Consultant in Diabetes

As part of a major investment programme, at Ipswich Hospital, agreement has been given for a significant investment to deliver a truly transformative model for management of inpatient medical and older persons care.

**It aims to deliver**:
- Appropriately resourced 7-day consultant working
- Strengthened GIM rota, improving rotas and providing a better balance of workload across each day of the week; reducing the burden on clinicians associated with Medical Take by reducing the frequency and bolstering the post-take support
- Innovation in patient care and service delivery, allowing the right patient, to see the right clinician, at the right time (7 days per week), ensuring patients are managed from the outset, on the most appropriate ward for their condition(s).
- Early access to specialist advice
- Overall, to deliver greatly improved quality of care for our patients whilst supporting a long-term, sustainable set of consultant job plans

The successful applicant will have a shared responsibility for the inpatient bed base (consultant of the week - CoW) currently 2 weeks out of every 8 tough this will change on the appointment of an additional consultant. This appointment will facilitate weekend specialist working and allow a reduced commitment to the GIM rota with the aim of withdrawing from this in due course. When providing CoW services, clinic work does not occur, to facilitate provision of dedicated inpatient care. The successful applicant will be expected to join the general medical on call rota. This is currently approx. 1 in 16, weekends only general medical take, including post take ward round duties. This is 1 weekend day approximately every other month and provides 12 hours within the hospital, then on call over night from home. This rota id under review

Each consultant provides a general diabetes clinic, at least one specialist diabetes clinic (renal, pump, antenatal, foot) and one or more endocrine clinics per week when not on COW duties. Some consultants support the transitional clinic. There will be opportunity to develop in one or more specialist diabetes areas whilst undertaking general clinics.

We are at a very exciting time at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust as our £150 million development programme takes shape.
Over the next five years, we are changing the landscape of care, bringing additional and improved services to the 1 million people we serve in Suffolk and North East Essex.

At our Ipswich hospital site, we are in the process of building a state-of-the-art Urgent Treatment Centre, co-located with a new Emergency Department which is due to open in Summer ’24. We have a new Acute Medical Same Day Emergency Care unit, co-located with our Medical Emergency Assessment Unit, a recently built Acute Respiratory Care Unit and newly opened new Surgical Assessment Unit. We have an award-winning Frailty Assessment Base, linking directly with our virtual ward programme and community teams, including a comprehensive set of admission avoidance services within our integrated primary and secondary care system. Over the past couple of years, we have also heavily invested in our ward refurbishment programme; ensuring maximised ward specialty adjacencies, refurbishments to include dementia friendly and additional ward areas created to support seasonal pressures.

**We have a simple philosophy**: Time Matters. Time matters for our patients, their families and our staff. By focusing on time, we can remove unnecessary stress and frustration - giving our patients a better experience and to make sure you have more time to care and make the most of your skills.

The post holder will be expected to provide appropriate clinical leadership to the progressive, innovative multidisciplinary team, in conjunction with the other consultant and ward sisters and senior diabetes nurses. The post-holder will help develop the diabetes and endocrinology services appropriate to the need of the population, in partnership with the other consultant colleagues in the department and with support from Clinical Director.

The post holder will be the clinical supervisor of some of the juniors (shared), and there is the opportunity to become an educational supervisor after appropriate training if desired. This activity is funded separately by the Post Graduate Centre. There is an established faculty of supervisors to provide support and education. We offer training to Cambridge and University of East Anglia medical students and the post holder will be expected to help deliver Module 6 education for UEA medical students as part of a rostered programme.

We have an active post graduate centre and the post holder will be expected to contribute to the foundation, CMT, VTS and SpR teaching programmes in addition to student, nursing and allied health professionals as required.

The departmental service and educational meeting is every Monday lunchtime and each consultant takes turns to deliver this. There are gr