Locum Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology with General Medicine

Job overview

This is a 10 PA post for a Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology. An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to further develop and maintain our high-quality local service.

The diabetes and endocrine service allows exposure to subspecialist interests whilst also providing exposure to general medicine. The general medicine cover is split between consultant colleagues and involves ward rounds of 28 in-patients on our dedicated ward. Education and support of junior medical colleagues is important. The contribution to the acute medical take is currently on a 1:14 overnight telephone support commitment (off-site) and also a 1:14 weekend and bank holiday commitment (on-site during day) which involves post take ward rounds of acute medicine patients during the day and overnight telephone support. The on call supplement allocation is 1 PA.

Clinical advice support for other members of the multidisciplinary team is occasionally sought and is an important component (eg diabetes specialist nurses, podiatrists and midwives). Specialist diabetes and endocrine ward consultations may on occasion be necessary.

There will be requirement to undertake some outpatient clinics each week on the Princess Alexandra Hospital main site. Occasionally, the appointee may be required to work in outpatient clinics located either at St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping or Herts & Essex Hospital, Bishops Stortford. Time off in lieu will be considered (such as for weekend working).

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would provide Consultant care, advice and treatment to all patients with Diabetes and Endocrine problems within a modern, effective and integrated service.

The new consultant will undertake outpatient workload, provide inpatient care on our dedicated ward and will continue to review and develop the service to meet the requirements of the local population.

The department holds a monthly Clinical Governance meeting and all staff are encouraged to attend. Audits both local and national are supported by our audit department. The trust is dedicated to quality improvement activity and this is supported by our award-winning Quality First department. For candidates with a particular interest in this area a dedicated 1PA can be offered for quality improvement work.

The trust maintains close links with our tertiary referral centres. Our patients are well supported by partners including Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, University College London Hospital, King’s College Hospital, Queens’s Hospital, Romford and Queen’s Square Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Attendance at tertiary referral centre multidisciplinary meetings is encouraged for patient discussion and CPD (one day per month may be arranged for this purpose).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.