Consultant in Endocrinology

Job summary

Our Enhanced Welcome package includes an additional £20,000 and relocation costs to thank you for choosing to work at our trust and your new journey with ESNEFT.

An opportunity has arisen to join our team atDiabetes and Endocrine Department at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust - Ipswich Site.

We are inviting applications for a full time Consultant in Endocrinology & Diabetes with GIM (General Internal Medicine).

Applicants will have completed CCT or be within 6 months of obtaining it or equivalent (CESR).

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will:

Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care

Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines

Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E

Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care

Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities are:

General responsibilities including participation in Consultant on call rota

Specialist Clinics

Outpatient clinics

Operating: as per specialty

Teaching

Other care of inpatients or outpatients

Clinical and other administration as required by agreement

Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates Participation in Clinical Governance

Clinical Governance

The post-holder will:

Comply with the Trusts Clinical Governance policy, including clinical risk management, data collection and regular departmental audit projects

Person Specification

interview

Essential

MRCP or equivalent Full registration with GMC Specialist Register for Diabetes and Endocrinology and General (Internal) Medicine or within six months of expected date of CCT

Desirable

Training in appraisal techniques Postgraduate thesis DAFNE accreditation

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