The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS foundation Trust are seeking to appoint a full-time substantive consultant to the team based at the Ipswich site of the Trust. This is a new post to join the existing 5 consultants. This will facilitate the expansion of specialist work and seven day inpatient speciality working.
The Endocrinology and Diabetes team at Ipswich is nationally renowned for its innovative work in a number of areas including exceptional research activity for a district general hospital. We are a busy but friendly and collaborative department with excellent staff retention. There are full multidisciplinary teams for both endocrinology and diabetes and 2 specialist registrars. Clinics are undertaken in a purpose built Diabetes and Endocrine centre which has facilities for staff and patient education. There is a developed integrated diabetes service in the community with strong links to the specialist service which has been nationally rated as outstanding and the diabetes centre is developing its services for type 1 patients by the use of emerging technologies. We also have a dedicated diabetic foot clinic and links to vascular surgery. For endocrinology we have very strong links with the regional tertiary centres with fortnightly teleconferences and an endocrine specialist nurse who works with an efficient medical day unit for endocrine investigations. The post will involve covering inpatient specialist and general internal medical patients on a rotating basis including weekend on call for GIM approximately one weekend in 16. The post will involve speciality weekend working for 4 hours each weekend day on a shared basis with the other consultants.
The successful candidate will be joining the department at a particularly exciting time as Ipswich Hospital has recently joined with Colchester General Hospital to form the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which is currently the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia covering a rapidly expanding population of over 800,000 residents. This presents great opportunities to further develop specialist services and the successful candidate will be able to contribute to this process and there is flexibility in the job plan as we would seek to meet their specialist interests. The department is heavily involved in the education of medical students from the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia.
Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk with rapid rail and road links to London and easy access to Stansted airport, yet close to the coast and beautiful countryside. There are excellent public and independent schools.