Rheumatology Clinical Fellow | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust

The appointee will have regular Rheumatology outpatient clinics, injection clinics and emergency clinics.

The appointee will work closely with the Biologics Administrator ensuring rapid and safe escalation to biologics when required and will attend the weekly Virtual Biologics Clinic as part of this role.

The appointee will also work closely with and support the Early Inflammatory Arthritis Coordinator, to ensure compliance with National EIA Audit requirements, resolve audit queries and maintain a complete database of patients seen through this service.

The appointee will be expected to cross cover for the Rheumatology SpR in seeing ward referrals at King George Hospital and work alongside Consultant colleagues to provide full clinical Services in Rheumatology, including support to nursing staff.

An electronic Advice and Guidance service is provided to support primary care in obtaining rapid advice and prevent unnecessary referrals. This service is provided by a weekly rota, including all Rheumatology doctors.

The post holder will provide repeat prescriptions for DMARDs for patients who do not have a Shared Care Guideline in place, following requests from the DMARD monitoring nurse, emails or nurse advice line. The post holder will also complete the subcutaneous methotrexate prescriptions, IM depomedrone prescriptions for the nurse clinic, infusion prescriptions (approx 40-50/week) and the KGH healthcare at home Prescriptions (35-40/ week).

The post holder will be expected to attend departmental Business, Quality and Safety and Academic meetings and to take part in continued professional development and Medical Audit activities in line with RCP guidelines and will contribute to the effective functioning of the Department

The appointee and will be expected to undertake education and supervision of medical students. Attendance at the monthly Essex Rheumatology Association (ERA) meetings is timetabled as part of SPA activity.

The post holder will support the delivery of the National Health Service Plan, which includes e-Referrals for Indirect and Direct Booking of Outpatients. The post holder will be expected to work alongside colleagues in developing and delivering services and to actively manage patients to ensure compliance with RTT targets.

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We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across northeast London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.