Consultant in Renal Medicine

We wish to appoint a full-time Consultant Nephrologist with a focus on home dialysis therapies, to join an enthusiastic and committed team in providing a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient nephrology and kidney transplantation services for University Hospitals Plymouth, based at Derriford Hospital. Although we are looking to appoint a full-time colleague, we would be willing to work constructively with the successful candidate to accommodate less than full-time working, if desired.

For candidates wishing to develop a clinical research career there is the potential to negotiate designated research PAs from the University of Plymouth upon successful appointment. You are invited to discuss this with Dr Houlberg (Service Line Lead for Nephrology) or Dr Saif (Director of Transplantation) when you make enquiries about the post.

The successful candidate will also be expected to play an active role in the development and medical management of our department; to participate in the training and education of medical students, junior medical staff, nursing staff and allied health professionals and to contribute to our regular hospital grand round, regional academic meetings, audit meetings and journal clubs.

For full description, please see attached job description document.

The successful appointee will be expected to have a broad training in general nephrology and in particular to have, current experience in transplantation medicine. They will be expected to play a major part in the day-to-day activities of renal replacement therapy provision and the general nephrology service. They would be supported to develop our home dialysis programme.

Currently, general nephrology, pre-dialysis and renal replacement therapy patients are allocated to a lead consultant. Care for transplant recipients is provided via a team-based approach by the consultant nephrologists and transplant surgeons. The ward care and on call is organised using an acute “week on service” and chronic “week on service” model. Supervision of the hub dialysis unit is arranged on a trimonthly rota. They will also have a fortnightly general nephrology outpatient clinic and a share in other clinics for pre-dialysis, dialysis review, transplant assessment and transplant follow up. The transplant clinics also include joint input with the transplant surgeons.

All service lines within the medical care group contribute to General (Internal) Medicine either through the Acute Medical Unit or through the provision of care to general medical patients on surgical wards (medical outliers). The successful applicant would be expected to contribute 1PA of time to Acute Medicine

For full description, please see attached job description document.

Who we Care for

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is the largest hospital in the south west peninsula, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare.

Our geography gives us a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy. Population ageing is a recognised national trend, but is exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in. The proportion of our population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years, giving Plymouth the opportunity to innovate on behalf the nation in services for the elderly.

We work within a network of other hospitals to offer a range of specialist services:

• Kidney transplant
• Pancreatic cancer surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Bone marrow transplant
• Upper Gastro-intestinal surgery
• Hepatobiliary surgery
• Neonatal intensive care and high risk obstetrics
• Plastic surgery
• Liver transplant evaluation
• Stereotactic radiosurgery

Please see attachment on this right hand side of this page to view the full job plan proposed, which can be discussed in more detail and amended at interview.