Consultant in Endocrinology, Diabetes and General Medicine

Job overview

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust wish to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and cheerful Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant to join their multidisciplinary team. The Homerton Hospital has an excellent reputation on social media with junior doctors, attracting the highest calibre of trainee, and high-quality consultants.

This recruitment is part of the Trust's planned expansion of the department. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals to help us continue to deliver a high standard service and develop it further. The role initially comprises of 10 programmed activities (PAs) consisting of inpatient and outpatient duties with on call commitments . The postholder will be involved in the development of the service.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to provide specialist expertise in Endocrinology and Diabetes. In addition, the post holder will take part in acute medical on-take as part of the on-call medical rota.

The post holder will be expected to take part in 3 ½ outpatient clinics in diabetes and endocrinology each week.

These clinics will cover a range of endocrine conditions and will involve a mixture of new and follow up patients (c. 3 new: 6 follow up)

The post holder may be required to do clinics in the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health and Wellbeing Centre (SLG) on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford (previously the 2012 Olympic Polyclinic) where many Homerton outpatient clinics are now being run and the IT systems and healthcare support is fully integrated.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the accompanying documentation for a full description of the role and the responsibilities associated with it.