Consultant General Paediatrician with a Special interest in Diabetes

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of a Consultant General Paediatrician with a special interest in Diabetes and Endocrinology. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated colleague to join our established team of general paediatricians and our Children’s Diabetes Team. We will be looking for someone with experience in diabetes care (ideally SPIN – not essential, can be supported in post) and endocrine experience to join our team. There are 10 programmed activities available. The postholder will join 2 other consultants based on our Musgrove Park Hospital site as part of our multidisciplinary diabetic team and enabling us to continue to meet the Department of Health Best Practice guidelines for paediatric diabetes.

You will join our passionate paediatric senior medical colleagues to be part of our dynamic and forward-thinking paediatric team. Our service provides acute, community and mental health services across the county through Musgrove Park Hospital, Yeovil Hospital and a fully integrated network of children’s services. As one of the country’s most innovative integrated NHS organisations, we are redesigning care around children and families rather than organisational boundaries, creating exciting opportunities for consultants who want to influence how healthcare is delivered for years to come. Somerset offers the platform to develop a career that is professionally fulfilling whilst enjoying an exceptional quality of life.

Main duties of the job

Consultant post: General paediatric posts with opportunity for sub-specility interest in care for CYP in our diabetes and endocrinology services to include acute paediatric on call rotas that are RCPCH facing the future compliant. Full time 10PAs, or less than full time will be considered.

Job planning to meet your unique needs and service requirements.

Protected time and active support for developing your area of specialist interest including clinical subspecialist interests, education, leadership ad service development.

A real chance to shape the development of a leading-edge paediatric service for our local community alongside our multiprofessional dynamic leadership team.

We offer a bespoke induction program based on your needs, enhanced peer support during your first year, access to clinical restorative supervision and our trust-wide senior doctoring mentoring program

We value clinicians who put the care children and young people at the centre of everything they do, are curious, compassionate and collaborative, enjoy developing services as much as delivering them, want to help train tomorrow’s paediatricians and believe healthcare should continually improve.

In our team you’ll find a genuinely collaborative consultant body and multidisciplinary leadership team, modern integrated healthcare across acute and community services, and strong multidisciplinary working.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • *Medical Degree
  • *Full GMC with a Licence to Practice
  • *To have achieved a CCT OR
  • *Can provide evidence that he/she is within 6 months of the CCT date at the time of interview, and is expected to achieve CCT
  • *MRCPCH or equivalent
  • *On Specialist Register
  • *APLS

Desirable

  • *Diabetes SPIN qualification

Experience

Essential

  • *Expertise in General Paediatrics
  • *Expertise/training in managing child safeguarding
  • *Experience of working in Diabetes

Desirable

  • *Experience in endocrinology

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • *Understanding of clinical risk management.
  • *Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate.
  • *Clear, logical thinking showing an analytical and scientific approach.
  • *Ability to mentor staff both medical and nursing
  • *Evidence of a good standard of Literacy / English language skills
  • *Ability to prioritize clinical need
  • *Ability to organize oneself and own work
  • *Evidence of participation in audit
  • *Willingness to take a lead in developing/managing a clinical area
  • *Understanding of NHS, clinical governance & resource constraints.
  • *Evidence of teaching
  • *Well experienced in post graduate, particularly multidisciplinary, teaching and training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 August 2026

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