Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology to join a multidisciplinary team. The role involves inpatient and outpatient care, teaching, and participation in service innovation. Candidates should have a CCT in Endocrinology and General Medicine or be nearing completion. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Generous study leave budget

Access to a Postgraduate Education Centre

On-site medical library with online journal access

Qualifications

• CCT in Endocrinology and General Medicine or within 6 months of achieving.
• Experience in teaching medical students and trainees.
• Delivery of outpatient diabetes and endocrinology care.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient care on Ward 5, managing urgent GP calls.
• Participate in the General Medical on-call rota.
• Deliver outpatient clinics in Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Skills

Good written and oral communication skills

Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team

Innovative thinking

Education

MRCP (UK)

CCT in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine

MD/PhD

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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Job Overview

Are you passionate about making a difference in Diabetes and Endocrinology? We are seeking an enthusiastic Consultant to join our growing multidisciplinary team across Wexham Park and King Edward Hospitals. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of local services while balancing work in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and General Medicine.

Job Overview

Are you passionate about making a difference in Diabetes and Endocrinology? We are seeking an enthusiastic Consultant to join our growing multidisciplinary team across Wexham Park and King Edward Hospitals. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of local services while balancing work in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and General Medicine.

You'll join a supportive team of 4 full-time and 2 part-time consultants delivering high-quality care across inpatient and outpatient settings, including Diabetic Foot and Joint Antenatal services. Outpatient clinics are held across Wexham Park, King Edward, Heatherwood, and St Marks Hospitals. Opportunities exist to lead on subspecialty interests and contribute to service innovation.

The role includes participation in the General Medical on-call rota and offers a minimum of 1.5 SPA sessions. You’ll be involved in teaching and training, with access to students from Oxford, Southampton, Imperial, and Brunel Medical Schools.

We welcome applicants committed to patient-centred care, collaborative working, and service improvement. Flexible and part-time working options are available. If you are a dedicated, innovative clinician ready to shape the future of our Diabetes and Endocrine services, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide inpatient care on Ward 5, a 36-bed general medical ward with additional responsibility for outlying patients. They will undertake ward cover in 2-week blocks every 10 weeks, during which they will provide full-time inpatient care with no outpatient commitments. During these periods, the consultant will supervise registrars, support specialty referrals, manage urgent GP calls, and work closely with the inpatient Diabetes Specialist Nurses and Diabetic Foot Team.

The post includes 4–5 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) sessions per week focused on outpatient clinics in Diabetes and Endocrinology, including General Endocrinology, Type 1 and Complex Type 2 Diabetes, Transition, Joint Antenatal, and Diabetic Foot MDT clinics. Diabetes clinic slots are 30 minutes; Endocrine clinic slots vary depending on format (face-to-face or telephone). One weekly session is allocated for administrative duties. The appointee will support cross-cover of MDT clinics with the consultant team.

A minimum of 1.5 SPA sessions per week is provided to support CPD, clinical governance, teaching, and service development. The role benefits from access to a generous study leave budget, a Postgraduate Education Centre, and an on-site medical library with online journal access.

The appointee will participate in the general medical on-call rota, currently 1:7 weekends and 1:20 weekdays, subject to service needs.

Working for our organisation

The successful applicant will be involved in providing general medical services to patients on the endocrine and general medical ward and participating in the acute general medical on-call rota.

Applicants should have a CCT in Endocrinology and General Medicine, or be within 6-months of achieving this at the time of application.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For an informal discussion of the post or visit, please contact Dr Sri Akavarapu (Consultant Endocrinologist) email [e-mail] tel [phone]

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MRCP (UK)
• CCT in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine (or within 6 months of achieving at the time of application)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• MD/PhD
• Other post-graduate degree
  
  

Specific competencies for role

Essential criteria

• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organise and develop service provision
• Computer literate – confident in using MS Office, Email and Internet
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Leadership of professional bodies or committees
• Evidence of written communication in publications
  
  

Professional / specialist experience

Essential criteria

• Delivery of outpatient diabetes and endocrinology care
• Participation in unselected medical take and delivery of care to acute medical inpatients
• Ability to make decisions at the level of a consultant and to lead a team of trainees
• Experience of teaching medical students and trainees
  
  

Desirable criteria

• At least 1-year of training in a specialist unit
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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