Locum Consultant Diabetes & Endocrine

We are looking for a 6 month Locum Consultant to cover a vacancy we have within the Diabetes/Endocrine Department.

This is a locum post and has been created to cover the maternity leave of one of the consultants. The post is for 10 Programmed Activities.

Following the implementation of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey clinical strategy, the department has also seen significant expansion in workload. We are seeking a highly motivated consultant colleague to provide excellent acute care and develop new service pathways for this cohort of patients.

Main duties of the job

Each of the diabetes/ endocrinology consultants will be in charge of in-patients (we work a ward based system and look after a 22 bedded ward and allocated outliers) for 2 weeks for every 8 weeks (1:4 rota, shared with 3 other consultants), during which period, he or she is expected to do three full ward rounds a week, as well as daily review of new patients transferred to the ward and those who need senior review. The consultant in charge of the wards is also expected to take part in daily board rounds as well as facilitate timely discharge of patients.

The balance of 6 weeks out of 8 is on the non-wards rota described below. The acute medical share of workload may overlap and will need clinic cancellations to reflect the same.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCP or Equivalent
• CCST/CCT or equivalent in Diabetes and Endocrine and acute or general medicine and on the specialist register
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients with acute and chronic rheumatic diseases

Desirable

• Post Graduate degree

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients and relatives

Desirable

• Training/qualification in leadership and management
• Experience of service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Posters/Presentations at Regional and National meetings Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge and participation of clinical audit
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Experience on providing high quality training and education to undergraduates and postgraduates

Desirable

• Posters/Presentations at Regional and National meetings

Other Requirements

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and an ability to relate to staff and patients.
• Knowledge of resource management issues.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Computer literate
• Willingness to work flexibly as part of a team
• GMC Registration

Desirable

• Ability to support and motivate staff during periods of pressure.

About the employer

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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