Locum Consultant Nephrologist | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Nephrology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust. This is a Locum Consultant appointment for reason of filling the vacancy whilst we wait to appoint on a substantive basis. The successful applicant will share the responsibilities for providing acute nephrology and AKI care in a large tertiary renal unit (non-transplant) and providing care for a cohort of general medical and renal patients and be part of a team of consultants performing practical procedures including tunneled dialysis catheter insertions, peritoneal dialysis catheters and native/transplant biopsies and training junior doctors. Dual accreditation in Renal and General Internal Medicine is desired. The post is based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage but with clinical activity at other satellite sites. The Lister Hospital enjoys a unique geographical location close to London and Cambridge and the Trust has a reputation for our commitment to the highest standards of care, but also for our friendly and supportive approach. At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
• Be part of a team of consultants performing practical procedures including tunnelled dialysis catheter insertions, peritoneal dialysis catheters and native/transplant biopsies and training junior doctors
• Provide care for a cohort of patients receiving renal replacement therapy
• Have joint responsibilities in overseeing delivery of an expanding OP service that includes specialist nephrology, outreach, and post-transplant clinics
• Have joint responsibility to participate in the referral/advisory service to nearby non-renal centres.
• Participate in the renal on call rota
• Participate in General internal medicine inpatient care
• Participate in the general medical on call rota