Consultant Physician in Diabetes

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital has a well-established diabetes and endocrinology service, operating from a dedicated Diabetes Centre. This is an additional post to augment a young and dynamic diabetes and endocrinology team. The post will include an GIM on call commitment (likely to be based as "hot week in EAU", subject to redesign), joining the existing 24 physicians on the on call rota. The post has 10PAs (up to 12 PAs subject to negotiation).The successful applicant will join a well established diabetes team comprising 7 consultants, 5 inpatient diabetes specialist nurses and a clinic nurse. There is input from a specialist diabetes dietitian and there has been recent agreement for some psychologist funding. Members of the team are DAFNE trained. There is a specialist diabetes podiatry team (led by a consultant podiatrists) and the team runs weekly Foot clinics with podiatry as well as monthly MDT foot clinics with vascular surgeons and orthopaedic surgeons with a specialist interest in diabetic foot disease. The hospital based diabetes team has close links with the community multidisciplinary diabetes team and the responsibility for leading this service will lie jointly between the diabetologists at Kettering and Northampton.Specialist clinics are held for new patient and follow up diabetes, insulin pump, renal, foot and young adult in addition to transition clinics.

Main duties of the job

Suggested timetable: Each post will have approximately the same numberof clinics and ward rounds as listed below, but the activities may beallocated to different days of the week. The shape of the week variesdepending duties such as ward cover or on-call. Three timetables for thesedifferent scenarios are therefore provided with an overall summary ofduties per year and for an average week:

Consultants in diabetes and endocrinology contribute to the acute take on a 1:13 basis. During theweek this means a 'long day' of take admissions from 8:30 to handover at 9pm (completed by9:30pm). Every second 'long day' includes overnight availability (1 in 26). At weekends there is alsoward cover duty for the admission wards shared between medical consultants. This involves a 4hour admission unit ward round (8:30am to 12.30). Overall there are 7 to 8 weekend days a year of'full' on-call work (long days) and the same number of 'short' (4-hour ward round) days. The teamis in the process of amalgamating these into 7 weekends (3-4 'long' plus 3-4 'short') a year. Theadditional hours worked due to on-call duties (beyond the 40 hour weekly commitment of a 10 PArole) can either be claimed as extra income (ceiling for the trust is 12 PAs) or taken as time in lieu.

About us

The HospitalNorthampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on anexciting journey. All our divisions are focused on doing things better and with moreefficiency as we update, modernise and advance. We have also entered into a Group Modelwith neighboring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.Being a large DGH with a proud history, we are big enough to get interesting cases, butsmall enough to care, coach and develop. With over 200 consultants, a similar number oftrainees and approximately 60 (with existing plans to expand to 80+) medicalundergraduates throughout the year, NGH provides comprehensive care and extensivetraining opportunities.With this in mind, we have built a state of the art emergency assessment unit (Nye Bevanbuilding) and are developing new ways of working to streamline in-patient care andoptimise working with our partners.We are a clinically-led organisation with most of senior management coming from nursingand medical roles. This offers great opportunities to get involved with all levels of care fromdepartmental to the wider picture of the hospital as a whole.NGH has an excellent social centre with a large library, gym with swimming pool and theCripps Education Centre where lunch and snacks are available in one of our restaurants awayfrom the main hospital. Frequent educational sessions run in the Centre for all levels of staffand it serves as an oasis from the clinical areas.

Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Northampton General Hospital

Cliftonville

Northampton

NN1 5BD

Employer's website

https://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Northampton General Hospital

Cliftonville

Northampton

NN1 5BD

Employer's website

https://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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