Senior Clinical Fellow in Renal Medicine | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The Trust Fellowship is 75% clinical, with exposure to all aspects of renal and transplant medicine, while allowing significant time (25%) for dedicated renal or transplant research, clinical experience in subspecialty areas of renal medicine, or leadership / management experience according to the trainee’s needs.The post will be for one year, but may be extended for a further year.
The fellowship is suitable for post-CCT traineesor nephrologists in the earlier stages of their training who have completed IMT (or equivalent) and hold MRCP, who are looking to gain expertise in Renal Medicine alongside gaining experience in a related aspect such as research, procedures or management.
Applicants are required to have full GMC registration with a license to practice, have completed IMT (or equivalent) training, andbe MRCP (UK) qualified. For further requirements for the post, please read the Person Specification.
The fellow will divide their time between clinical work (75%) including inpatient work, outpatient work and an on-call rota, and research/subspecialist experience/leadership and management (25%). Clinical work includes regular exposure to acute transplantation and glomerulonephritis, and working on a renal high dependency unit.Outpatient work includes covering our satellite services at hospital sites across north west London.
Non-clinical time will be flexible to accommodate the successful candidate’s preferences and interest. The appointed fellow will either alternate between blocks of 9 weeks of clinical work and 3 weeks of non-clinical time, or this time can be split during the working week - according to the fellow’s needs.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational.You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and controlprocedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Clinical (75%):
In-patients
Ward work on 3 acute nephrology wards
On-call on a renal high dependency unit
Taking transplant offers from NHSBT
On-call covering our 2 renal admissions units, co-ordinating transfers in from other centres.
Outpatients
Specialist renal outpatient clinics in-centre (transplant, GN, lupus, PD, renal-genetics, obstetric nephrology)
General nephrology and advanced kidney care clinics at satellite units across north-west London
Non-clinical work (25%):
This will be tailored to the needs to the fellow and could include:
Research
Audit, quality improvement and service development
Subspecialty clinical experience (vasculitis, lupus, transplantation, procedures)
Leadership and management
There are a number of educational opportunities to support the post:
Renal X-ray MDT (weekly)
Renal Histopathology MDT (weekly)
Renal subspecialty MDT / research forums (lupus, GN, complex transplant, dialysis, frailty)
Renal Grand Round (monthly)
Trust Grand Round (weekly)
Renal SpR / senior fellow training afternoon (monthly)
Renal junior trainee teaching programme – open to all grades (weekly)
Trainee / peer lead teaching (fortnightly)
Renal Open Meeting (monthly), multidisciplinary
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Oct 2024