Senior Clinical Fellow in Renal Medicine

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit Senior Clinical Fellows in Renal Medicine within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for posts becoming vacant in 2025. The post is based in the Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre at the Hammersmith Hospital, which is the largest renal and transplant centre in Europe. The Trust Fellowship is 75% clinical, with exposure to all aspects of renal and transplant medicine, while allowing significant time (25%) for dedicated renal or transplant research, clinical experience in subspecialty areas of renal medicine, or leadership / management experience according to the trainee's needs. The post will be for one year, but may be extended for a further year. The fellowship is suitable for post-CCT trainees or nephrologists in the earlier stages of their training who have completed IMT (or equivalent) and hold MRCP, who are looking to gain expertise in Renal Medicine alongside gaining experience in a related aspect such as research, procedures or management.

Applicants are required to have full GMC registration with a license to practice, have completed IMT (or equivalent) training, and be MRCP (UK) qualified. For further requirements for the post, please read the Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The fellow will divide their time between clinical work (75%) including inpatient work, outpatient work and an on-call rota, and research/subspecialist experience/leadership and management (25%). Clinical work includes regular exposure to acute transplantation and glomerulonephritis, and working on a renal high dependency unit. Outpatient work includes covering our satellite services at hospital sites across north west London.

Non-clinical time will be flexible to accommodate the successful candidate's preferences and interest. The appointed fellow will either alternate between blocks of 9 weeks of clinical work and 3 weeks of non-clinical time, or this time can be split during the working week - according to the fellow's needs.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical (75%):

In-patients

Ward work on 3 acute nephrology wards

On-call on a renal high dependency unit

Taking transplant offers from NHSBT

On-call covering our 2 renal admissions units, co-ordinating transfers in from other centres.

Outpatients

Specialist renal outpatient clinics in-centre (transplant, GN, lupus, PD, renal-genetics, obstetric nephrology)

General nephrology and advanced kidney care clinics at satellite units across north-west London

Non-clinical work (25%):

This will be tailored to the needs to the fellow and could include:

Research

Audit, quality improvement and service development

Subspecialty clinical experience (vasculitis, lupus, transplantation, procedures)

Leadership and management

There are a number of educational opportunities to support the post:

Renal X-ray MDT (weekly)

Renal Histopathology MDT (weekly)

Renal subspecialty MDT / research forums (lupus, GN, complex transplant, dialysis, frailty)

Renal Grand Round (monthly)

Trust Grand Round (weekly)

Renal SpR / senior fellow training afternoon (monthly)

Renal junior trainee teaching programme - open to all grades (weekly)

Trainee / peer lead teaching (fortnightly)

Renal Open Meeting (monthly), multidisciplinary

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
• On GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the register by the date of the interviews or eligible for specialist registration
• MRCP

Desirable criteria

• MD, PhD ESE Nephrology

Leadership/ management skills

Essential criteria

• Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
• Have proven skills in leading, motivating, developing and managing the performance of colleagues.
• Knowledge of finance/budgets
• Management of staff

Knowledge/skills Clinical expertise in Specialty/sub specialty

Essential criteria

• Evidence of experience and commitment to a career in renal medicine
• IT Skills and computer literacy

Desirable criteria

• Membership of appropriate professional society(ies), knowledge of the up to date literature.

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements.

Audit

Essential criteria

• Evidence of involvement and leadership in multi-disciplinary audit.
• Understanding of principles of clinical audit.

Teaching & Training

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Desirable criteria

• Formal training in teaching skills

Management Skills

Essential criteria

• Active participation in and broad understanding of Clinical Governance.

Academic achievements including research/publications

Essential criteria

• Evidence of achievement appropriate to appointment at registrar level at ICHNT.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD&PS (PDF, 888.2KB)
• FRF (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Aspire to values (PDF, 132.8KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)