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The post holder will be involved in providing Children and Young People’s Diabetes service which provides a local, regional and national service, participating in teaching activities on the UCH site and will be responsible for educational supervision of trainees; developing skills in the areas of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision, and participating in and delivering annual appraisals. They will Provide professional and clinical supervision of endocrine junior doctors, and assist in the management of their workloads.

They will liaise with the Education and Training lead for Paediatric Endocrinology colleagues at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) to create a comprehensive teaching programme that fulfils the RCPCH Training Curriculum for Paediatric Endocrinology over the two sites. 

The postholder will demonstrate the ability to meet UCLH’s core Trust values of kindness, safety, improvement and teamworking, having a can-do approach to working with colleagues and being able to see patients as people. They will exhibit leadership skills and have a commitment to clinical governance and ensuring top quality patient care.

The post is part of the London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (LCPED) a joint venture between GOSH and UCLH since 1994 providing seamless care for children with endocrine and diabetes conditions from infancy to adult life.  The Centre serves London and South East and receives national and international referrals.

The Children and Young People Division, together with Women’s Health, Queen Square division, and the Ear Nose Throat and Dental Hospital form the Specialist Hospitals Clinical Board.

The Medical Director of the Board is Dr Tim Hodgson. The Divisional Clinical Director for the Paediatric and Adolescent division is Dr Sara Stoneham. The Divisional Manager is Toral Pandya and the Matron for General Paediatrics and Adolescents is Joanna Turner.

The Children and Young People’s Division consists of several departments, covering integration with primary care, secondary care, tertiary and national referral services.  These include General Paediatrics (lead Dr Yasmin Baki), Adolescent medicine and specialties (lead Dr Terry Segal) Children and Young People’s Cancer Service (CYPCS, lead for teenagers and young adults Dr Vicky Grandage, lead for paediatrics Dr Maria Michelagnoli), Child and Adolescent Mental Health (lead Dr Mike Groszmann) Adolescent Rehabilitative Medicine (TRACCS, lead Anna Gregorowski), Paediatric Urology (Lead Dr Navroop Johal), UCLH Surgery (Lead Mr Khaled Dawas) and GOSH surgical link Mr Stavros Loukogeorgakis. The Lighthouse lead for health is Dr Najette Ayadi-O’Donnell.

Around 19,000 children and young people each year attend the emergency department, which has recently moved to new facilities.  Acute admissions of children and teenagers are to age-specific wards T11 South and T12 South in the hospital tower. Our adolescent unit is the largest in Europe and one of which we are proud. TRACCS service looks after young people with complex conditions such as functional symptoms, post COVID syndrome and ME/CFS with an integral MDT. Total admissions across the Trust for children and teenagers are over 6,000/year and the wards take all children and teenagers admitted to the Trust including general paediatrics, surgery, urology, orthopaedics, ENT, dentistry and maxillo-facial surgery. Babies from the neonatal unit with chronic lung disease and drug withdrawal are also sometimes transferred to the paediatric ward.  All children and teenagers are under the care of a general or specialist paediatrician, even when other specialty teams share care.

TRACCS service looks after young people with complex conditions such as functional symptoms, post COVID syndrome and ME/CFS with an integral MDT.

The adolescent/TRACCS consultants have complex clinics, medical or with MDT, day cases, admissions to T12.

There is a full MDT every week and other bespoke meetings for service development and patient care. Monthly education slot for the team. We support junior trainees and medical students.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.  

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:  

·         University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)  

·         National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery  

·         Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital  

·         Eastman Dental Hospital  

·         Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine  

·         University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre  

·         The Hospital for Tropical Diseases  

·         University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street  

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.  

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England. 

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040