Consultant in Renal Medicine
| Posting date: | 30 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-CON-906 |
Summary
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 centre 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. This post will 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 690 patients receiving haemodialysis, 75 receiving peritoneal dialysis, 24 on home haemodialysis and 1300 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 (including home haemodialysis) 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.