Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology

Job responsibilities

The West Suffolk Hospital is a District General Hospital built in 1974. It serves a population of around 280,000 in the western part of Suffolk and southern part of West Norfolk.

Acute medical services are currently provided by sixteen (full time equivalent) physicians. The Hospital has a 24-hour Accident and Emergency Department and a full range of Medical, Surgical and other specialties, with a total of around 480 beds. In addition, there is a Day Surgery Unit and a Hospice with a 10 bedded unit. Acute Medicine has 26 assessment beds and short stay ward of 34 beds including an Ambulatory Care Unit. There is a newly developed Cardiac Centre which opened in November 2018 with a wide range of facilities.In-patients are triaged to their most appropriate medical speciality ward e.g. cardiac, acute respiratory, stroke unit etc. There is a well-structured multidisciplinary team meeting on each ward which will set goals to facilitate a reduction in length of stay.

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Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Special Training

Essential

• MRCP or equivalent
• Full GMC registration
• Entry on the GMC specialist register in Diabetes/Endocrinology and General (Internal) Medicine or be within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training at the time of interview.

Desirable

• MD or PhD

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine.
• Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of medical patients
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Diabetes/Endocrinology
• Experience in management of Diabetes/Endocrine inpatients and outpatients
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Diabetes/Endocrine patients

Desirable

• Experience in specialised diabetes clinics including insulin pump and pregnancy.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Teaching & Training

Essential

• Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs (or equivalent)
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Able to demonstrate experience of delivering teaching

Desirable

• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research
• Applicant to have attended a teaching course

Management & Audit Training

Essential

• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the Diabetes/Endocrinology service o Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities
• Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery
• Experience of audit management
• Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential

• Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
• The ability to work as a team member
• Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Caring attitude to patients
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance

Special Aptitudes

Essential

• Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative
• Enthusiasm and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards
• To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidencebased best practice
• Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team
• To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience

Appraisal

Essential

• To have training and experience in appraisal systems

Research & Publications

Essential

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• Publications in peer reviewed journals

Desirable

• Ability to supervise research projects

Clinical Governance

Essential

• To have a broad understanding of all elements of, and a commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance

Standards

Essential

• To have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of "Good Medical Practice" from the GMC

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. ...