Consultant Transplant Surgeon | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in London is seeking a Substantive Consultant Transplant Surgeon to join their expert team. The position involves managing kidney and kidney–pancreas transplantation, with responsibilities including surgical procedures, education, and follow-up care. Ideal candidates should be on the GMC Specialist Register or close to attaining it. Flexible working arrangements are offered to enhance work-life balance.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Must be on the GMC Specialist Register or equivalent, or within 6 months of attaining Specialist Registration at the time of interview.

Responsibilities

• Deliver deceased donor kidney and kidney–pancreas transplants.
• Participate in post-transplant follow-up clinics.
• Manage elective operating lists and on-call duties.

Skills

Surgical expertise in kidney transplantation

Experience with dialysis access procedures

Post-operative patient management

Education

GMC Specialist Register or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre at the Hammersmith Hospital, the largest renal and transplant centre in Europe, is looking for a Substantive Consultant Transplant Surgeon to join the team at the earliest opportunity. The successful candidate will join a team of six expert transplant surgeons to support and develop the delivery of kidney and kidney/pancreas transplantation, dialysis access, and related clinical services at ICHT and regionally across North West London. The post is to replace a vacancy created by a colleague moving to a different job.

Responsibilities

• Deliver deceased donor transplantation of kidney and kidney–pancreas transplants as part of a 1:6 non-resident on-call rota and participate in post-transplant follow-up clinics.
• Develop and contribute to continuing education, professional development, audit and research within the Division and Trust.
• Be based at the Imperial College Healthcare Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, with involvement in service provision after discussion with the Clinical Director and the Head of Service in areas of need such as living donor kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis access procedures.
• Support and participate in dialysis access clinics and the regional transplant follow-up and vascular access clinics, including on-site surgical clinics in satellite units.
• Participate in the perioperative management of patients, and contribute to the organisation of elective operating lists and on-call duties as required.

Transplantation and Dialysis Access Details

• The Directorate performs approximately 200–240 transplants each year.
• Active involvement in deceased donor transplantation of kidney and kidney–pancreas transplants.
• Allocation to 1 or 2 satellite dialysis units to provide regular outpatient clinics for transplantation assessment and dialysis access.
• Established transplant follow-up, vascular access clinics and peritoneal dialysis access clinics at the Hammersmith Hospital, with a large on-site PD program (>200 patients on maintenance) and a dedicated on-site PD surgical clinic.

On-Call and Outpatient Duties

• On-call duties: 1 in 6, intensity level A, with agreed on-call surgeon duties including pre/post-transplant ward rounds, emergency surgical reviews, and non-elective transplant operations.
• Outpatient clinics include transplant follow-up, outreach transplant work-up and dialysis access (satellite clinics), onsite vascular access, and transplant general surgery/pancreas work-up clinics (optional, subject to discussion).

Elective Operating and Meetings

• Elective operating lists: local anaesthetic vascular access and general anaesthetic lists (subject to job plan).
• Regular departmental meetings: Local Faculty Group meetings and monthly consultants’ meetings (included in SPA allowance).

Qualifications

Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or equivalent, or within 6 months of attaining Specialist Registration at the time of interview.

Benefits and Working Life

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Optional benefits include Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or onsite leisure facilities. Imperial College Healthcare is committed to equal opportunities and improving staff working lives, and flexible, part-time or job-share arrangements will be considered; discuss at interview.

Programmed Activities and Job Plan

Programmed Activities (PA’s): 10 PA contract including 8.5 DCC and 1.5 SPA (1.0 SPA for appraisal and revalidation). Total Clinical Workload: 8.5 DCC. On-call: 1 in 6, with agreed duties as listed above.

Advert Closing

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025.