Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Locum Consultant Nephrologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust with subspecialty interest in Renal Transplant Medicine. The post is for a fixed term of 12 months. The successful applicant will support our outpatient renal transplant service and undertake outpatient nephrology clinics and the full range of our inpatient nephrology and acute transplantation services. The post comprises 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with potential for additional PAs by mutual agreement.
Responsibilities
* Support outpatient renal transplant service and undertake outpatient nephrology clinics.
* Contribute to the full range of inpatient nephrology and acute transplantation services.
* Provide clinical care within the stated workload with flexibility for potential additional PAs by mutual agreement.
About the unit
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is a large university teaching hospital serving a local population of 675,000 and has a Renal Transplantation catchment area of 1.79 million. The emergency department based on the Queens Medical Campus is one of the busiest in Europe. As a major teaching Trust, NUH maintains close links with the city’s universities and attracts and develops highly capable staff. There are around 100 patients on peritoneal dialysis (mostly APD). The unit runs an in-house assisted APD programme, with expansion to provide connect and disconnect services, and recently introduced a medical PD insertion pathway.
There are typically around 380–400 patients on haemodialysis across multiple units and sites, and around 720 transplant patients are under regular review. The unit performs approximately 80 adult renal transplants per year, from both DCD and DBD donors, and has an active live donor kidney transplant programme with ongoing expansion plans. There are currently approximately 250 patients on the transplant list.
The Nottingham Renal and Transplant Unit provides all aspects of care for adult patients with renal disease for the mid-Trent area. The related Paediatric Nephrology Unit takes referrals from the whole of Trent, South Yorkshire and the North Anglia area. Our clinical facilities include a 12-bedded higher dependency ward for renal transplants (Carrel ward) and a 20-bedded general nephrology ward (Bramley ward), with haemodialysis available in inpatient spaces and central telemetry on the higher dependency ward. An outpatient department, home therapies area, offices, and two adjacent haemodialysis units (26 and 14 stations) support patient care.
Geography: The Nottingham Renal and Transplant Unit serves a population of approximately one million for dialysis, with most patients from Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. Nottingham is the only centre in the region for paediatric nephrology.
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