Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital trust in the North West is seeking a Consultant Nephrologist to join their expanding Critical Care team. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive general nephrology care, including outpatient clinics and inpatient reviews. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a state-of-the-art critical care expansion, ensuring high professional standards while working alongside a dedicated team. The position is located in Preston, with amenities and recreational activities within easy reach.

Qualifications

• Experience in nephrology and critical care.
• Commitment to high standards of clinical care.
• Ability to work in a team and manage administrative duties.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver critical care services.
• Participate in the consultant on-call duty rota.
• Care for patients in outpatient clinics and inpatient settings.

Job description

Role Overview

We are delighted to invite applications for a new Consultant colleague to join our team for this joint Nephrology and Critical Care role.

The post is part of an exciting Critical Care expansion. We have opened a state-of-the-art 34 bed unit at Royal Preston Hospital with advanced patient and relative facilities. For renal this is a Consultant Nephrologist post where the successful candidate will provide general nephrology care to our East Lancashire patients delivering outpatient clinics at the John Sagar Renal Centre, dialysis care at Laurie Solomon Renal Centre and in-reach to Royal Blackburn Hospital inpatients with renal issues once a week.

Main Duties of the Job

1. Have an active role in the planning, development and delivery of the critical care services.
2. Participate in the critical care consultant on-call rota.
3. Continuous commitment for the care of patients, ensuring, in consultation with colleagues, that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off-duty periods.
4. Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients.
5. Develop specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources.
6. Undertake a block working pattern on the Critical Care Unit.
7. Participate in the consultant on-call duty rota.
8. Undertake administrative duties involved with the care of patients.
9. Promote high professional standards of clinical care of patients and the health and safety of the critical care environment.
10. Maintain continuing education and professional development.

For renal, our general nephrology clinics will be in John Sagar Renal Centre, Burnley (face-to-face and virtual). In-patient bedside reviews may be required for Royal Blackburn inpatients and reviewing referrals via the referrals platform, PatientPass. Time is allocated in the job plan to reflect this commitment.

The successful candidate will work alongside our Laurie Solomon Renal Centre haemodialysis co-lead, Dr. Qurat Tak, to care for haemodialysis patients in the Blackburn catchment area.

The Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute trusts in the North West with all the usual specialities on site, as well as being a tertiary centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in the departments of trauma, neurosciences, oncology, plastic surgery & burns, vascular surgery in addition to renal medicine. Innovation and quality improvement are actively encouraged with support from our continuous improvement team. Undergraduate medical student teaching is highly respected and an essential component for all departments within our trust; as we develop active and developing links with the Universities of Manchester, Central Lancashire and Lancaster. There are many opportunities to develop your educational profile within and outside the trust.

Lancashire is an attractive area to live and has many facilities available locally. The cities of Manchester, Lancaster and Liverpool are within easy reach. Recreational facilities are many and varied, with the Lake District, Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales and the Fylde Coast nearby.