPAs (supporting professional activities) included in the core 10PA timetable, Additional SPA (supporting professional activities) or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and the changing requirements of the service.

Examples may include formal teaching responsibilities or departmental leadership roles.

All consultants at the trust are provided with secretarial support and an adequately equipped office, which includes IT (Information Technology) facilities.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

Medical Degree from recognised medical school MRCP or equivalent

Desirable

Postgraduate degree Medical School Prizes Audit or Case Presentations Teaching qualification/ prize

GMC Registration
Essential

Please state full GMC number Full GMC Registration with licence to practise Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for Rheumatology or within 6 months of obtaining CCT (or CESR / equivalent)

Desirable

Inclusion on the GMC general medicine register

Management Skills
Essential

Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving. Good time management.

Desirable

Possess good organisational and personal management skills

Experience
Desirable

Computer literate Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas or project work.

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