Consultant in Nephrologist: Sponsorship Available

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

  • Full Registration with the GMC
  • Full Registration with the GMC . GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months)

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • . MBBS or equivalent qualification
  • Valid ALS certificate

Desirable

  • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical and renal conditions
  • Ability and NHS experience to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
  • Experience and understanding of the NHS pathways of managing renal patients.

Desirable

  • Acting up as consultant or consultant experience. Understanding and experience of managing renal replacement therapy , particularly dialysis patient / satellite dialysis unit management

Management and Administration Experience

Essential

  • Ability to manage and lead medical/renal teams
  • . Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

Desirable

  • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • . Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical Students
  • Evidence of participation in audit
  • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients

Desirable

  • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
  • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
  • . Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

Desirable

  • Ability and means to travel to our Dialysis satellite units.

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

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 12 November 2026

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