Locum Consultant - Diabetes & Endocrinology | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - ref. c91768223
Job overview
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Locum Consultant or the Diabetes and Endocrinology service. The successful candidate will join a friendly and progressive team of and will be encouraged to develop and support further development of the service.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities of the post:
- To have responsibility for ensuring a commitment to provide a high quality of Diabetes & Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine Services to patients by continual development of practice in the light of evidence-base, and Clinical standards
- To provide advice to colleagues in other specialities on diabetes and endocrinological problems.
- To provide a comprehensive outpatient service for Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine
- To provide support for community diabetes team and primary care
- To provide high quality inpatient diabetes service in collaboration with other colleagues and Diabetes Specialist Nurses
- To support teaching and training of junior medical staff, medical students and postgraduate medical education.
- Educational and clinical supervision of trainees of the department along with other colleagues
- To support and encourage audit and research
- To actively participate in CME and personal development plans
- To participate in acute medical on calls (currently 1:19) and provide weekend morning ward rounds on a 1:4 basis.
Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof.
This Locum Consultant post is based on 10 Programmed Activities per week and is to provide consultancy cover for a 12 month period. Additional Programmed Activities may be available subject to service needs, e.g. participation on the General Medical on-call rota.The successful candidate will work in collaboration with Consultant Physicians, Consultant Endocrinologists, the Diabetes Specialist Team and Primary Care Professionals to provide quality services for people with Diabetes.
The proposed job plan splits the workload into a “hot week” and “speciality weeks”. A final job plan will be agreed following discussion with the successful candidate and the Clinical Director but examples of what the speciality week & hot week will look like are:-
Hot week: 1 of 4
During this week the Consultant will be responsible for in-patients (12 patients) on the
ward 15, doing daily ward rounds, outliers and seeing ward referrals Monday - Friday.
A Consultant ward round will also be done on a Saturday morning reviewing new transferred patients, potential discharges and any sick patients. The Consultant will also provide clinical supervision for trainees and Diabetes Specialist Nurses.The Consultant has only one clinic in the afternoon during this week.
Hot week 2 of 4
During this week the Consultant will provide daily morning ward rounds (16 patients) and undertake two clinics in the afternoon.
Specialty week 3 and 4
During this week the Consultant will have no inpatient commitments but will have specialty Diabetes and Endocrine clinics and time for Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025