Specialty Doctor - Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine

www.healthjobsuk.com - jobboard; Basildon; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Specialty Doctor role in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and General Internal Medicine. Offering full-time engagement with a focus on patient care and multi-disciplinary collaboration, this position is essential for high-quality service delivery within the trust. The ideal candidate should possess appropriate GMC registration and relevant experience in the NHS.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable competency in managing conditions related to older people.
• 4 years post FY2 experience, with 2 years in the specialty.
• NHS experience.

Responsibilities

• Provision for inpatient care on the endocrinology ward.
• Supervisory responsibility for patients on the ward and daily ward rounds.
• Participation in departmental clinical governance and audit meetings.

Skills

Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team

Patient-oriented care

Education

GMC Registered

Job description

Main area Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine Grade Specialty Doctor Contract Fixed term: 2 years (From Start Date) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (+ inclusion on specialty doctor/senior clinical fellow oncall rota - 1:12 nights weekdays and 1:12 weekends) Job ref 390-DoM-BA-1200

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Basildon Town Basildon Salary £59,175 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2025 23:59

Specialty Doctor - Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine

Specialty Doctor

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

Applications are invited for a new post for a Specialty Doctor Physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine.

The Endocrinology Team currently consists of three Consultants (Lead Dr Rehman Khan), and one Acute Physician with interest in Endocrinology. The junior clinical team comprises two Specialist Registrars, two Trust grade doctors, one CMT trainee and two FY1 trainees. There is a Diabetes Specialist Nurse team consisting of four FTE and support staff.

The team runs a full range of diabetic clinics including weekly diabetic and endocrine antenatal clinics, 4 diabetes foot clinics per week, 3 Endocrine weekly clinics, a transition diabetes clinic (jointly with paediatrics), a monthly thyroid cancer clinic, insulin pump clinics (lead Dr Choo-Kang). Additionally, three weekly diabetic clinic are run with community diabetes service for general diabetes care. The community diabetes service is supported by regular Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings (3 consultants, 6 DSNs and specialist diabetes dietician) to discuss complex and challenging cases and to agree consensus management plans.

A twice monthly endocrine MDT meeting is held (endocrinologists, surgeons, pathologist and radiologists) to discuss appropriate cases.

Main duties of the job

There is a designated Diabetes and Endocrinology ward where patients with complications such as Diabetic foot disease, Cushing’s disease, diabetic emergencies and other complications are admitted.

You will partake in acute unselected medical takes and clerk acutely ill patients and support junior doctors to manage such emergency admission patients

You will participate in departmental and Trust clinical governance and audit meetings, participate in CPD activity, engage in the appraisal process and maintain professionalism at all times.

You will actively participate in various Trust wide teaching and training events to junior doctors, medical students and allied health professionals.

Youwill participate in other duties as deemed necessary and directed by designated consultant for the care of the patient.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Basildon, Broomfield (Chelmsford) and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities. Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

We will deliver safe and high-quality services and be an employer of choice for our workforce.

We are ‘one team, working together’.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties.

• You will provision for in patient care on the endocrinology ward working in the firm structure for a named consultant
• You will have day-to-day supervisory responsibility for patients on the ward, participate in daily ward rounds to review patients, maintain progress notes, be a safe prescriber, request and act on the results of appropriate and relevant investigations, perform necessary bedside procedures to avoid delays to patient care.
• You will work closely with the medical and nursing team on all wards.
• You will provide support and supervision to the junior doctors FY, IMT & other doctors when attending to inpatients and manage patients in accordance with the Trust values while adhering to the local and national protocols and guidelines
• You will be required to attend resuscitation training and complete ALS and participate as member of the cardiac arrest team.

Person specification

Technical Skills

• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Puts patients first by being helpful, caring and respectful

Experience

• Demonstrable competency to manage conditions related to older people
• 4 years post FY2, 2 yrs in specialty
• NHS experience

Qualifications

• GMC Registered

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Melissa Firrell Job title Deputy General Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07719664386 Additional information

For all service and clinical Queries - Clinical lead Dr Rehman Khan [e-mail]