Locum Consultant in Renal MedicineNHS

Job summary

The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity to welcome a new Locum Consultant in Renal Medicine. This is an exciting opportunity with the successful candidate being supported by a team of junior doctors (of training and non-training grades), Specialist nurses, advanced practitioners, nurses, therapists, and in reach of specialists across the hospital. Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.

The renal inpatient beds are situated on an 18-bed ward - Ward 35. There are Consultant ward rounds on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning and 'board rounds' Monday - Friday morning. There is a Friday 4:00pm handover to the weekend covering Consultant. All renal Consultants have equal access to junior doctors. We have 2 Speciality Doctors who will support the renal wards depending on the staffing levels of junior Doctors.Additional support for the renal service includes a nurse operational manager, modality sister, renal anaemia coordinator, home haemodialysis sister, vascular access sister, pre-end stage dialysis sister, renal transplant sister, and 2 dieticians. At RSH site we also have a West Midlands Renal SpR, 2 Specialty Doctors, an IMT3, CT2, CT1, FY1, a GPVTS trainee, a FY3 and a physician associate. Weekly multi-disciplinary meetings, a monthly renal forum, monthly governance, monthly histopathology meeting and fortnightly educational meetings also take place.

Main duties of the job

o Be a part of a consultant lead clinical team providing specialty and General medical care to medical inpatients.o To support on-call in-patient ward cover teamo To develop enhanced clinical skills, especially in the assessment and management of acutely ill patients.o To have excellent team-working skills with the abilities and professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.o To deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.o To follow patients throughout their clinical pathways.

Job description

A formal job plan will be agreed between the successful candidate and their Clinical Director and consultant colleagues, on behalf of the Medical Director within 3 months of starting in post. A full-time job plan is based on a 10 PA working week including 1 additional PA for the emergency PPCI work. The job plan will be reviewed annually and is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultants professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external and will include personal objectives, detailing links to wider service improvements and trust strategic priorities.For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part-time post) as: 8.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity and predictable and unpredictable emergency work. 1.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.The allocation of PAs is reviewed and may be subject to adjustment when a further diary exercise is undertaken or if the service demands a review of the team job plan.Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with other consultant colleagues.

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