Locum Consultant Physician with interest in Diabetes and Endocrine

Job title:

Locum Consultant Physician with interest in Diabetes and Endocrine

Company

British Medical Journal

Job description

We are excited to offer one fixed term consultant post at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, working alongside our current substantive consultant already in post in Diabetes and Endocrine.We are looking for experienced applicant with CCT or within 6 months of achieving it.Each role is a 10 PA post with GIM on-call commitments rostered appropriately. We will consider less than full time job plan for either post.Main duties of the jobThe Diabetes and Endocrine department provides services on both acute sites of the Trust (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital). The appointees will join Dr Bitat in this replacement on the Tunbridge Wells site.The expected full-time commitment for these posts will average to 10 PAs per week, made up of 8 DPAs and 2 SPAs. The successful applicants will share medical responsibility for managing up to a 32 bedded Diabetes and Endocrine inpatient ward, with their other D& E colleagues, with appropriate junior medical doctor support. The ward has at least 1 registrar grade, 3 F2/GPST/IMT trainees, 2 FY1 trainee.The Department is looking for a consultant to take over Diabetic foot clinics held weekly alongside our Vascular Surgeon from GSTT.About usThe Trust was formed in April 2000 by the merger of the Mid Kent Healthcare Trust and the Kent & Sussex Weald NHS Trust. It provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 460,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Its major hospitals are the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital. The Trust’s Headquarters are at Maidstone Hospital. The Trust’s Chairman is Mr David Highton, the Chief Executive is Mr Miles Scott and the Medical Director is Dr Peter Maskell. Clinical services are organised into nine Directorates. The Clinical Director for Specialist Medicine, which encompasses Respiratory Medicine, is Dr Simon Webster.Job description
Job responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
• To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction.
• To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
• To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
• To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
• To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• GMC Registration
• MRCP or equivalent

Desirable

• Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
• Other degrees, eg BSc, MSc, MD, PhD
• A sub-specialist interest complimentary to those of current staff in the department
• Inclusion on Specialist Register or be within receipt of CCT within 6 months of interview

Research
Essential

• An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature

Desirable

• Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Experience
Essential

• Wide experience in general medicine, diabetes & endocrinology
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for patients

Desirable

• DAFNE
• Insulin pumps

Employer details
Employer nameMaidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustAddressTunbridge Wells HospitalTonbridge RoadTunbridge WellsTN2 4NJAny attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.359-MSD0952Company

Expected salary

£99532 – 131964 per year

Location

Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Job date

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:17:56 GMT

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