Consultant Transplant & Organ Retrieval Surgeon

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board in the UK is seeking a Consultant Transplant Surgeon based in Cardiff. The role involves providing kidney and pancreas transplant services and participating in the National Organ Retrieval Service. Applicants should be on the Specialist Register or shortly due for their CCT. The salary ranges from £110,240 to £160,951 per annum. Flexible working arrangements are considered.

Qualifications

• Manage all aspects of kidney transplantation including recipient work-up and organ offer assessment.
• Significant experience in transplant surgical procedures and their complications.
• Ability to perform primary and secondary vascular access procedures.

Responsibilities

• Deliver kidney and pancreas transplant services to the population of South and Mid Wales.
• Contribute to general surgery procedures for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Participate in the UK National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS).

Skills

Effective team and multidisciplinary working

Effective communication skills

Education

On GMC Specialist Register or CCT due within 6 months

Higher Degree: MD by research or MD (desirable)

Job description

Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Transplant Surgeon in the Nephrology & Transplant department based at University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff.

The Transplant Unit at UHW is a leader in the field, performing approximately 140 adult transplants per year. This includes compatible and blood group and HLA incompatible living donors (approximately 50 per year), deceased donors (donation after brainstem death (DBD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD), approximately 60-80 per year), and Pancreas transplants (approximately 8-15 per year). The unit has a stand‑alone multi‑organ retrieval team and is part of National Organ Retrieval Services (NORS) providing abdominal retrieval services and Normothermic Organ Perfusion nationally.

The unit has one of the largest experiences in the country in ABOi and HLAi transplants in close collaboration with the Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Laboratory of South Wales with excellent results.

The Transplant Unit provides access surgery and general surgical cover for the patients on the renal failure programme. It has access to an increasing number of General Surgical operating lists, and outpatient clinics leading to a wide and varied surgical practice. The 4 Consultants currently involved in general surgery provide the majority of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies and hernias for the UHB.

Cardiff and Vale UHB is recognised as a teaching centre of excellence in a wide range of clinical services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as one of a team of 9 Consultant Surgeons to deliver kidney and pancreas transplant services to the 1.5 million population of South and Mid Wales and pancreas transplant for Shrewsbury. They will also work as part of the team providing vascular access and general surgery procedures to patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in South East Wales.

This is a full‑time (10 session) post based at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, with a requirement to participate in the UK National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS) that will necessitate for the post holder to travel to donor hospitals across the UK.

Although this post is full‑time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements.

Applicants should either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within six months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT at the time of interview.

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales. The basic salary range for this post is £110,240 per annum to £160,951 per annum.

Applicants must ensure they provide names and contact details of referees covering at least the last 3 years of their employment/training history in full. In addition, applicants who are currently or have most recently been employed as a substantive Consultant or as a Locum Consultant in post for more than 12 months must also provide the name of their Medical Director as an additional referee.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• On GMC Specialist Register for specialty / Specialty Registrar with CCT due within 6 months of interview date (note that Portfolio Pathway applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application)

Desirable

• Higher Degree: MD by research or MD

Experience

Essential

• Ability to manage all aspects of kidney transplantation including recipient work‑up, organ offer assessment, significant experience in the transplant surgical procedure and its common complications treatments, peri‑operative ward care, and post‑operative outpatient care
• Experience in pancreas transplantation
• Ability to perform the full range of primary and secondary vascular access procedures

Desirable

• Experience in living donor nephrectomy
• Ability to lead abdominal organ retrieval procedures independently

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of effective team and multidisciplinary working
• Effective and demonstrable communication skills

Clinical Governance

Essential

• Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
• Evidence of proactive engagement with appraisal and revalidation (or equivalent)

Research

Essential

• Evidence of active research interests

Desirable

• Evidence of significant publication record
• Track record indicating the ability to establish significant research interest

Teaching

Essential

• Evidence of teaching medical students and junior doctors

Management

Essential

• Evidence of effective leadership skills

Desirable

• Evidence of service development
• Specific skills or training / evidence relevant to a new service development (robotic surgery, urological procedures in transplantation, ex vivo normothermic perfusion, research etc)