Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

We have an exciting opportunity to join our established Diabetes and Endocrinology Team at the L&D Hospital as a full time Diabetologist and Endocrinologist.

The specialty commitment of this post includes the provision of specialist and general outpatient clinics, consultant to consultant referrals, GP Advice and Guidance and MDT participation. The post holder will also be expected to participate in General Internal Medicine (GIM) and In-reach rota. This responsibility is shared with other departmental colleagues.

Sub-speciality interests relevant to Diabetes/ Endocrinology will be considered as is an enthusiasm for teaching, audit and research.

The Diabetes service at the L&D is led by Dr Wong with support from Dr Soo, Professor Banerjee, Dr Lim, and Dr Alraheem. The team offers a full range of adult diabetes services and work closely with other specialists often in joint clinics providing MDT care for young adults, pregnancy including gestational diabetes, diabetic foot disease, insulin pump and elderly care.

Professor Banerjee, supported by Dr Soo, Dr Wong, Dr Lim, and Dr Alraheem currently provide the endocrine service. The department has facilities for dynamic testing and radiological diagnostic facilities and provide a range of sub-speciality clinics including hypertension and pregnancy care., · To participate in the provision of a high quality out-patient service, some clinics will have dedicated Specialist Trainee support

· Patient administration

· Attend multi-disciplinary, governance, departmental and business meetings as required

· Develop a research interest

· Support the training and development of Specialist Trainees and other junior medical staff including Clinical nurse specialists

· Work with other Consultants to provide specialist Diabetes and Endocrinology advice and support to patients and other healthcare professionals

Other Tasks include:

· Active participation in the development of the services

· Undertake high quality medical audit projects and participate in the collection of data required to meet national audits and national quality standards

· Implement audit and research findings as appropriate in clinical practice

· Prepare and participate in an annual appraisal in accordance with Trust policy

· Participate and comply with the requirements for Continuing Professional Development and revalidation as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians. The trust is committed to providing the time and financial support for these activities

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

The specialty commitment of this post includes the provision of specialist and general outpatient clinics, consultant to consultant referrals, GP Advice and Guidance and MDT participation. The post holder will also be expected to participate in General Internal Medicine (GIM) and In-reach rota. This responsibility is shared with other departmental colleagues.

The GIM in-patient commitment and the Diabetes specialty in-reaching commitments will rotate in blocks of 4 weeks, to be shared with other consultant colleagues in the department. This duty is to provide ward-based care duty for the team's designated base ward (Ward 12). Elective out-patient work commitment in Diabetes and Endocrinology, will be adjusted accordingly during blocks of GIM / Diabetes in-reaching.

Weekend commitment (other than B rota on-call) for specialty support, is provided for during the GIM block, in the form of phone support (from home or on-site if doing weekend base ward round) for Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse (DISN) on both Saturday and Sunday.

Currently the Acute Medical responsibility of the post is to participate in the 'B' rota, which is a 1:10 rota. The 'B' rota consultant provides out of hours general medical cover (up to 78 years of age). The 'B' rota undertakes the traditional weekday morning and weekend post-take round of patients admitted overnight on a 1:10 rota, the physicians are also available to be called back into the hospital out of hours to deal with clinical problems.

The successful candidate will participate in the 'B' rota and share the ward based in-patient General Medical work. If review of Acute Medical services leads to change in the Acute Medical duty of this post from 'B' rota to 'A' rota participation, a corresponding reduction of the ward-based in-patient General medical duty component of the post will be made and adjusted correspondingly.

The pattern will be subject to change, in order to fit in with the requirements of the Needs Based Care model in the provision of Acute/ General Internal Medicine and Diabetes specialty in-reaching, as well as availability of out-patient clinic spaces. Elective out-patient work commitment in Diabetes and Endocrinology will be adjusted accordingly during blocks of GIM /Diabetes in-reaching