Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity for a full time Consultant in Diabetes/Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine to join the existing team working across WTWA Hospitals.

The successful candidate with join 7 Consultant Diabetes/Endocrinologists who work across WTWA. We are well supported by middle grade doctors including specialists trainees, specialty doctors.    The diabetes/endocrinology aspect of this post will be primarily based at Wythenshawe, Withington and Trafford with the options of clinics at Altrincham to the successful candidates preferences and the needs of the service.  The Diabetes and Endocrinology service provides the full spectrum and secondary and tertiary services.  

We are keen to attract candidates interested in innovative ways to move the specialist services forward and also keen to recruit a colleagues who will contribute to the wider hospital including but not limited to supporting management and training (both undergraduate and postgraduate) activities.  There are regular multidisciplinary teams meetings. 

Main duties of the job

This appointment will be made in accordance with the 2023 Consultant Contract Terms and Conditions.  The Job Descriptions indicates the main duties of the post which maybe reviewed in light of experience and developments within the service.  Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the post holder.  

This is a full time 10 PA post.  Offers of less than full time work or job shares would also be considered.

The multidisciplinary team includes Specialist nurses, psychologists and specialist podiatry.

Apart from the outpatient activity, the successful candidate would spend over a third of their weekday job plan delivering consultant led care on a newly developed Medical Specialties Ward.  This is a 23 bedded ward caring for patients with a variety of presenting conditions. They would manage the patients with 2 other consultants with specialist interests in other disciplines i.e. renal. It would be expected they provide teaching and supervision to the juniors on the ward and lead on service delivery, improvement and relevant QIP. 

 

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

 

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

 

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.