This is a 6 month post as a LAS ST3+ in Renal Medicine designed to equip the successful applicant to gain experience in Renal Medicine and thereby further their career in Renal Medicine.
The post holder will be working with a team of Consultants, Specialty Doctors, Trust Doctors, Specialty Trainees, Core Trainees and Foundation Trainees. The responsibility of the LAS ST3+ is to provide good clinical care in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation as directed by senior colleagues and clinical circumstances in line with the GMC's Good Medical Practice.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
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At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
The successful candidate will join a team of middle grade doctors including specialty trainees specialty doctors and such others as are in post. The fellow's main duties will include providing inpatient cover on the renal ward, providing an outpatient service alongside consultants, providing a referral service to other specialties carrying out specific treatments and procedures (once adequately trained) following prevalent unit guidelines. The post holder will be part of a Rota to provide inpatient cover on the renal ward when she/he will be posted on the ward for a month at a time. The nephrology and transplant clinics will be allocated monthly although they will have fixed clinic commitments in dialysis medicine. The middle grade doctors will take turns to provide the referral service. The fellow will also be part of a renal middle grade on- call Rota.