Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Management Experience
Demonstrable Team Leadership skills and experience
- Management Experience
Effective Team worker, valuing the experience and contributing
- Qualifications and Training
Completion of Specialty Training (CST or equivalent) or within 6 months of achieving it in relevant specialty)
- Qualifications and Training
At least 2 years of clinical experience of inpatient and outpatient Diabetes & Endocrinology (at registrar or consultant level)
- Qualifications and Training
At least 2 years of clinical experience of inpatient and outpatient Cardiology (at registrar or consultant level)
- Qualifications and Training
At least 1 year of clinical experience as a consultant at a secondary care hospital
- Teaching/Audit/Quality Improvement
Experience of Audit and Quality Improvement
- Teaching/Audit/Quality Improvement
Experience of Teaching Junior Staff
- Teaching/Audit/Quality Improvement
Experience of Undergraduate Teaching
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Academic Achievements
Publications in recognised Medicine / Medical Education Journals or Presentations at National Level
- Management Experience
Understanding and experience of delivering organisational change
- Qualifications and Training
MD, PhD or other higher degree
Job overview
The appointee will join a team of 6 existing consultants who currently deliver a mixture of inpatient and outpatient diabetes and endocrine services for the Trust. Due to the changing dynamics of chronic disease management the structure of the consultant team is under continual review in order to facilitate an efficient interface between primary and secondary care and within the partnerships across UHN ie NGH aswell.
This post will aid us to formalise and standardise a new model of delivery of care for inpatient general medicine with a special interest in diabetes and endocrinology
Main duties of the job
Core Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will be expected to take on the lead for the ward hance the importance of in depth knowledge and experience in not only diabetes and general internal medicine .
- Lead on education and supervision of the junior ward doctors targeting an optimal GMC survey review
- Lead and improve the MDT workings within the inpatient setting
- Lead through QIPs on inpatient KPIs
- To ensure that patient experience and inpatient outcomes high standards are achieved and maintained
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the role and requirements, please see attached the Job description and person specification.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology with GIM with Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Kettering, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Endocrinology and Diabetes role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 annual. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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