Consultant in Nephrologist

The role will support the consultant team in the delivery of the 24/7 renal on-call, outreach and ward cover. The indicative job plan below highlights your individual commitments, but these will be agreed as part of the formal job planning process. Renal Clinical Lead will be able to discuss the proposed job plan with you in more depth. After review of the job plan It is very likely the candidate will have responsibility of managing dialysis patients and will be expected to travel to our satellite dialysis units for clinics as well as management of our satellite dialysis units. Since we are expecting the expansion of renal services Job plan and role may change according to clinical and departmental needs. We are expecting the candidate will develop skills and experience to lead our pre dialysis slash low clearance service in future.

A standard full time Job Plan will contain 10 programmed activities (PAs) comprising 8 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and 2 for supporting activities (SPAs). 1.5 SPAs are classed as 'core' and cover time for training, teaching, CPD, audit, appraisal, clinical governance and attendance at service meetings. There are opportunities to participate in undergraduate teaching within the HYMS medical school curriculum. Additional SPA time can be allocated for research, clinical management and educational supervisor (ES) activity. It is envisaged that this post would include the educational supervision of at least one trainee per year who could be from any level of training from FY1 to speciality registrar. It is expected that the appointee will have completed ES training or complete this within a short time of taking up the post. All new appointees will be encouraged to develop their management skills by taking on a management role which could include assisting more senior colleagues with the organisation of educational activities, audit, junior doctor management, recruitment etc. Personal preferences can be taken into account and training will be