Junior Clinical Research Fellow in Rheumatology

You will provide a clinical service with Rheumatology colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness as an inpatient and as an outpatient according to the attached Job Plan. Duties will include providing support for the Medical and Surgical inpatients in the form of Ward Referral opinions and supervision of inpatient care for patients under Rheumatology as part of the junior and middle grade Rheumatology Team -1 x Foundation Year 1 Doctor and 1 x StR in Rheumatology, supervised by 3 Rheumatology Consultants. Outpatient work will include 3 outpatient sessions at RGH and DSH to include specialty clinics in Biologic therapy, Lupus, Ankylosing Spondylitis and Osteoporosis. There will also be a focus on the rapid assessment of Early Arthritis in an outpatient setting.

THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR UP TO 3 YEARS DUE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE

You will provide a clinical service with Rheumatology colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness as an inpatient and as an outpatient according to the attached Job Plan. Duties will include providing support for the Medical and Surgical inpatients in the form of Ward Referral opinions and supervision of inpatient care for patients under Rheumatology as part of the junior and middle grade Rheumatology Team -1 x Foundation Year 1 Doctor and 1 x StR in Rheumatology, supervised by 3 Rheumatology Consultants. Outpatient work will include 3 outpatient sessions at RGH and DSH to include specialty clinics in Biologic therapy, Lupus, Ankylosing Spondylitis and Osteoporosis. There will also be a focus on the rapid assessment of Early Arthritis in an outpatient setting.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Cwm Taf University Health Board was formally established on 1stOctober 2009 and combined the former Cwm Taf NHS Health Board with 3 local health boards.

Cwm Taf University Health Board is the fifth largest LHB in Wales with an operating income of over £300 million.

In total, Cwm Taf University Health Board employs over 7,600 staff across two District General Hospital sites – Prince Charles which opened in 1978 and Royal Glamorgan Hospital, which opened in 1999, and seven smaller community hospitals. It also has employees in the local health communities.

POPULATION SERVED BY THE HEALTH BOARD

Cwm Taf University Health Board currently provides services to around 330,000 people. The Health Board will primarily serve the residents of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff as well as residents of North Cardiff, parts of the Rhymney Valley, South Powys and other adjacent health communities. Residents of Rhondda Cynon Taff, from Treherbert and Maerdy in the North to Ynysybwl, Llantrisant and Beddau in the South, the Cynon Valley in the centre and Merthyr Tydfil and the Rhymney Valley in the East will use the services provided by the Health Board.

You will provide a clinical service with Rheumatology colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness as an inpatient and as an outpatient according to the attached Job Plan. Duties will include providing support for the Medical and Surgical inpatients in the form of Ward Referral opinions and supervision of inpatient care for patients under Rheumatology as part of the junior and middle grade Rheumatology Team -1 x Foundation Year 1 Doctor and 1 x StR in Rheumatology, supervised by 3 Rheumatology Consultants. Outpatient work will include 3 outpatient sessions at RGH and DSH to include speciality clinics in Biologic therapy, Lupus, Ankylosing Spondylitis and Osteoporosis. There will also be a focus on the rapid assessment of Early Arthritis in an outpatient setting.