Locum Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Job Category: Health care professional
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: England
Company Name: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Company Overview

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 759,000 people. We also provide some specialist services for a wider population, including renal services in Medway and Maidstone and a cardiac service for all of Kent based at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. Our vision is ‘great healthcare from great people’​. Everything we do is guided by our vision and values. We have a national and international reputation for delivering high quality specialist care, particularly in cancer, kidney disease, stroke and vascular services. We value and pursue excellence in research and innovation. Our Trust has been ranked first in Kent for clinical research studies, as well as consistently recruiting high numbers of patients into research trials. As a teaching Trust we play a vital role in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, working closely with local universities and Kings College University in London.

About the job

Our local Clinical Biochemistry department provides a comprehensive array endocrine tests in addition to supporting regular dynamic endocrine testing. All imaging modalities including PET-CT scanning are available

to support endocrine work up.

We have the support of the nuclear medicine department for the treatment of benign and malignant thyroid disease. The ENT department offers a thyroid and parathyroid surgery service and a regular thyroid

multidisciplinary meeting occurs on the Canterbury site.

We have very good links with the pituitary and adrenal MDTs based at Kings College Hospital, London for pituitary, adrenal and other specialised endocrine referrals.

All consultants joining our Diabetes and Endocrinology department will have the opportunity develop professionally, expand their skill set as well as contribute to the service.

We are passionate about offering high quality care to our patients and manage patients both general diabetes and endocrine problems.

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