Job overview

The Renal Department is friendly, supportive, professional and willing to invest time in supporting your own professional development by offering excellent training and educational opportunities and career support.

You will join a strong Renal Consultant team providing specialist services to the region. We treat patients from east and west Kent; with a Centre Haemodialysis Unit at Kent and Canterbury Hospital with five Satellite Units covering east and west Kent  at; Margate, Medway , Maidstone,  Ashford and Folkstone,. In conjunction with Guy's Hospital London, we have a thriving Transplant  team bring our patient back to the renal team at the earliest opportunity.

 Duties will include: supporting Renal Inpatient Services, Renal On calls, Renal Rapid Assessment ‘Hot Clinics’ to provide admission avoidance and early discharge to support acute front door services; outpatient management of Nephrology, Haemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis patients; teaching both within the department and the wider organisation in this is an exciting and innovative new role.

Supporting our 14 Consultant Nephrologist are: 12 Junior doctors encompass: 6 x Specialty Training Registrars; 2 x IMT; 2 x FY2s and 2 x FY1. You will also be working with an incredibly robust Nursing, AHP and A&C teams. Team Working is how we assist our patients to live the ‘best life possible’ within the patient care and creating robust services.

Main duties of the job

This post will provide five core specialist roles:

• Acute inpatient Renal Medicine on Marlowe Ward at Kent and Canterbury Hospital (1 month in every 5 months)
• Renal On-calls: 1 in 10
• Renal rapid assessment ‘Hot Clinics’ and Renal specialist advice and in-reach on the QEQM site 2-3 days each week
• General Nephrology clinic alternate weeks at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
• Haemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis clinical responsibility at both QEQM and Kent and Canterbury Hospital

This post will initially be based around a 10 PA clinical job plan, including time for SPA (supporting professional activities) and administrative time.

There will also be a number of potential additional exciting opportunities available and open to you including:

• Teaching for the new Kent and Medway Medical School or the GKT School of Medical Education, King’s College London
• Procedure supervision and to assist in our desire to develop a Local Anaesthetic Peritoneal Dialysis (LAPD) Service
• Supporting our Home Therapies Renal Network KQUIP (Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership) project

Working for our organisation

The Trust has five hospitals providing a wide range of high quality services and opportunities for innovation. The William Harvey Hospital in Ashford has the full range of district general hospital services, as well as regional specialties, including the country’s best performing trauma unit. The Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, also provides district general hospital services, while Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury is a specialist services hub which provides adult medical care, inpatient renal, urology and vascular services and robotic surgery.

We have a clear clinically-led strategy to transform secondary care in east Kent to deliver outstanding standards across all specialties which build services around the characteristics of our patients and a commitment to refreshing our estate and facilities.

Through our Family First scheme we pledge to find roles for partners of consultants offered a substantive post - For more information please visit https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/careers/family-first-scheme/ 

We also offer removal expenses (substantive positions), up to 32 days’ annual leave and active support for study, quality improvement and patient safety work as part of our ‘We care’ improvement journey, and medical education and research.