Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Nephrology

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated trainee paediatrician (ST4 or above) with an interest in Nephrology to join Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as a Nephrology Fellow for Leeds Childrens Hospital (LCH).

Thedoctor in training would gain experience in in all areas of the Paediatric Nephrology Speciality Curriculum including management of Acute Kidney Injury(peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis & continuous Ven venoushaemodialysis/filtration) and chronic kidney disease (pre-dialysis, peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis & transplantation ~ 12 paediatric transplants/yr).General paediatric renal services include the investigation and management of children with:
Nephrotic/ Nephritic syndrome; urinary tract infection and congenital anomalies of the urinary tract; renovascular disease / hypertension;renal tubular & metabolic disorders & renal stone disease. The doctorin training would also be able to participate in the transition service toadult care and attend outreach clinics covering 10 hospitals in Yorkshire.

There are: weekly Clinical Grand Rounds plus weekly psychosocial and radiology meetings with monthly transplant listing, guidelines, governance & business meetings and histopathology meetings every 2 months. There are 4 outpatient clinics/week covering renal transplantation, chronic renal failure, general and specialist nephrology. There are monthly nephrology clinics and specialist joint clinics including rheumatology, neurology.

Delivering on call commitment in general paediatrics

Thereis an active teaching programme with a weekly ward-based teaching sessions,monthly evidence-based teaching sessions and a weekly postgraduate paediatric meeting. As a centre we also provide opportunities to train to perform renal biopsies.

Leeds Childrens Hospital has an annual budget of £103 million, inpatient bed base of286 beds, and delivers 102,000 outpatient appointments and 20,000 inpatient andday case episodes. The majority of this activity is on the Leeds General Infirmary site, however there is a Neonatal unit based on the St James Hospital site.

Aswell as general paediatric medicine, LCH provides subspeciality care (oncology,hepatology and cardiology among others), neonatology and general/specialist paediatric surgery.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' membersof our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our processof redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. Assuch, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the rightto close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact ifyou have any questions.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated trainee paediatrician (ST4 or above) with an interest in to join Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as one of two Paediatric Simulation Fellows for Leeds Childrens Hospital (LCH).

Thedoctor in training would gain experience in in all areas of the Paediatric Nephrology Speciality Curriculum including management of Acute Kidney Injury(peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis & continuous Ven venoushaemodialysis/filtration) and chronic kidney disease (pre-dialysis, peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis & transplantation ~ 12 paediatric transplants/yr).General paediatric renal services include the investigation and management of children with:
Nephrotic/ Nephritic syndrome; urinary tract infection and congenital anomalies of the urinary tract; renovascular disease / hypertension;renal tubular & metabolic disorders & renal stone disease. The doctorin training would also be able to…