Locum Rheumatology Consultant

The post holder will join our current team in caring for patients in the outpatient clinic. The postholder will support the team with inpatient, ambulatory care and urgent referrals. Inpatients are admitted under general medical teams. The post holder will support the SpR and the nurses with patient queries and liaise with hospital colleagues and GPs via the advice and guidance portal.

Applicants must have the MRCP (or equivalent specialist qualification) and hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).Applicants must also be on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council (UK).

Applicants are invited to join the Whittington Health NHS Trust Rheumatology team for a 10 PA fixed term consultant post.The Trust is an Integrated Care (Acute & Community) Organisation, and the Hospital has most key medical and surgical specialities represented, with high calibre Consultant colleagues.

The Department of Rheumatology is a core service within the Integrated Care Support Unit (ICSU) for Emergency & Integrated Medicine (EIM) at Whittington Hospital. As an Integrated Care Organisation, Whittington Health is commissioned to provide acute and community services to meet the needs of our diverse population. This means the Trust is well placed to deliver 21st century healthcare that crosses the traditional boundaries between primary and secondary care. Our mission is "Helping local people live longer, healthier lives"., Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.