Job summary
- Main area
- Rheumatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-6401937-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 10 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
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Consultant in Acute General Medicine (AGM) and Rheumatology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
CONSULTANT IN ACUTE GENERAL MEDICINE (AGM) AND RHEUMATOLOGY
Applications are invited for a consultant post in Acute General Medicine (AGM) and Rheumatology at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUHFT). The OUH NHS Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Churchill Hospital and the Horton General Hospital. Applicants will be based mainly at the Horton Hospital with sessions at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
This is an exciting time to join AGM and Rheumatology at OUHFT and become part of a consultant workforce with a reputation for excellence. We are seeking enthusiastic colleagues who are skilled in the delivery of acute medical care and the interface with the Emergency Department and other hospital specialties. The post offers integration with a large rheumatology department which has strong academic links to the University of Oxford.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
The post-holder’s principal duties will be delivered at the Horton Hospital, but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations. The post-holder will provide consultant physician services for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, including care of acute admissions, care of outpatients, leading ward rounds and other professional activities relating to Acute General Medicine and Rheumatology.
AGM at the Horton Hospital:
The department consists of an Emergency Assessment Unit (18 beds), short stay ward (18 beds) and 2 general medical wards (28 and 30 beds). AGM consultants also provide medical care for patients on a 4-bed critical care unit (CCU) providing level 2 care, supported by anaesthetic colleagues.
There is a team of at least 8 WTE general physicians delivering AGM at the Horton. The majority of consultants work across both JR and Horton sites which helps to maintain excellent levels of communication and cohesiveness across the sites. The current consultant body consists of general physicians with specialist interests in Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Diabetes, Endocrinology and Geratology. The department receives regular specialist input from Respiratory, Acute Oncology and Palliative care.
Inpatient teams are ward-based and consultants manage approximately 20 inpatients supported by a team of junior doctors comprising an ST3+, IMT/CMT/FY2/GPVTS and FY1
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refrain to the Job Description attached, including Personal Specification and indicative job plan.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Medical Degree (MBChB, MBBS)
- MRCP or equivalent
- CCT in General or Acute Internal Medicine and CCT in Rheumatology or Registration on the GMC specialist register in Acute/ General Internal Medicine/Rheumatology or Are within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
- GMC Registration Full registration and licence to practise
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Training in General Medicine/Rheumatology to specialist level or equivalent.
- Experience in acute general medicine (minimum of 12 months at SpR or consultant level)
- Demonstrable experience of working in clinical rheumatology across a broad spectrum of conditions
- Broad experience of acute general medicine
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completed and published research.
- Experience in management of frail elderly in acute setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Sufficient organisational skills to function as a consultant
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Evidence of interdisciplinary and multi-professional working
- Evidence of flexibility and open to innovative ways of working
- Excellent written English
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Ability to support departmental research.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership in NHS, research, teaching, professional bodies or service development
- Management qualification.
- Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
- Prior experience with clinical information systems.
- Proven ability to communicate in written form (publications, reports etc).
- Education qualification
- Experience as clinical or educational supervisor
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Raashid Luqmani
- Job title
- Consultant Rheumatologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Sudhir Singh - Clinical Director AGM
tel: 01865 234848
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