Job Description
Come and work at UHDB NHS Foundation Trust and enjoy some of the UK’s most breath taking countryside on your doorstep.
We are looking for two consultants to join our dynamic and friendly Rheumatology team.
The area offers the best of both worlds – cosmopolitan city life and stunning countryside. Derby and Burton offer excellent locations in which to work and live with good schools and great transport links.
Our large Rheumatology department is well known for its friendliness and team-working. The consultants and excellent Nurse and AHP teams provide for Derby, East Staffordshire and the surrounding areas. The merger between Derby Hospitals and Burton Hospitals has made this an exciting time as it has strengthened and expanded our provision of Specialist Rheumatology for a population of 1 Million. We are involved in a range of MDT services including Interstitial Lung Disease, Renal, Orthopaedic, MSK Radiology, Obstetric, Dermatology and Paediatric.
We are a major teaching centre for medical students from the University of Nottingham, including the Graduate Entry School and the successful candidate would have designated time for teaching. In addition we have both SpR and GpVTS trainees working in the department.
Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive Rheumatology service to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton & surrounding areas, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of illness, & the proper functioning of the department.
Responsibility for the continuing care & treatment of patients in your charge & personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in your job plan, allowing for all proper delegation to, & training of your staff.
Provision of cover for your consultant colleagues during reasonable periods of leave, including care of patients & supervision of junior doctors. (A minimum of 6 weeks notice is to be given for all leave requests).
Any responsibility which relates to a special interest.
Responsibility for the professional supervision & management of junior medical staff, carrying out teaching, examination & accreditation duties as required & for contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate & continuing medical education activity, locally & nationally as appropriate.
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
- On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
- Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
- We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
- An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – 6th largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
- We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
- We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
- We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day
These are a substantive full-time consultant posts and we would welcome those seeking less than full- time work to also apply. The post will involve:
- Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of a RheumatologyService
- To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Rheumatology service.
- Teaching & training of junior staff, medical students
- To actively participate in both departmental & Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance & audit.
- To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education (CME).
The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant’s duties, responsibilities & objectives. It will cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education & managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal & external. In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, & details of the support required by the consultant to fulfill the job plan & the objectives.
We strongly believe that the job plan needs to be sustainable and should enable the successful candidate to maintain a good work-life balance. As a newly merged organisation, we expect flexibility, and candidates should to be able to work across all sites of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Foundation Trust should the need arise.
There is an opportunity to deliver SIFT funded teaching Activities which will be remunerated in addition to the 10 PA job plan.