Senior Clinical Fellow (MT04 or MT05) in Paediatric Hepatology

Clinical:
To supervise Senior House Officers and to work with Specialist Registrars performing day to day care of the liver patients in Rays of Sunshine Ward, Day Case Unit and Outpatient clinics.
To maintain high quality communication both spoken and written with patients, parents, GP's and referring consultants
All aspects of documentation and care of paediatric hepatology inpatients.
Attendance on consultant led ward rounds.
Teaching:
Assistance in conjunction with specialist registrars/consultants with the teaching of undergraduate medical students.
Research/Audit:
Involvement in the research interests of the department and audit will be encouraged.
Administration:
Responsible for the day to day management of the junior doctors.,

• Advanced management of complex hepatological and gastrointestinal disorders including fulminant hepatic failure (50 referrals per year) and short bowel syndrome


• Diagnosis and management of acute and chronic liver diseases, metabolic liver diseases and liver tumours.


• Assessment of patient for liver transplantation and small bowel transplantation


• Pre, during and post liver and small bowel transplantation care


• Management of post transplant immunosuppression


• Counselling of parents of children with complex hepatic and gastrointestinal conditions


• Follow up of children with complex liver disorders, and with chronic intestinal disorders


• Nutritional assessment - assessment of nutritional status, dietary requirements, theory and techniques of enteral and parental nutrition support; role of nutrition support teams and special needs


• Attain skills in co-operation with other specialists (surgery, radiology, pathology etc )


• Research and audit in the aspects of the field of hepatology, immunology and gastroenterology


• Achieve skills in teaching undergraduates and awareness of aids to teaching
  
  Paediatric liver centre, based at King's College Hospital, has been a supra-regional tertiary referral centre since 1986 and is the largest in the UK. It has an international reputation in research and the provision of high quality clinical care to children with acute and chronic liver diseases, metabolic liver diseases , pre and post liver transplant care, short gut syndrome, pre and post small bowel transplant care and complex hepatobiliary surgery . Ongoing research projects include autoimmune liver disease, biliary atresia, cholestatic liver diseases, hepatocyte transplantation, viral hepatitis and acute liver failure.


Working for our organisation
King's College Hospital is one of the largest and busiest in London, with a well-established national and international reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and achievement. Two thirds of the clinical activities of the hospital are in support of the socially and economically diverse communities of the boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth. As both a healthcare provider and a major employer with over 7,000 staff, King's plays an important part in helping reduce local, social and health inequalities. The hospital provides a broad range of secondary services, including specialist emergency medicine (e.g. trauma, cardiac and stroke). It also provides a number of leading edge tertiary services, such as liver transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology, foetal medicine, cardiology and cardiac surgery, on a regional and national basis.
King's College Hospital has an enviable track record in research and development and service innovation. In partnership with King's College London the Trust has recently been awarded a National Research Centre in Patient Safety and Service Quality. It is also a partner in two National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centres. The first is a Comprehensive centre with King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and the second is a Specialist centre with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry. King's College