Locum Consultant Nephrology

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The BHRUT renal service is provided as part of the North East London and Essex Renal Network in a hub and spoke model which allows patients with acute and chronic kidney disease to be managed locally.

Renal services based in BHRUT include in-patient management of acute and chronic renal conditions, inpatient referrals and general nephrology out-patients.

Patients with complex kidney diseases are managed up to dialysis and transplantation with the support of the specialist tertiary centre at Barts Health NHS Trust, based in Royal London Hospital. Haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and transplantation are provided by the specialist renal unit in Royal London Hospital and in two satellite units based in Queen’s and King George.

Patients with acute kidney Injury requiring renal replacement therapy are largely managed in ITU and stepped-down to Royal London Hospital only if they need on-going dialysis or therapeutic plasma exchange. Acute kidney injury / end stage renal failure services have been recently bolstered with the installation of four haemodialysis stations within critical care to provide intermittent haemodialysis; a further two stations are being installed on the renal ward to manage our large cohort of inpatient haemodialysis patients with the support of the satellite unit.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a member of the Specialist Medicine Directorate in BHRUT and will be part of the consultant team that will deliver nephrology services across the North East London and Essex Renal Network, according to local and national priorities as determined by appropriate national guidelines.

The post holder is expected to possess membership of the Royal College of Physicians or to have equivalent qualifications, to be on the GMC specialist register at the time of taking up the post and have obtained the MRCP Renal certification.

The post-holder is expected to share in-patient commitments with the existing full-time nephrologist to provide an acute in-patient referral service and ward-based care 52 weeks a year. The part-time consultants complement the service by providing in-patient referrals and out-patient clinics across both trust sites.

The post holder will have secretarial support and an adequately equipped office, including IT facilities.

The post-holder is actively encouraged to participate in service-development and clinical-governance activities, in addition to clinical and educational supervision of junior trainees. The post also provides for developing links with diabetes, rheumatology, urology and primary-care services. The post holder will be expected to attend appropriate meetings depending on sub-specialist interests in order to further the development of the services across the network.

About Us

We take PRIDE in everything we do, our five core values reflect that PRIDE. These values were developed together with our staff. We work hard to provide outstanding care to our community, delivered with PRIDE.

Our PRIDE values of Passion; Responsibility; Innovation; Drive and Empowerment inspire us and keep our patients at the heart of everything we do.

Our vision and values have been in place for seven years. Within our recovery plan we are keen to refresh our approach to making sure they more fully reflect the values of partners across North East London so that the way we work is ever more conscious of how our work contributes to local lives and is reliant on local partners.

All new staff appointed to posts at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the culture and working environment of the Trust.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Shortlisting

Essential

• Full registration with the General Medical Council
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register
• CCT or CESR
  

Desirable

• An appropriate higher medical degree, e.g. an MD, PhD or equivalent
• To demonstrate a specialist interest
• To have experience of developing new services
  

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