Locum Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology - Stevenage, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

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Stevenage, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are recruiting for a Locum Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is a Locum Consultant appointment covering a period of maternity leave, based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage but with clinical activity at other satellite sites.

The post holder will provide specialist clinics in diabetes and endocrinology both hospital and community settings and contribute to general medical ward and diabetes outreach care, and the acute medicine on call rota.

The post holder will carry out ward duties in GIM and be part of the diabetes outreach team (DOT), clinics in diabetes, endocrinology and have a key role in the provision of insulin pump services.

The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs).

The Consultant will work alongside the current consultant team of 11 in Diabetes and Endocrinology and provide diabetes and endocrine services at Lister Hospital.

In addition, the post-holder will participate in the acute medical emergency rotas, which will operate on a 1:12-14 basis for weekends and approximately 1:25 weekdays though this is currently under review.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Maintenance of highquality patient centered care
Shared responsibility for the daytoday management of the service and participation in strategic planning
Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
Active participation in continuing medical education