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Locum Consultant in Diabetic Medicine
The closing date is 25 August 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated Diabetes team for one year.
The successful candidate will join the current six Consultant Diabetologists to develop our young adult and medical foot care services. They will join our experience type 1 diabetes multidisciplinary team and the inpatient diabetes team consisting of diabetes specialist nurses, consultants and podiatrists who provide a seven-day service across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Job Purpose:
To provide diabetes care within our established multidisciplinary teams the Trust's specialty and tertiary diabetes services
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospitalo Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)o Newcastle Dental Hospitalo Newcastle Fertility Centreo Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbriao Northern Genetics Serviceo Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job responsibilities
Provide specialist care for young adults with type 1 diabetes Provide specialist care for patients with diabetes foot disease in the medical foot clinic and during admission Provide specialist diabetes care within a type 1 diabetes clinic and within the inpatient diabetes multidisciplinary team Provide General medicine care in the General medicine ward during winter months Provide acute medical care on the Trusts medical admissions suite
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
* Primary Medical Qualification.
* Full GMC Registration.
* Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) accreditation certificates in Diabetes and Endocrinology
* A minimum of 12 months of NHS experience
* Higher Degree.
* Special skills training in the specialty.
Clinical Experience
* Evidence of experience in the specialty, type 1 diabetes, and diabetic foot care.
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
Management and Administration Experience
* Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
* An understanding of Clinical Governance.
* Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
* Evidence of leadership / project management.
* Evidence of having implemented change.
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.
Teaching
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
Research
* Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
* Research/critical review of literature.
* Publications in the last five years.
Audit
* Evidence of participation in audit.
* Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
* Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
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.
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