Consultant in Endocrinology

Job overview

We are looking for a new consultant teaching hospital endocrinologist to join Miles Levy, Narendra Reddy, Shailesh Gohil and Amy Morrison in the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

We wish to appoint a secondary / tertiary level endocrinologist preferably with a sub-specialist interest, who wishes to develop the service. The job will have no diabetes outpatient commitments or general internal medicine ward cover.

We are keen to encourage applicants who might develop a research and teaching interest.  The role could be molded around the interests of the successful applicant.

We encourage applicants to discuss this further with one or all of the consultants if there are queries about the post.

Main duties of the job

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is fully committed to Continuing Medical Education for consultants.

The successful candidate will have training and specialist certification in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General (internal) Medicine and will provide a safe and efficient specialist Endocrinology service for UHL while contributing to acute medicine service requirements.  Key duties of this post include:

Contribute to delivery of care for patients with complex endocrine needs in secondary care.

Participate in annual job planning and appraisal. Post holder will be required to maintain their continuing professional development for successful revalidation.

Undertake statutory and mandatory training and essential to job role training determined by the department and CMG.

Education: Teaching and Training

All Consultants are expected to contribute to teaching and training of undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees as part of their role as a Consultant in UHL.

Consultants will normally have undergraduate medical students placed with them during clinical duties and are expected to teach alongside clinical service work. Similarly, Consultants will normally be involved in clinical supervision of postgraduate trainees working within UHL.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The detailed job description and main responsibilities are included as an attachment to this advert.

Key responsibilities include:

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

• Responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.
• Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences.
• To participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs and commissioners within the local CCGs.
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures;
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally.
• Participating in medical audit, the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes and in CPD. CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.
• In line with GMC Good Medical Practice it is the responsibility of the post-holder to ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the area of work.
• The post-holder is expected to respond in a timely fashion to legitimate requests from Trust officers – this might include investigations of incidents or complaints.
• The post-holder is expected to participate in teaching and training of medical students, junior staff and other clinical staff groups. The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty. If appropriate the post-holder will be named in the contract of junior staff as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as an initial source of advice to such doctors regarding their careers.
• The post-holder is expected to participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose.
• The post-holder will be expected to undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role.
• The post-holder will be required to maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate. As per the Trust requirement the successful candidate will be required to have annual appraisal and attend / keep fully up to date with statutory and mandatory training as stipulated.