Job summary
The West Suffolk Nephrology team is currently looking for a Fixed Term Consultant Nephrologist to complement the current team, as we expand and look forward towards the new hospital. The applicant would be looking after patients on the Nephrology ward which is currently shared by Dr Petchey, Dr Karimi and a General Physician. The consultants are currently rotating on and off the ward. This provides opportunity for service development and allowing the applicant to have dedicated time to develop their sub-speciality interest.
We would hope that the applicant would be able to continue the practical skills of renal biopsy at inpatient level. The hospital is also looking towards developing acute dialysis as we move towards the new hospital which will require a separate on-call rota.
This post will be for 12 months
Main duties of the job
The applicant will be looking after inpatient (mixed with general internal medicine and Nephrology) and will be part of the General Medical on-call Rota.
Current clinics would be General Nephrology patients (Chronic Kidney Disease and glomerulonephritis). West Suffolk Hospital has very close ties with Cambridge University Hospital and all of the current Nephrologists have Honorary Consultant Contracts, as we provide consultant cover for the satellite dialysis unit, Vasculitis Clinic and Transplant Clinic.
As West Suffolk Hospital supports Cambridge University in their post graduate medical programme - we could be looking for applicants who would be interested in teaching.
To join 4 existing consultants in managing Renal Services at West Suffolk Hospital.
Provide day to day management of medical inpatients with renal disease
Provision of outpatient services in renal medicine at West Suffolk Hospital.
To take part in the physicians on call rota at West Suffolk Hospital and to manage medical inpatients on F8/associated outlying wards
Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of all in-patients and out-patient under the care of your team.
Teaching and training of intermediate, junior staff, nursing staff and medical students.
To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit
To fulfil obligations relating to continuing medical education and professional development, appraisal and revalidation
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details of the post.
Nephrology
Current nephrology services at the WSH include inpatient management of renal patients on ward F8 - encompassing patients with acute kidney injury, management of patients with CKD and review of dialysis and transplant patients. There is a strong emphasis on early detection and management of patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and overseeing referrals of such patients form a significant proportion of the workload. There is a joint nephrology-critical care ward round of ITU patients weekly.
Outpatient services include weekly general nephrology clinics, a transplant clinic, a low clearance clinic, monthly diabetes/renal clinic held jointly with Dr Marath (Acute Medicine/Diabetes) and a paediatric transition clinic held with Dr Christian on a 6 monthly basis. There is a monthly cardio-renal MDT, and Nephrology support for the Medical Obstetrics clinic is provided on an ad hoc basis. Tertiary level nephrology care is provided at CUH including acute transplantation and vasculitis.
Currently the Dialysis Unit is supervised jointly by Dr Chong and Dr Karimi. The Nephrology service is currently expanding with Dr Yiu leading the way in Virtual Ward for Acute Kidney Injury and Nephrotic Syndrome. We have clinical nurse specialist whose main focus is the transplant and predialysis service. There is an expectation that enhanced renal diagnostics and vascular access procedures will be repatriated from Addenbrookes Hospital to the Trust in the next 12 - 24 months.
Medicine
In-patients are triaged to their most appropriate medical speciality ward e.g. cardiac, acute respiratory, stroke unit etc. There is a well-structured multidisciplinary team meeting on each ward which will set goals to facilitate a reduction in length of stay.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details of the post.
Nephrology
Current nephrology services at the WSH include inpatient management of renal patients on ward F8 - encompassing patients with acute kidney injury, management of patients with CKD and review of dialysis and transplant patients. There is a strong emphasis on early detection and management of patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and overseeing referrals of such patients form a significant proportion of the workload. There is a joint nephrology-critical care ward round of ITU patients weekly.
Outpatient services include weekly general nephrology clinics, a transplant clinic, a low clearance clinic, monthly diabetes/renal clinic held jointly with Dr Marath (Acute Medicine/Diabetes) and a paediatric transition clinic held with Dr Christian on a 6 monthly basis. There is a monthly cardio-renal MDT, and Nephrology support for the Medical Obstetrics clinic is provided on an ad hoc basis. Tertiary level nephrology care is provided at CUH including acute transplantation and vasculitis.
Currently the Dialysis Unit is supervised jointly by Dr Chong and Dr Karimi. The Nephrology service is currently expanding with Dr Yiu leading the way in Virtual Ward for Acute Kidney Injury and Nephrotic Syndrome. We have clinical nurse specialist whose main focus is the transplant and predialysis service. There is an expectation that enhanced renal diagnostics and vascular access procedures will be repatriated from Addenbrookes Hospital to the Trust in the next 12 - 24 months.
Medicine
In-patients are triaged to their most appropriate medical speciality ward e.g. cardiac, acute respiratory, stroke unit etc. There is a well-structured multidisciplinary team meeting on each ward which will set goals to facilitate a reduction in length of stay.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Special Training
Essential
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
Desirable
- MD or PhD
- MRCP (Nephrology)
- Entry on the GMC specialist register in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) at the time of interview
Experince
Essential
- Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Experience in management of Nephrology in-patient and out-patient medicine
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis
Desirable
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent
- Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology
Management and Audit
Essential
- Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics
- Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Appraisal
Essential
- To have training and experience in appraisal systems
Personal Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
- The ability to work as a team member
- Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Has ability to travel to rural locations
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative
- Enthusiasm and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards
- To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidence-based best practice
- Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team
- To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: - -that applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; - PLAB2
Teaching and Training
Essential
- Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs
- Ability to teach clinical skills
Desirable
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Special Training
Essential
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
Desirable
- MD or PhD
- MRCP (Nephrology)
- Entry on the GMC specialist register in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) at the time of interview
Experince
Essential
- Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Experience in management of Nephrology in-patient and out-patient medicine
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis
Desirable
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent
- Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology
Management and Audit
Essential
- Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics
- Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Appraisal
Essential
- To have training and experience in appraisal systems
Personal Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
- The ability to work as a team member
- Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Has ability to travel to rural locations
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative
- Enthusiasm and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards
- To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidence-based best practice
- Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team
- To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: - -that applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; - PLAB2
Teaching and Training
Essential
- Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs
- Ability to teach clinical skills
Desirable
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
