Job summary
This is a full-time Consultant appointment within the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. The successful candidate must hold or be within 6 months of being eligible for a CCT in Endocrinology and Diabetes as well as General Internal Medicine.
The Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism is managed within the Specialist Medicine Care Group and located within a dedicated outpatient unit at the Allam Diabetes Centre (opened in 2021) at the Hull Royal Infirmary site.
This centre is also the base for our active academic department under the direction of Professor T Sathyapalan, Head of Academic Endocrinology at HYMS and Trust Director Research and Development. On-site facilities in the Allam Diabetes Centre include clinical rooms, near-patient testing, 3 DXA scanners, retinal screening, multidisciplinary foot team, patient education, clinical research unit and a research laboratory.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will take an equal share with colleagues in ward attending responsibilities for the inpatient bed base. This is currently structured on a 2 week ward attending basis on rotation throughout the year amounting to an average of just over 8 weeks per annum ward duties. The inpatient case load consists of specialty diabetes and endocrinology cases alongside general medicine inpatients.
There is an on-call rota for diabetes and endocrinology, currently 1:7.5. It is anticipated that with the appointment of a senior lecturer in due course, in addition to this post the specialty on-call would become 1:9. This provides specialty advice 24/7, weekend base-ward consultant rounds Saturday and Sunday with specialty in-reach to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) and H36 (specialty ward holding area near AMU), supported by junior medical staff. The post-holder may be required to work in the Acute Medical Unit on a sessional basis but this would be no more than 2 sessions per week.
About us
Hull University Teaching Hospitals is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites, are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLaG.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months) in Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Medicine or equivalent EU/EEA qualification.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- MRCP(UK) or equivalent qualification
- Valid ALS certificate
Desirable
- Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
- Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to clinical diabetes
- Comprehensive technical competence in diabetes and endocrinology
- Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on all diabetes and endocrine problems
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients within general medicine practice
- Ability to be the responsible physician for the acute medical take
Desirable
- Specialist centre experience in type 1 diabetes, insulin pump and new technologies, obesity, diabetic foot disease
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Ability to manage and lead a service and junior staff.
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the diabetes service.
- Ability to implement change
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload e.g. outpatient priorities
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Desirable
- Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
- Evidence of management/ leadership training e.g. Kings Fund course
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience and commitment to teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
- Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- Publications within the field of diabetes in peer-reviewed journals
Desirable
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
- Specialist interest within diabetes that could complement existing research portfolios within the Academic Department
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Passion for diabetes and developing the service
- Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Commitment to CPD and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months) in Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Medicine or equivalent EU/EEA qualification.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- MRCP(UK) or equivalent qualification
- Valid ALS certificate
Desirable
- Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
- Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to clinical diabetes
- Comprehensive technical competence in diabetes and endocrinology
- Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on all diabetes and endocrine problems
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients within general medicine practice
- Ability to be the responsible physician for the acute medical take
Desirable
- Specialist centre experience in type 1 diabetes, insulin pump and new technologies, obesity, diabetic foot disease
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Ability to manage and lead a service and junior staff.
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the diabetes service.
- Ability to implement change
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload e.g. outpatient priorities
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Desirable
- Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
- Evidence of management/ leadership training e.g. Kings Fund course
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience and commitment to teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
- Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- Publications within the field of diabetes in peer-reviewed journals
Desirable
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
- Specialist interest within diabetes that could complement existing research portfolios within the Academic Department
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Passion for diabetes and developing the service
- Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Commitment to CPD and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
