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