Clinical Fellow - Diabetes & Endocrinology

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow in Endocrine based at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Our Endocrine Team vision is to deliver the highest standards of care for our patients. Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is one of the largest Associate Teaching Hospitals, providing acute care for over 750,000 people from across 2 main sites. Consultant review of in-patients is provided daily including weekends.

Our Trust is in an excellent location, close to Central London and well situated in the South East. As well as all the advantages of being close to the city, you will discover that Essex has a beautiful countryside as well as excellent schools, transport links, amenities and residential areas.

The Trust has on-site nursery facilities. Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital are 4.5 miles apart with a free staff shuttle service. Both hospitals are within walking distance of mainline stations, where there is a reliable train service to London Liverpool Street station every 10 minutes (with a travelling time of 15-30 minutes).

• Clinical responsibility for the proper functioning of the Endocrine Unit, including inpatients, ward rounds, and out-patient clinics; to provide a safe, high quality and efficient patient care service.
• Provide telephone Endocrine Advice to GPs when requested or urgent circumstances.
• Assess and attend to inpatient Endocrine referrals in Queen’s Hospital.
• Liaise closely with various in-patient teams to ensure collaborative working arrangements are in place, which maximise benefits to patient care.
• Participate in under-graduate and post –graduate education programme. Including supervision of the junior medical staff, and undergraduate medical students.
• Work within the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective endocrine team working in the provision of medical care to the patients on the unit.
• Observe clinical guidelines/community protocols and best practice for the management of a wide range of acute medical presentations /admissions.
• Ensure robust risk management and governance arrangements are in place on the ward. You will be supported by our clinical governance lead.
• Participate in relevant audit and quality assurance processes, including reviews of manpower requirements.
• Keep up to date in your Mandatory training
• Assist in training and supervision of junior medical trainees carrying out appropriate medical procedures safely.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

This advert closes on Monday 27 Jul 2026