Locum Consultant in Transplant Nephrology

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for nephrology consultants who have a specialist interest in transplantation to join our department. We are advertising 2 Locum Consultant Transplant Nephrology posts to support the current team and contribute to the expansion of Cardiff Transplant Unit.

The Nephrology and Transplant Directorate serves a population of approximately 1.4 million people in South East Wales, providing a complete range of diagnostic and therapeutic services including dialysis and transplantation.

The Transplant Unit at UHW is a leader in the field, performing approximately 120 adult transplants per year. This includes compatible and blood group and HLA incompatible living donors (approximately 50 per year), deceased donors (donation after brainstem death (DBD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD), approximately 60-80 per year), and Pancreas transplants (approximately 8-15 per year). The unit has a stand-alone multi-organ retrieval team and is part of National Organ Retrieval Services (NORS) providing abdominal retrieval services nationally and Normothermic Organ Perfusion (one of the 3 units recognised for the current provision of Normothermic perfusion).

The unit has one of the largest experiences in the country in ABOi and HLAi transplants in close collaboration with the Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Laboratory of South Wales with excellent results.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with Consultant colleagues as well as a broad multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality nephrology and transplant services to our patients.

The post holder will work with a team of 4 Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physicians and 9 Consultant Transplant Surgeons to deliver kidney and pancreas transplant services to the 1.5 million population of South and Mid Wales and pancreas transplant for Shrewsbury.

The successful candidate will also provide outpatient care in a general nephrology clinic and to a cohort of dialysis patients.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is recognised as a teaching centre of excellence in a wide range of clinical services.

Although this post is full-time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements.

Applicants should either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within three months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT / CESR(CP) at the time of interview.

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • On GMC Specialist Register for Renal Medicine / Specialty Registrar with CCT / CESR (Combined Programme) due within 3 months of interview date
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent

Desirable

  • Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD

Experience

Essential

  • Broad training in Renal Medicine
  • Experience of sub-specialty training in transplantation in an acute transplanting unit

Desirable

  • Fellowship / Post-CCT fellowship in Transplantation
  • Experience of pancreas transplantation
  • Experience of living donor assessments
  • Transplant Immunology experience

Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of effective team and multi-disciplinary working
  • Effective and demonstrable communication skills

Clinical Governance

Essential

  • Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
  • Evidence of proactive engagement with appraisal and revalidation (or equivalent)

Research

Essential

  • Ability to critically appraise research
  • Evidence of active research interests

Teaching

Essential

  • Evidence of teaching medical students and junior doctors

Management

Essential

  • Evidence of effective leadership skills

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: 19 July 2026

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