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Consultant in Renal and Acute Medicine

At AmongDoctors EventsSt Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job description

This post is for a Consultant in Renal and Acute Medicine working between two dynamic trusts. This is a full time 10 PA post initially offering an additional 2PA (as detailed in the job plan within the JD – additional PA’s may be subject to change to support service need). This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated physician to join and lead an award winning, research driven, education oriented, dynamic and multi-professional team. 3 PA of the post is for activities provided for LUHFT, 2 PA of work for the Acute Medical Unit at STHK and 7 PA of work for Renal Medicine at STHK. The post holder will also contribute to the out of hours General Internal Medicine Physician of the Day (PoD) rota with a 3% on call supplement.

Key Duties:

  • Provide advice and day to day management of medical in-patients with renal disease at STHK, linking with LUHFT tertiary unit when indicated
  • Provision of outpatient services in renal medicine including post AKI and Renal Hot clinics
  • To join the existing Acute Medical Consultants in providing a comprehensive and timely assessment of patients presenting to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), including Same Day Emergency and Enhanced Care
  • To oversee dialysis care for patients at the satellite dialysis unit at St Helens hospital in collaboration with LUHFT colleagues
  • To participate in teaching and training of junior staff, medical students, and Advanced Nurse / Clinical Practitioners and Pharmacists based on the Renal team as well as AMU
  • To participate actively in both Departmental and Trust Clinical Governance and Audit
  • To fulfil obligations relating to continuing medical education and professional development, appraisal and revalidation

Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council.

Company Description

​​​​​St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is not only one of the largest employing organisations in Merseyside and Cheshire,​ it's also one of the best in England and you can be a part of our team.

Whatever area you work in, as a member of our award-winning staff, you'll have​ the opportunity to work in modern hospitals with state of the art facilities and be fully supported with training and development programmes. 

  • Our staff rated the organisation as the BEST acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside in the National NHS Staff Survey 2014
  • We were ranked in the top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal 2014)

The Trusts Education, Training and Conference Centre provides a modern and comfortable learning environment for our staff and state of the art educational facilities to aid in the delivery of high quality education and training.

The centre has a large, modern lecture theatre

4 IT rooms

4 Clinical skills rooms

2 simulation training rooms

1 student training room

5 seminar rooms

We offer an extensive range of fully funded apprenticeships, covering such diverse areas as business administration, healthcare support, catering and IT which enable staff to gain skills, confidence and knowledge in their role, resulting in better patient care.

• We are Investors in People accredited.

• Offer excellent staff benefits including on site, Health, Work & Wellbeing Service dedicated to supporting managers and staff within the workplace providing a range of services including holistic therapy, counselling and wellbeing initiatives and events such as the NHSNW Games.

• The Trust has an Employee of the Month Award and also organises an Annual black tie Awards Presentation Evening.

Job Details
  • REF: 409-2409983
  • Sector: Hospitals
  • Specialty: Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • Position: Medical Doctor
  • Type: Full-Time