Consultant Rheumatologist 7PAs

This role will incorporate fully job planned clinical oversight of our large, busy infusion unit. The post holder will coordinate the department's medical oversight of the service working as part of an MDT comprising senior nurse specialists, prescribing pharmacist and administrative support. The post holder will oversee training / mentoring of the DCU nursing team, middle grade doctors and MDT members to ensure the safety and quality of the service provided.

In addition, this post will include responsibility long term follow up of a small cohort of patients with connective tissue disorders previously under the care of a consultant now retiring. The post includes contribution to the low frequency rheumatology on-call service for speciality referrals only and management of a small number of in patients.

This is a 7PA innovative post created to support our expanding Connective Tissue Disease Service to deliver local and regional specialised commissioned services. The successful applicant will have a higher degree in a relevant research area, have an outstanding record in delivering tertiary level care and have sufficient experience in supporting phase 2, 3 and 4 clinical trials to allow you take a lead role in expanding the departments clinical research activity in connective tissue disorders. We are keen to support applicants who wish to develop a research interest, now or in the future, capitalising on our excellent links with the Musculoskeletal Research Group at Newcastle University and associated research groups working in the field at Newcastle University.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.