Job summary
A new opportunity has risen to join our team for the post of Consultant in Nephrology and General Medicine. This post will be based in West Suffolk Hospital which covers a 33 bedded ward. The post involves out-patient and in-patient duties and regular commitment to both in-reach into the medical admissions unit and on-call for general medicine.
The West Suffolk Nephrology team is currently looking for a consultant Nephrologist to complement the current team to enhance the current service, as we look forward towards the new hospital build. The applicant would be looking after patients on the Nephrology ward which is currently shared by 3 existing consultants . The consultants are currently rotating on and off the ward alongside additional Locum/Fixed Term cover. This provides opportunity for service development if this is of interest.
We would hope that the applicant would be able to continue the practical skills of renal biopsy at inpatient level. The hospital is also looking towards developing acute dialysis as we move towards the new hospital which will require a separate on-call rota.
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Interviews to be held on Friday, 1st May 2026
Main duties of the job
o To join 3 existing consultants in managing Renal Services at West Suffolk Hospital.o Provide advice and day to day management of medical inpatients with renal disease.o Provision of outpatient services in renal medicine at West Suffolk Hospital.o To take part in the physicians on call rota at West Suffolk Hospital and to manage medical inpatients on F8/associated outlying wards.o Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of all in-patients and out-patient under the care of your team.o Teaching and training of intermediate, junior staff, nursing staff and medical students.o To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.o To fulfil obligations relating to continuing medical education and professional development, appraisal and revalidation.
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About us
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We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a full-time post based at West Suffolk Hospital but with clinical links to Addenbrookes Hospital. The post is funded for 10 PAs. The post-holder will join team consultant colleagues (Dr Chong, Dr Petchey and Dr Syed Hasan Ahmad) in the Nephrology Department.
The appointee will continue current nephrology services including weekly general nephrology clinics. The appointee is expected provide a high standard of care to renal patients and a consultant opinion on any patient referred to nephrology services.
In addition, the candidate will be expected to share supervision and support of the renal nurse specialist with the existing nephrologists.
The appointee may be on-call 1:10 (subject to change) on weekdays and at weekends. The inpatient beds will be shared with, Dr W Petchey and Dr Syed Hasan Ahmad Consultant Physician, on ward F8 and associated outlying medical wards (wards F5/6). The idea would be for rotation of the consultants on and off the ward.
The weekday working pattern starts at 08:30hrs until 17.00hrs Monday to Fridays. There are protected shifts for administration and SPA time (1.5PAs). All medical staff are now ward based, and the appointee will conduct regular ward rounds including board rounds as agreed on the Job Plan. There are seven doctors in training based on the ward, including one SpR in General Medicine & Rheumatology, two IMT3, 1 CMT one FY2, one STGP trainee and two FY1s.
The appointee will be responsible for emergency care ward rounds when on call. The division of medicine operate a physician of the day service, with the on-call physician starting the ward round on the following morning. The on-call physicians clinics are reduced /cancelled on the following morning.
The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours.
Please See Full Job Description attached for details
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a full-time post based at West Suffolk Hospital but with clinical links to Addenbrookes Hospital. The post is funded for 10 PAs. The post-holder will join team consultant colleagues (Dr Chong, Dr Petchey and Dr Syed Hasan Ahmad) in the Nephrology Department.
The appointee will continue current nephrology services including weekly general nephrology clinics. The appointee is expected provide a high standard of care to renal patients and a consultant opinion on any patient referred to nephrology services.
In addition, the candidate will be expected to share supervision and support of the renal nurse specialist with the existing nephrologists.
The appointee may be on-call 1:10 (subject to change) on weekdays and at weekends. The inpatient beds will be shared with, Dr W Petchey and Dr Syed Hasan Ahmad Consultant Physician, on ward F8 and associated outlying medical wards (wards F5/6). The idea would be for rotation of the consultants on and off the ward.
The weekday working pattern starts at 08:30hrs until 17.00hrs Monday to Fridays. There are protected shifts for administration and SPA time (1.5PAs). All medical staff are now ward based, and the appointee will conduct regular ward rounds including board rounds as agreed on the Job Plan. There are seven doctors in training based on the ward, including one SpR in General Medicine & Rheumatology, two IMT3, 1 CMT one FY2, one STGP trainee and two FY1s.
The appointee will be responsible for emergency care ward rounds when on call. The division of medicine operate a physician of the day service, with the on-call physician starting the ward round on the following morning. The on-call physicians clinics are reduced /cancelled on the following morning.
The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours.
Please See Full Job Description attached for details
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Entry on the GMC specialist register in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) at the time of interview.
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
Desirable
- MD or PhD
- MRCP (Nephrology)
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine
- Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology
- Experience in management of Nephrology inpatient and out-patient medicine.
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis.
Desirable
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent.
- Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar
Teaching and Training
Essential
- Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- Experience of teaching other professional groups
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
Management & Audit Training
Essential
- Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics.
- Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities.
- Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery.
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets.
Personal Skills & Qualities
Essential
- Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
- The ability to work as a team member.
- Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Caring attitude to patients
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Ability to travel to all rural locations.
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative
- Passionate and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards.
- To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidence-based best practice.
- Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team.
- To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience.
Appraisal
Essential
- To have training and experience in appraisal systems
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology
- oAll applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: ?PLAB 1 ?PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they will need to provide evidence.
Research & Publications
Essential
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Desirable
- Experience of conducting research projects
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Clinical Governance
Essential
- To have a broad understanding of all elements of, and a commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance
Standards
Essential
- To have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of "Good Medical Practice" from the GMC
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Entry on the GMC specialist register in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) at the time of interview.
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
Desirable
- MD or PhD
- MRCP (Nephrology)
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine
- Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology
- Experience in management of Nephrology inpatient and out-patient medicine.
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis.
Desirable
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent.
- Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar
Teaching and Training
Essential
- Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- Experience of teaching other professional groups
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
Management & Audit Training
Essential
- Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics.
- Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities.
- Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery.
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets.
Personal Skills & Qualities
Essential
- Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose
- The ability to work as a team member.
- Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Caring attitude to patients
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Ability to travel to all rural locations.
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative
- Passionate and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards.
- To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidence-based best practice.
- Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team.
- To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience.
Appraisal
Essential
- To have training and experience in appraisal systems
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology
- oAll applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: ?PLAB 1 ?PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they will need to provide evidence.
Research & Publications
Essential
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Desirable
- Experience of conducting research projects
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Clinical Governance
Essential
- To have a broad understanding of all elements of, and a commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance
Standards
Essential
- To have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of "Good Medical Practice" from the GMC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
