Consultant in Nephrologist

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy, please see attached full job description and personal specification.

Person specification

Professional Registration

Essential criteria

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

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent qualification
• Valid ALS certificate

Desirable criteria

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

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 criteria

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

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 criteria

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

We recognise that candidates may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support them when preparing their application. Where AI is used, the information provided must remain an accurate and authentic representation of your own skills, knowledge and experience.

AI must not be used to provide false or misleading information or to generate examples that do not reflect your own experience. You should be able to discuss and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and experience included within your application during the recruitment and selection process.

Candidates may be asked to declare whether AI has been used in preparing their application and, where applicable, how it has been used.

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