Job summary
- Main area
- Endocrinology and Diabetes/ General internal medicine
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Job plan to be determined
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (GIM on-call)
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6253673
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant - Endocrinology and Diabetes
Consultant
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
This post is based the department of Diabetes and Endocrinology supporting the work of the Directorate in delivering inpatient services and participating in speciality outpatient clinics in Diabetes and Endocrinology. The post provides training and experience in specialty diabetes clinic such as antenatal diabetes care, insulin pumps (CSII), community diabetes care, diabetic foot care, paediatric to adult diabetes transition clinics etc. and general adult endocrinology including access to specialist endocrinology via pituitary MDT at Salford Royal Hospital and opportunities to sit in on paediatric diabetes clinics.
The inpatient department provides an exciting opportunity to develop high quality skills in Inpatient Diabetes management and Endocrine Dynamic function testing.
The Integrated Diabetes Department works closely with 2 diabetes specialist nurses allocated for Inpatient care, and a nurse educator. The inpatient DSNs work closely with 3 other DSN colleagues mainly based in the community.
Stockport benefits from a dual trained Diabetes Midwife/ DSN who is a national champion for Diabetes and pregnancy care and like the rest of the team is Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) trained.
The department operates a consultant of the week model for inpatient ward cover.
We are also about to start an exciting collaboration with East Cheshire to provide support inpatient support and endocrine clinics.
Main duties of the job
You will be an enthusiastic educator and be expected to participate in teaching and mentoring of junior clinicians and students.
A mentor and supervise the training of junior medical staff on the team in conjunction with the other consultant physicians in the department.
Jointly manage with the other consultants in the department patients admitted to the medical ward base.
Provide specialist in reach to the Acute Medical Unit and see diabetes and endocrinology in patient referrals.
Competently assess and manage new and follow up patients in diabetes and endocrine clinics.
Provide diabetes advice and clinical care to the diabetes antenatal service.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 32-34 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates will participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
Participate in regular departmental audit and help with/develop a research program.
Work towards models of integrated care with primary health care providers.
Participation in the General Medical on-call service.
Contribute to the ongoing service developments to meet the changing demands on the speciality.
In general, it is anticipated that the consultant will provide medical leadership and professional accountability for the patients on under his/her care
Work within the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective team working in the provision of acute care to patients.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
- If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification MBChB
- MRCP
- CCST or its equivalent or within 6 months at interview in General Internal Medicine and Diabetes and Endocrinology
Desirable criteria
- MD or PhD
Training
Essential criteria
- Senior Registrar / Specialty Trainee in General Internal Medicine & Diabetes & Endocrinology
Experience
Essential criteria
- A broad training which demonstrates appropriate experience in and a positive attitude towards Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Comprehensive patient management
- Experience in and commitment to post graduate and undergraduate education
Desirable criteria
- Extensive experience in diabetes technologies, diabetes antenatal care, young adult diabetes, diabetic foot disease.
- Evidence of training in teaching skills
Personal skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
- Ability to form good professional relationships with all departments and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of supervision of junior medical staff and relevant staff in other disciplines’ staff
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Woolridge
- Job title
- Associate Divisional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07876563273
- Additional information
Ngai Kong - Associate Medical Director
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