Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology

You will join a well-established consultant team, working collaboratively to further enhance and develop Diabetes and Endocrinology services across the Trust. You'll share responsibility for the day-to-day clinical leadership and operational delivery of the service, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained across General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology.

A key focus of the role will be contributing to the ongoing development and redesign of the Type 1 Diabetes service, with a particular emphasis on improving provision for young adults and antenatal diabetes, building on existing expertise in diabetes technology. You'll also have the opportunity to work closely with paediatric colleagues to strengthen and further develop the transition pathway into adult services. Additionally, the role includes medical leadership of the inpatient diabetes team. You will build on significant recent progress, with a focus on streamlining surgical pathways and implementing robust systems to ensure timely and effective follow-up of patients following discharge.

Whilst the Trust is particularly seeking expertise in inpatient and Type 1 diabetes care, the job plan will be flexible and can be tailored to reflect the successful candidate's experience and interests across the wider Diabetes and Endocrinology specialty.You'll contribute to inpatient care on the dedicated diabetes base ward and will participate in the acute medical take as part of the consultant rota.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to develop skills and provide teaching for the doctors in training in their department. They will be expected to share with their consultant colleagues the roles of clinical supervisor / educational supervisor. This will involve the provision of supportive formal appraisals to doctors in training at regular intervals, induction at the beginning of their contracts and career advice as appropriate. Advice on the roles can be obtained from the Clinical Tutor.

We have a weekly MDT alternating between diabetes and endocrinology to discuss cases and work on service development.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities

Person Specification GMC qualification or equivalent

• Consultant
• CCT/CESR(cp)
• Please state Speciality
• Research relevant to post
• Consultant
• Date of Last appraisal
• Date of last revalidation

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.

£113,565 to £150,569 a yearper annum pro rata if part time