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King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a physician with a special interest in diabetes to support the diabetes services at King’s College Hospital (Denmark hill). This post is available from August-October 2023 for a duration of 12 month. It is suitable for:

• Post-CCT fellowship credentialing and looking to bolster their leadership and implementation and quality improvement skills set.
• Higher speciality trainees who wish to gain further subspecialty experience in diabetes and develop leadership skills as an out of programme experience.
• Senior clinical fellows with diabetes experience looking for further subspecialty experience
• International physicians looking for subspecialty experience in diabetes.

The appointed physician will join King’s College Hospital (Denmark Hill) diabetes service in a time of exciting developments and transformation. The main areas of work will include:

• Leading a transformation project within the diabetes department in collaboration with the clinical leads and service managers. This opportunity will provide skills in leadership, quality improvement methodology, communication and networking, organisation and management of implementation and change as well as opportunity to learn more about the NHS structure, commissioning and service provision.
• Subspecialty clinic provision within a highly renowned Type 1 diabetes service: including technology, psychology and management of complications.

This new post also offers exciting opportunities for an outstanding candidate to join one of the largest and most successful diabetes units in the UK. We have a multidisciplinary team of diabetologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and diabetes nurse specialists. We support general inpatient medicine (the acute GIM take, the 7 day working model and emergency pathways and provide a diabetes consultant out of hours advice service (1 in 9). This post does not include commitments to general medicine.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level.

The diabetes department is internationally renowned and provides extensive services to our local population and nationally. Areas of particular interest include:

Type 1 diabetes: We have a large tertiary type 1 diabetes clinic including one of the largest pump services in the UK and specialist management of problematic hypoglycaemia. We were pioneers in the DAFNE education programme and have an established islet transplant programme, having performed the UK’s first islet transplant in 2002.

Diabetic Foot Medicine. Professor Edmonds initiated the UK’s first dedicated multidisciplinary clinic in 1986 and this had grown into a service of global repute, with a long history of innovative practice. The current foot clinic allows comprehensive multidisciplinary management of diabetic foot problems with integrated vascular and orthopaedic support and an active research programme. Outcomes from this service in respect of healing and amputation prevention are the best in the UK.

Diabetes and Mental Health. We have established the first UK chair in diabetes and psychiatry held by Professor Khalida Ismail who provides local and tertiary level specialist services for the management of psychiatric aspects of diabetes. Together with Dr Carol Gayle she developed the award winning 3DFD model of community based psychosocial care for diabetes. She is currently piloting for NHS England a Type 1 Diabetes and Eating Disorders Service (T1DE).

Additional tertiary diabetes include pregnancy, peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, liver/renal, and post transplantation diabetes.