Locum Consultant in Diabetes and General Internal Medicine

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are seeking a dynamic locum colleague to join our Diabetes and Endocrinology team at University Hospital Lewisham for 6 months. We are a team of 5 full time consultants who work in diabetes and endocrinology, in addition to our GIM/acute medicine commitment.

We are keen on developing our colleague to grow and develop in a sub-speciality of their choice.

We also run an insulin pump and diabetes technology clinics and MDT, transition diabetes clinics, diabetes foot service, antenatal diabetes service, community diabetes services and general endocrine clinics.

It is evident from the above, that the candidate is able to do speciality of their choice at the same time, contributing to service development within a 10 PA job plan. The on-call commitment is 1 in 13. See attached job description for more details.

Main duties of the job

The prime responsibility is to contribute to the provision and development of Diabetes, Endocrine and General Medicine services undertaken by the Trust

The key duties of the job will include:

• Participation in the acute general medical take, including weekends
• Consultant cover on a general medical ward
• Contribute to rapid reviews of in-patients with Diabetes
• Provide post-graduate, undergraduate and AHP teaching and supervision
• Provide services for type 1 diabetes, including pump and CGM, play a key role in diabetes technology MDT