Job summary
Required to fill 2 new posts
within the Leeds Renal Service at St Jamess University Hospital.
The renal service provides high
quality care for the population of Leeds and the surrounding area and is the
regional centre for renal transplantation. The main renal unit is within the St
Jamess University Hospital site; the renal service also has an outreach
service providing nephrological review and dialysis support to inpatients at
the Leeds General Infirmary site. The main renal unit has 42 inpatient beds on
two wards, which provide inpatient care for nephrology, dialysis, and
transplant patients. This post will also contribute to the General (Internal)
Medicine rota.
There is a 26-station outpatient
dialysis unit, a 5-station inpatient dialysis unit and an outpatient peritoneal
dialysis unit on the St Jamess Hospital site. The haemodialysis service also
has a 32-station haemodialysis unit at Seacroft hospital site in Leeds, and
satellite dialysis units in Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Pontefract, and
Beeston.
INTERVIEWS
WILL BE HELD: Tuesday 2 July 2024
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will
join an enthusiastic and supportive renal department with 17 consultant
colleagues, an associate specialist and junior doctor team. The posts will be based
at St Jamess University Hospital and will be predominantly clinical with
responsibility as a member of consultant team for providing inpatient and
outpatient care for nephrology, dialysis, and renal transplant patients.
The successful applicants should
hold accreditation in Membership of the Royal College of Physicians or
equivalent and should be on the Specialist Register or within six months of CCT
at the time of interview, if currently in a training programme within the UK.
In accordance with the consultant appointment regulations, all other categories
of doctors must be on the Specialist Register.
Applicants must be able to
demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects
of renal medicine, including the management and care of chronic haemodialysis
and renal transplant patients. Excellent communication and team working skills,
a strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and service
development are essential.
Consideration will be given to
applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share.
If shortlisted, you will be
required to give a 10-minute presentation on:
Kidney
disease is a growing public health issue: What strategies can be employed to
best tackle this?
About us
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is
one the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe, with access to leading
clinical expertise and medical technology. We care for people from all over the country as well as
the 780,000 residents of Leeds itself. Our 20,000 staff
ensures that every year we see and treat 1,500,000
people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000
in-patients, 260,000 A&E visits
and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from
7 hospitals on 5 sites all
linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for specialist
and integrated care. The
Trust is closely linked with the University of Leeds and undertakes both
undergraduate medical teaching and postgraduate studies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
Renal service in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is seeking to
appoint a consultant in renal medicine.
This will be a new post, and is full time based on a 10PA contract. The successful applicant will be employed by
LTHT, and will work alongside existing consultants and contribute to the
running of the renal service.
The renal service is based at St Jamess University Hospital, and provides
high quality care for the population of Leeds and the surrounding area and is
the regional center for renal transplantation.
Although the main renal unit is within the St Jamess
University Hospital site; the renal service also has an outreach service
providing nephrological review and dialysis support to inpatients at the Leeds
General Infirmary.
The main renal unit at St Jamess University Hospital has 42 inpatient
beds on two wards, which provide inpatient care for nephrology, dialysis and renal
transplant patients.
These posts do make a contribution to General (Internal) Medicine.
There is a 26 station outpatient dialysis unit, a 5 station inpatient
dialysis unit, and an outpatient peritoneal dialysis unit on the St Jamess
Hospital site. The haemodialysis service
also has a 32 station haemodialysis unit at Seacroft hospital site in Leeds,
and satellite dialysis units in Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Pontefract and
Beeston.
The renal unit provides support for
approximately 630 patients receiving haemodialysis, 50 receiving peritoneal
dialysis, 22 on home haemodialysis and 1200 renal transplant patients. In the past two years over 350 acute renal
transplants were performed.
The post holder will contribute to the care of nephrology
patients take on the responsibility for the supervision of a cohort of haemodialysis
patients and will undertake outpatient nephrology clinics and low clearance
clinics in Leeds. They will also
participate in the renal on call rota.
Within the job plan for this position are 1.19PA of DCC
to General Internal Medicine. This will be delivering inpatient care to the
general medical inpatients.
The new department of GIM, within the Speciality and
Integrated Medicine Clinical Service Unit, will be staffed by 15 dual
accredited physicians from Group 1 specialities, who will work a consultant of
the week model of care on a one in eight rota, providing a daily consultant
ward round. This is a brand new service, and will provide exciting
opportunities for successful candidates to be involved in service development
and quality improvement, as well as gain leadership and management experience.
The GIM PAs in colleagues job plans will be reviewed
after two years in post, with the likelihood (subject to individual wishes, and
confirmation with your line manager) of this activity being passed on as new
Group 1 speciality consultants are appointed to the organisation allowing
incumbents to return that time to their department and allow them to develop
further their parent speciality interest.
Applications
are encouraged from experienced consultants wishing to take up a new challenge
or newly accredited consultants who will be supported through our highly
regarded development programmes.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate:
- - high level of clinical experience and competence in renal medicine.
- - the ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within nephrology and dialysis and renal transplantation, and to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary renal centre.
- Evidence of continuous career progression consistent with personal circumstances.
Management & Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Understanding of current issues in the NHS.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance.
- * Well organised and skilled in good time management.
- * Effective interpersonal skills.
- * Team leadership skills
- * Demonstrate ability to relate to and work within a team.
Desirable
- Attendance at recognised management course.
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
- Evidence of having implemented change.
- Evidence of leadership/project management.
Research, Teaching & Audit
Essential
- Evidence of the ability to carry out medical research.
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology.
- Commitment to further research activity.
- Experience in training undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
- Ability to teach clinical/technical/practical skills.
- Experience of participation in regular clinical audit.
- Evidence of having revisited audit to assess for improvement.
Desirable
- Publications in the last three years.
- Previous experience of supervising research by junior staff.
- Evidence of leading or participation in collaborative research.
- Previous attendance on Appraisal Techniques and Small Group Teaching Workshops.
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
Other Requirements
Essential
- *Hold full GMC Registration with a license to practice.
- *Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via:
- -CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) CESR (or) international applicants should comply with the GMC specialty registration process: https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/brexit---information-for-doctors
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or other recognised equivalent medical qualification.
- MRCP or equivalent qualification.
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice. YOUR GMC NUMBER MUST BE STATED CLEARLY ON YOUR APPLICATION.
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Is up to date and fit to practise safely.
Desirable
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 .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF