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Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology/GIM | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2025 |
| Location: | Wythenshawe, M23 9LT |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6947842/349-WTWA-6947842 |
Summary
There is an exciting opportunity for a full time Consultant in Diabetes/Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine to join the existing team working across WTWA Hospitals.
The successful candidate with join 7 Consultant Diabetes/Endocrinologists who work across WTWA. We are well supported by middle grade doctors including specialists trainees, specialty doctors. The diabetes/endocrinology aspect of this post will be primarily based at Wythenshawe, Withington and Trafford with the options of clinics at Altrincham to the successful candidates preferences and the needs of the service. The Diabetes and Endocrinology service provides the full spectrum and secondary and tertiary services.
We are keen to attract candidates interested in innovative ways to move the specialist services forward and also keen to recruit a colleagues who will contribute to the wider hospital including but not limited to supporting management and training (both undergraduate and postgraduate) activities. There are regular multidisciplinary teams meetings.
This appointment will be made in accordance with the 2023 Consultant Contract Terms and Conditions. The Job Descriptions indicates the main duties of the post which maybe reviewed in light of experience and developments within the service. Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the post holder.
This is a full time 10 PA post. Offers of less than full time work or job shares would also be considered.
The multidisciplinary team includes Specialist nurses, psychologists and specialist podiatry.
Apart from the outpatient activity, the successful candidate would spend over a third of their weekday job plan delivering consultant led care on a newly developed Medical Specialties Ward. This is a 23 bedded ward caring for patients with a variety of presenting conditions. They would manage the patients with 2 other consultants with specialist interests in other disciplines i.e. renal. It would be expected they provide teaching and supervision to the juniors on the ward and lead on service delivery, improvement and relevant QIP.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Monday 17 Mar 2025
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