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Locum Consultant in Diabetes
The closing date is 20 August 2025
OCDEM provides facilities and platforms for integrated clinical care (outpatient, inpatient, podiatry, dietetics, programmed investigation unit), research and teaching. Notably, the building houses the diabetes component of the NIHR funded Biomedical Research Centre (including a 12-bedded CRU), a National Commissioning Group-funded islet isolation unit (including research isolations, providing ready access to human islets on-site), as well as high quality laboratory space and associated research infrastructure.
Junior medical support and training. The joint NHS Diabetes and Endocrinology service participate in the Oxford Training Rotation, which consists of 14 specialist training posts shared between 7 hospitals (The Churchill and John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, the Horton Hospital, Banbury, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes General Hospital, The Royal Berks Hospital, Reading and Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals. At any one time, OCDEM has 6 registrars who each spend between 18 and 24 months of the rotation based in the department. Trainees on the rotation may take time out to complete a research degree, normally at OCDEM. Cover for the Diabetic Foot Clinic and the Bagot & Drake Metabolic Unit is provided by one medical ST1 trainee.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder's duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital but does include peripheral clinics, such as one at Witney Community Hospital; however it is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust's locations and peripheral clinics.
Clinical
The post-holder's duties are envisaged as being primarily in diabetes. It is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust's locations or peripheral clinics.
Diabetes
This post will involve diabetes clinics and the diabetes email advice line, including a specialist diabetic foot clinic.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Job responsibilities
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES:
The post-holders duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital but does include peripheral clinics, such as one at Witney Community Hospital; however it is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trusts locations and peripheral clinics.
Clinical
The post-holders duties are envisaged as being primarily in diabetes. It is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trusts locations or peripheral clinics.
Diabetes
This post will involve diabetes clinics and the diabetes email advice line, including a specialist diabetic foot clinic.
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holders contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management and quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date within their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study
leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* MB BS or equivalent / MRCP or equivalent
* Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
* CCT registration on GMC Specialist Register in Diabetes AND General Internal Medicine or within 6 months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
* Applicants that are UK trained, must be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
* Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
* Training in Quality Improvement
Experience
* General training in medicine to specialist level or equivalent. Experience in acute general medicine and diabetes.
* Broad experience of acute general medicine and specialist inpatient and outpatient diabetes care in a hospital setting. Including diabetic foot disease
* Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
* Evidence of completed and published quality improvement.
Skills and Knowledg
* Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of Consultant in Diabetes and General Internal Medicine in a large teaching hospital.
* Sufficient organisational skills to function as a consultant.
* Experience of working with or training in clinical NHS hospital management.
* Organisational skills to develop and run a clinical improvement project.
* Sufficient practical skills to function as a consultant
* Evidence of good interpersonal skills
* Good spoken and written English. Evidence of good communication skills
* Experience of teaching both undergraduates and trainees.
* Experience of routine clinical audit.
* Evidence of quality improvement projects.
* Evidence of the ability to interpret relevant research.
* Ability to support departmental research.
* Evidence of leadership in research, teaching, professional bodies or service development.
* Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for its modernisation.
* Evidence of organisational skills in service development, quality improvement, research, teaching or professional bodies.
* Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs. Prior experience with clinical information systems.
* Proven ability to communicate in written form (publications, reports etc)
* Higher teaching qualification. Teaching course development and management.
* Leadership of practice-changing audit. Audit publications
* Evidence of published research. Evidence of ongoing research interest.
Other Requirements
* Full GMC Registration
* Full driving licence
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.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£109,725 to £145,478 a yearPer Annum Pro Rata
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