Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for two Senior Clinical Fellows to join the UK’s busiest Renal Transplantation Centre. We carry out almost 300 living donor and deceased donor Kidney Transplants a year and are one of the few centres who carry out simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplants.
We are looking for the successful candidates to be able to join us as soon as possible. You will be part of a team of 16 Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows working with 12 Substantive Consultant Surgeons. The Transplant team works alongside the Nephrology team and therefore will work closely with Nephrology Junior Doctors and Consultants.
Main duties of the job
The Department is one of the largest in the UK, providing kidney care to South East London, Kent and the Channel Islands. We also receive a significant number of complex referrals from a wider geographical area.
We perform almost 300 transplants each year, have the largest living kidney donor programme in the country and are a supra-regional centre for both combined kidney/pancreas and pancreas alone transplantation. We have the country’s largest antibody incompatible transplant programme. We performed the first robotic transplants in the UK and have world-class expertise in vascular access and transplant urology.
We are nationally recognised for quality of care, innovation in clinical practice and service delivery, and for our close functional and geographical integration with the research programmes of both the MRC Transplantation Centre and the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre.
About us
GSTT is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with a staff of around 13,650, a turnover of over £1.2 billion and 2 million patient contacts a year.
The Trust comprises two of London’s oldest and best known teaching hospitals. The hospitals have a long history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a reputation for excellence and innovation.
We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. Our AHSC is one of only five in the UK. It consists of King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. King’s Health Partners includes seven hospitals and it brings together the best of research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver ground breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Equality of opportunity is our Policy. The Trust provides health services to a diverse community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post will be comparable to current ST3-ST8 posts with respect to responsibilities, audit and opportunities for training. This will be adapted toyour training level.
Your rota will involve:
1) On-calls (managing the wards, emergency theatre and deceased donor transplants) alongside the on-call Consultant.
2) Elective Operating lists – this could be living donor transplants, dialysis access surgery, transplant urology procedures or hernia repairs
3) Clinics – this could be surgical assessment, post transplant follow up or pre-op assessment clinics
You will be encouraged to carry out audit and quality improvement projects as well as to join and deliver teaching sessions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post will be comparable to current ST3-ST8 posts with respect to responsibilities, audit and opportunities for training. This will be adapted toyour training level.
Your rota will involve:
1) On-calls (managing the wards, emergency theatre and deceased donor transplants) alongside the on-call Consultant.
2) Elective Operating lists – this could be living donor transplants, dialysis access surgery, transplant urology procedures or hernia repairs
3) Clinics – this could be surgical assessment, post transplant follow up or pre-op assessment clinics
You will be encouraged to carry out audit and quality improvement projects as well as to join and deliver teaching sessions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Other relevant postgraduate qualifications e.g. MRCS or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Significant (3+ years) experience of General Surgery/Urology
Desirable
- Experience of transplant, urology, vascular and/or laparoscopic surgery
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- A commitment to and evidence of multidisciplinary practice
- A team based approach to care and service management
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues; clinical and non-clinical patients and their carers/relatives
Research
Desirable
- An ability to initiative pursue and complete clinical or basic medical research
Teaching
Essential
- An ability to teach undergraduate students or other junior doctors
Desirable
- Certificate of medical education
Good Medical Practice
Essential
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical and Surgical Practice set out by the GMC
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Other relevant postgraduate qualifications e.g. MRCS or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Significant (3+ years) experience of General Surgery/Urology
Desirable
- Experience of transplant, urology, vascular and/or laparoscopic surgery
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- A commitment to and evidence of multidisciplinary practice
- A team based approach to care and service management
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues; clinical and non-clinical patients and their carers/relatives
Research
Desirable
- An ability to initiative pursue and complete clinical or basic medical research
Teaching
Essential
- An ability to teach undergraduate students or other junior doctors
Desirable
- Certificate of medical education
Good Medical Practice
Essential
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical and Surgical Practice set out by 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
