Paediatric Rheumatology Substantive Consultant

NHS Jobs; Oxford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Paediatric Rheumatology Substantive Consultant to provide expert care for children and young people with rheumatologic conditions. The role involves managing acutely unwell patients in paediatric and intensive care settings, with strong emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration and research involvement.

You will contribute to developing a comprehensive paediatric rheumatology service, sub-specialty training, teaching for trainees,

Responsibilities

• Support the clinical team in providing a high quality secondary and tertiary rheumatology service for children and adolescents in Oxfordshire, Thames Valley and neighbouring counties.
• Care for acutely unwell children and young people in paediatric and intensive care settings where diagnosis is uncertain or multispecialty input is required.
• Address complex autoinflammation, including periodic fever syndromes, hyperinflammation, HLH/MAS as part of the service.
• Support a comprehensive paediatric chronic pain service and collaborate with the rehabilitation programme director and team.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary meetings and develop clinical collaborations with paediatric services across Oxfordshire and neighbouring areas.
• Contribute to recruitment and data collection for the established research portfolio and to development of the research portfolio.
• Contribute to paediatric rheumatology training and teaching for postgraduate trainees; establish and develop sub-specialty training in paediatric rheumatology.
• Comply with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recommendations for acute and specialty services for children.

Job description

Paediatric Rheumatology Substantive Consultant

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

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences