Job summary
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest providers Renal Services in the UK with over 2000 patients on Renal Replacement Therapy along side a very large CKD population. The new Royal London Hospital serves as the Transplant centre for several units in Essex and serves as the hub for renal services in Northeast London.
The Renal Unit at the Royal London Hospital is housed on the purposed built 9th floor of the new building which includes its own outpatients' clinic area, Renal Assessment Unit, a 70-station dialysis unit and a 62 bedded ward shared with Urology which includes a renal HDU and a Renal Surgery Bay.
The Department has an active and growing transplant program, performing around 160 Kidney transplant a year including ABO incompatible transplants. We provide vascular and peritoneal access service for a dialysis population of over 1100. Its academic profile is amongst the highest in the UK for both clinical and translational research.
Main duties of the job
This are 2 posts for Locum Consultant in renal transplant and vascular access surgery to mainly support the vascular access program. The appointees will join a team of 6 full time equivalent Transplant surgeons and 1 Associate Specialist.
The new postholder will be expected to participate in all surgical and OPD activities related to transplant surgery and vascular access surgery, furthermore they are expected to be part of the Transplant Surgery on call service at the Royal London Hospital on a 1:7 on call rota.
Applicants must have experience in Renal Transplant and Renal failure surgery and been able to show evidence of working independently during on call commitments (for example, been on a Locum Consultant post).
For further information and informal enquiries regarding the post, please contact:
Ms Cinzia Sammartino, Clinical Lead Transplantation/Consultant Transplant Surgeon Tel: 0203 594 2673, e-mail: cinzia.sammartino@nhs.net
Dr Ravindra Ralakariar, Clinical Director
Dr Raj Thuraisingham, Divisional Director
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.
Please view the attachment below.
Please be advised that the vacancy advertisement may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received. Therefore, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.
Please view the attachment below.
Please be advised that the vacancy advertisement may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received. Therefore, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Widespread broad based knowledge of all aspects of renal transplantation and vascular access surgery
Training Expected
Essential
- Experience in Renal Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery
- Experience in training undergraduates and postgraduates
Desirable
Management/Audit Experience
Essential
- Able to provide evidence of clinical audit and demonstrate understanding of impact and challenges this brings
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and awareness of current and future NHS challenges and strategy
- Ability to support team members in business planning via collaboration and discussion
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
- Experience of audit management
- Evidence of service development projects
Academic Achievements
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate personal experience of clinical research and describe and discuss findings and impact
Desirable
Research
Essential
- Experience of research, presentations to learned societies on topics related to surgery
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
Desirable
- Experience with Animal Model Accreditation for scientific procedures on animals
- Ability to supervise post graduate research
Publications
Essential
- Demonstrate number of first name publications in indexed journals, over a variety of subjects relevant to this post
Personal Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentational and verbal skills
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees
- Ability to manage time well to deliver objectives of the CAU
- Awareness of best practice through evidence based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the teamAwareness of best practice through evidence based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the team
Desirable
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
- Collegiate approach to work and colleagues
- Ability to drive change through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders
- Willingness to challenge the norm in a positive manner while building a team ethos, to deliver consistently high levels of care for patients in a productive and cost effective manner
- Actively upholds trust WeCare values
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Widespread broad based knowledge of all aspects of renal transplantation and vascular access surgery
Training Expected
Essential
- Experience in Renal Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery
- Experience in training undergraduates and postgraduates
Desirable
Management/Audit Experience
Essential
- Able to provide evidence of clinical audit and demonstrate understanding of impact and challenges this brings
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and awareness of current and future NHS challenges and strategy
- Ability to support team members in business planning via collaboration and discussion
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
- Experience of audit management
- Evidence of service development projects
Academic Achievements
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate personal experience of clinical research and describe and discuss findings and impact
Desirable
Research
Essential
- Experience of research, presentations to learned societies on topics related to surgery
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
Desirable
- Experience with Animal Model Accreditation for scientific procedures on animals
- Ability to supervise post graduate research
Publications
Essential
- Demonstrate number of first name publications in indexed journals, over a variety of subjects relevant to this post
Personal Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentational and verbal skills
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees
- Ability to manage time well to deliver objectives of the CAU
- Awareness of best practice through evidence based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the teamAwareness of best practice through evidence based medicine, and personal drive to enact the change with the team
Desirable
- Ability to motivate and develop medical trainees
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
- Collegiate approach to work and colleagues
- Ability to drive change through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders
- Willingness to challenge the norm in a positive manner while building a team ethos, to deliver consistently high levels of care for patients in a productive and cost effective manner
- Actively upholds trust WeCare values
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).
