Consultant in Nephrology and General Medicine

Job responsibilities

Please see job description attached.

Consultant in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine

This is a full-time post based at West Suffolk Hospital but with clinical links to Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The post is funded for 10 PAs. The post-holder will join 3 consultant colleagues (Dr Chong, Dr Petchey and Dr Yiu) in the Nephrology Department. Dialysis PAs will be from Addenbrookes Hospital – 1PA for two dialysis shifts (total of 26 patients)

Duties & responsibilities of the post

At West Suffolk Hospital the appointee will be expected to provide a clinical and administrative service in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine and will be required to undertake emergency on-call work in accordance with the existing on-call rota.

General Medicine

The appointee may be on-call 1:10 (subject to change) on weekdays and at weekends. The in-patient beds will be shared with, Dr W Petchey, Consultant Physician and Dr Yiu, Consultant Physician, on ward F8 and associated outlying medical wards (wards F5/6). The idea would be for rotation of the consultants on and off the ward.

The weekday working pattern starts at 08:30hrs until 17.00hrs Monday to Fridays. There are protected shifts for administration and SPA time (1.5PAs). All medical staff are now ward based and the appointee will conduct regular ward rounds including board rounds as agreed on the Job Plan. There are seven doctors in training based on the ward, including one SpR in General Medicine & Rheumatology, two IMT3, 1 CMT one FY2, one STGP trainee and two FY1s.

The appointee will be responsible for emergency care ward rounds when on call. The division of medicine operate a physician of the day service, with the on-call physician starting the ward round on the following morning. The on call physician’s clinics are reduced /cancelled on the following morning.

The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you.

Nephrology

The appointee will continue current nephrology services including weekly general nephrology clinics. The appointee is expected provide a high standard of care to renal patients and a consultant opinion on any patient referred to nephrology services.

In addition, the appointee is expected to develop and manage a new vasculitis service for the West Suffolk Hospital. This will include inpatient reviews and the development of a new outpatient clinic in conjunction with colleagues from the Department of Rheumatology and ENT. The appointee will be expected to work closely with colleagues from Addenbrookes Hospital (tertiary vasculitis and renal service) to ensure the smooth transfer of patients requiring biopsies, as well as repatriation of patients to the new WSH clinic. The appointee will have strong links with the Renal Team at the Addenbrooke’s site with honorary contracts from Cambridge University Hospital

In addition, the candidate will be expected to share supervision and support of the renal nurse specialist with the existing nephrologists.

Administrative

To produce, maintain and update departmental clinical management guidelines in line with evidence based best practice on a continuing basis.

The appointee will be encouraged to take an active role in any relevant Trust committees or sub-committees and any local or regional Nephrology meetings.

Timetable : Please see  JD attached

Management & Audit Training

Essential

• 1. Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics
• 2. Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities
• 3. Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery
• 4. Experience of audit management
• 5. Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 1. Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology
• 2. 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; or
• -have the following scores in the academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS)-Overall 7.5. Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7, Writing 7.
• If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence

Qualifications

Essential

• 1. 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
• 2. MRCP or equivalent
• 3. Full GMC registration

Desirable

• 1. MD or PhD
• 2. MRCP (Nephrology)

Experience

Essential

• 1. Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine
• 2. Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients
• 3. Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• 4. Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology
• 5. Experience in management of Nephrology in-patient and out-patient medicine
• 6. Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis

Desirable

• 1. Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent
• 2. Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar

Teaching, Training & Appraisal

Essential

• 1. Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs
• 2. Ability to teach clinical skills
• 3. To have training and experience in appraisal systems

Desirable

• 1. Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
• 2. Experience of teaching other professional groups
• 3. Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential

• Please give examples of the following:
• 1. Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
• 2. The ability to work as a team member
• 3. Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good
• 4. Enquiring, critical approach to work
• 5. Caring attitude to patients
• 6. Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• 7. Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance

Desirable

• 1. Has own/current driving licence

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

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UK Registration

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