This is a full time Locum Consultant Nephrologist post for 12 months. Renal is a tertiary service covering Lancashire & South Cumbria. The post is based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (LTH) and will support patients in East Lancashire at our renal centres in Blackburn and Burnley as well as supporting in-reach into Royal Blackburn hospital.
The successful candidate will be expected to share leadership for the Laurie Solomon Renal Centre in Blackburn alongside caring for their own named cohort of general nephrology patients (whilst supporting kidney transplant recipient work—up and acute post-transplant patients). The successful candidate will also provide in-reach into Royal Blackburn Hospital to support in-patients requiring renal care.
There is a Full job plan available to review in the pack, however the main duties will include you working on the following:
- Acute post-transplant clinic
- General Nephrology clinic at John Sagar Renal Centre Burnley
- Dialysis Clinic at Laurie Solomon Renal Centre Blackburn
- In-reach into Royal Blackburn Hospital (ward referrals)
- Transplant work-up clinic
- Dialysis MDT
- On call 1:11
You would join an excellent, friendly and compassionate large Renal service that covers 1.8 million people, looking after over 1300 dialysis and transplant patients across a large geographical area including 4 trusts and 6 satellite dialysis units in addition to our main hub unit at Royal Preston Hospital. Our regional services are in the middle of significant improvements with new facilities being opened since July 2021 (Furness) and the final renal centre (Blackburn) opened in July 2022. These new renal centres offer renal outpatient clinic facilities, on-site phlebotomy in addition to regular dialysis stations and self-care areas.
Our Consultant team is divided into regional teams (West Lancashire, East Lancashire plus North Lancashire and South Cumbria as outlined below) to provide care across our service in addition to Central Lancashire. We currently have 17 consultants. We have a variety of specialist interests that enhance the delivery of our tertiary services.
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025