# Locum Consultant in Rheumatology

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Locum Consultant Rheumatologist to join our team at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide personalized care for patients in an outpatient setting, respond to GP advice and guidance requests, triage new referrals, and provide ward consultations to inpatients. The role also involves contributing to multidisciplinary teams, supporting education and training of junior doctors, and getting involved in research.

**Main Duties of the Job:**

- Provide continuing responsibility for the care of patients

- Work closely with consultant colleagues to ensure proper functioning of the Care Group and continuity of care for patients

- Work as part of the clinical team to meet waiting list targets

- Update education in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine (GiM) and fulfill Continuing Medical Education (CME) and General Medical Council (GMC) revalidation requirements

- Take part in the training of undergraduate and postgraduate doctors and in the professional development of other staff groups

**Person Specification:**

- Full registration with the GMC

- Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Rheumatology (or within 3 months of date of interview)

- MRCP (UK or Ireland)

- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining the UK CCST in Rheumatology and GiM

- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

- Understanding and experience of all aspects of clinical governance

- Teaching medical undergraduates, postgraduates, nursing, and other healthcare professionals

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year

- Fixed-term contract for 3 months

- Part-time working pattern

## Skills

### Required
- Rheumatology
- General Internal Medicine
- clinical governance
- patient care
- multidisciplinary teams
- education and training
- research

### Nice to have
- PhD or MD
- established expertise in a specialist field of rheumatology
- experience in the design, recruitment, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials
- basic scientific research
- original research publications in peer-reviewed journals

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