Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology to join our team at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

The Team consists of 10 consultants, 3 specialist trainees, junior doctors, specialist nurses and allied health professionals who are responsible for providing tertiary level care to patients with pituitary, thyroid, adrenal and other hormone-related diseases. The department provides a large, highly progressive diabetes technology service and is the only specialist bariatric centre in the region.

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest referral centres in the United Kingdom for neurosciences/pituitary surgery and is a regional service for specialist endocrine and bariatric surgery.

Main duties of the job

Our Diabetes and Endocrinology consultants are responsible for providing specialist care in an inpatient setting as well as specialty outpatient clinics in acute and community locations. The General Medicine responsibility of this post is to provide ward-based care for one of the general medical wards and other patients admitted under the team, in outlier wards. You will also be part of the on-call rota currently 1 in 8.

The ideal candidate will be innovative, forward thinking and committed to developing an integrated service to support the residents of Salford. The Department is also committed to quality improvement projects which can form the basis of publications and presentations at national conferences. In addition to furthering professional development with respect to clinical aspects of Diabetes and Endocrine medicine, there will also be opportunities to furthering skills as a medical educator in relation to delivering supervision and support for all specialty medicine trainees.

There are plenty of opportunities to specialise within the Diabetes and Endocrine service with the following specialist services provided:

• Young people's clinics
• Dedicated Diabetes Foot Services, with podiatric and vascular nurse input
• Provision of DAFNE and DESMOND
• Provision of insulin pump services with dedicated pump clinics
• Complex diabetes clinics both in hospital & community
• Medical weight management and bariatric clinics
• Multi-disciplinary clinics with other specialities

About us

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk