Consultant Nephrologist

We are delighted to invite applications for 1 full time New Consultant colleague to join our team. LTH is the specialised commissioned service for Lancashire & South Cumbria to provide Renal service, which includes the Fylde coast.

The role is a new position to help meet our rising demand for General Nephrology, Glomerulonephritis and post-kidney transplant patient care at our new Bob Coward Renal Centre located s is a substantive full-time Consultant Nephrologist post to address the needs of the population of the Fylde coast.

They will conduct the majority of their DCC out of the newly commissioned renal centre, however through advance agreement with the Clinical Director, there may be opportunities to negotiate a change in job plan to include on-calls, procedures and/or clinic activities at Royal Preston Hospital

General Nephrology, Glomerulonephritis and post-transplant clinics will be Bob Coward Renal Centre, Blackpool (face-to-face and virtual). In-patient bedside reviews may be required for Blackpool inpatients and reviewing referrals on Patient Pass. There is time allocated in the job plan to reflect this commitment.

The successful candidate will join a highly successful recipient transplant work-up program which has resulted in a growing population of post-transplant patients requiring care closer to home. This clinic will support the transplant clinic at Royal Preston Hospital which is set-up to repatriate recently transplanted patients from Manchester Royal Infirmary typically 6-8 weeks after transplant by freeing up capacity and following-up patients at their local centre.

The successful candidate will be responsible for setting-up a new Glomerulonephritis clinic at the Bob Coward Renal Centre to look after patients in the Fylde coast area. At present, the service only exist at RPH and is oversubscribed.

You would join an excellent, friendly and compassionate large Renal service that covers 1.6 million people, looking after over 1400 dialysis and transplant patients across a large geographical area including 4 trusts and 6 satellite renal centres in addition to our main hub unit at Royal Preston Hospital. Our newly refurbished renal satellite centres offer renal outpatient clinic facilities, on-site phlebotomy in addition to regular dialysis stations and self-care areas.

The Bob Coward Renal Centre is scheduled to be operations from September 2026 and beyond caring for dialysis patients, our existing and new clinic will operate out of this new state of the art facility.

We have an award winning successful live and deceased donor transplant programme and a well-established home dialysis team, offering Peritoneal Dialysis and Home Haemodialysis training at our facility in Chorley Hospital and now Kendal. We have an expanding research portfolio recruiting to national and international trials and undertaking original research within the NIHR badged on-site Lancashire Clinical Research Facility.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Dr. Beng So

Job title:

Clinical Director and Consultant Nephrologist Email address:

Informal enquiries and requests to visit the Hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Mr. Steve Canty, Medical Director and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692