Consultant Nephrologist with special Interest in Haemodialysis

This is a substantive consultant nephrologist post with a predominant focus on haemodialysis and CKD/general nephrology. The post includes general nephrology clinics at Denmark Hill and QEH sites. The post holder will also have an important role in the service transformation project covering our CKD and general nephrology outpatient services.

In addition they will be part of our haemodialysis team leading the medical care of a cohort of haemodialysis patients at the Thamesmead HD unit.

The post holder will contribute to acute renal care contributing to the inpatient renal ward care at Kings, Denmark Hill and also consult/referrals work at KCH and at QEH.

The postholder will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group including having a commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The post will be primarily based at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill site, with off mainsite clinical activities at the the Thamesmead Dialysis Unit and Queen Elizabeth Hospital renal clinic (Woolwich).

The proposed Job Plan (10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

The On-Call commitment is classed as Category A (3%), 1 in 13. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs. The on call rota is currently under review and provision may change.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust's sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues, in order to provide high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum including London Zone Allowance