Paediatric Rheumatology Substantive Consultant

Applications are invited from candidates with appropriate training and experience for the post of Consultant in Paediatric Rheumatology at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 10 PA, primarily working at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre for outpatient-based care. Inpatient and acute care is provided with support from paediatric services at the Oxford Children's Hospital based at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

The post-holder will join the current consultant team of Paediatric Rheumatology consultants and a well-established clinical team working in the key areas of Paediatric Rheumatology and Chronic Pain. Candidates for this post should have experience managing complex autoinflammation and hyperinflammation to help expand this aspect of the service.

This appointment is on a pro-rata full-time basis, collectively providing 3.15 whole time equivalent consultants at this Paediatric Rheumatology and Chronic Pain tertiary centre.

Oxford is recognised as an NHS England designated provider of tertiary paediatric rheumatology specialist services (OXPARC), established in 2004, providing a secondary and tertiary care service for much of Thames Valley. Additional specialist services provided include a skeletal dysplasia service, sports medicine and autoinflammatory clinic. The service includes the Oxford Children and Young People's Chronic Pain (OXCYPP) service.

The position is available on a 10 PA job plan including a 1:3 telephone on-call commitment.

To support the clinical team in providing a high quality secondary and tertiary rheumatology service to the children and adolescents of Oxfordshire, Thames Valley and neighbouring counties

To provide care for acutely unwell children and young people in the paediatric and intensive care setting where diagnosis is uncertain or requires multispecialty input, including complex multisystem inflammatory illnesses, hyperinflammation, HLH/MAS etc

To provide comprehensive care for complex autoinflammation including periodic fevers, to help expand this aspect of the service.

To support a comprehensive paediatric chronic pain service and to link closely with the programme director for rehabilitation service, Dr Konrad Jacobs, Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

To support the multidisciplinary team and participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings

To support and continue to develop clinical collaboration with other paediatric services in Oxford

To provide clinical care, education and support for further development of outreach services and a clinical network for paediatric rheumatology across Oxfordshire and neighbouring areas.

To contribute to recruitment and collection of data for established research portfolio.

To contribute to the development of the research portfolio

To contribute to paediatric training in rheumatology and to contribute to the provision of rheumatology teaching for other postgraduate trainees. Establish and develop sub-specialty training in paediatric rheumatology.

To comply with the recommendations of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health over the provision of acute and specialty services for children

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. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

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Professional qualifications

Desirable: - Higher medical degree MSc; - Higher medical degree PhD or MD

Professional training

Desirable: - Clinical academic or research fellowship in a major UK centre or UK accredited equivalent; - Management qualification

Work experience

Level of responsibility

Essential: - Demonstrable ability to make independent, high-level clinical decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical cases

Leadership skills

Essential: - Evidence of leadership in clinical and management setting

Desirable: - Leadership experience in regional or national project; - Leadership qualification

Organisation and management skills

Essential: - Effective administrative and time management skills. Experience in clinical management

Desirable: - Evidence of additional management responsibilities

Professional - extra skills or achievements

Essential: - Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork and service improvement

Communication and interpersonal skills

Essential: - Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Able to communicate well with children, parents and teams

Desirable: - Demonstrable evidence of effective and collaborative working with multidisciplinary team (MDT) colleagues

Teaching and training skills

Essential: - Experience of formal and informal contribution to teaching and training

Research skills

Essential: - Experience in recruiting and contributing to research studies and clinical trials; - GCP or equivalent training

Desirable: - Presentations at national and international meetings; - Peer reviewed publications