# Consultant in Nephrology and General Medicine - 10PA's > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-nephrology-and-general-medicine-10pas/2ae54cbb-f50c-4624-86fa-008925df3e84 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-nephrology-and-general-medicine-10pas/2ae54cbb-f50c-4624-86fa-008925df3e84.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** West Suffolk Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Nephrology - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 Pro Rata Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 10 sessions per week (Requires participation in Physician on-call rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T08:01:38.707Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Suffolk/Bury_St_Edmunds/West_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nephrology_General_Medicine/Nephrology_General_Medicine-v8308578 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8308578?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wsh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A new opportunity has risen to join our team for the post of Consultant in Nephrology and General Medicine. This post will be based in West Suffolk Hospital which covers a 33 bedded ward. The post involves out-patient and in-patient duties and regular commitment to both in-reach into the medical admissions unit and on-call for general medicine. The West Suffolk Nephrology team is currently looking for a consultant Nephrologist to complement the current team to enhance the current service, as we look forward towards the new hospital build. The applicant would be looking after patients on the Nephrology ward which is currently shared by 3 existing consultants . We would hope that the applicant would be able to continue the practical skills of renal biopsy at inpatient level. Please See Full Job Description attached for details Interviews to be held on Monday, 30th November 2026 ### Main duties of the job - To join 3 existing consultants in managing Renal Services at West Suffolk Hospital. - Provide advice and day to day management of medical inpatients with renal disease. - Provision of outpatient services in renal medicine at West Suffolk Hospital. - To take part in the physicians on call rota at West Suffolk Hospital and to manage medical inpatients on F8/associated outlying wards. - Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of all in-patients and out-patient under the care of your team. - Teaching and training of intermediate, junior staff, nursing staff and medical students. - To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit. - To fulfil obligations relating to continuing medical education and professional development, appraisal and revalidation. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This is substantive post based at West Suffolk Hospital but with clinical links to Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The post is funded for 10 PAs. The post-holder will join 3 consultant colleagues (Dr James and Dr Petchey) on F9 and Dr Chong ( Acute Medicine/Nephrology) in the Nephrology Department. The appointee will continue current nephrology services including weekly general nephrology clinics. The appointee is expected provide a high standard of care to renal patients and a consultant opinion on any patient referred to nephrology services. In addition, the candidate will be expected to share supervision and support of the renal nurse specialist with the existing nephrologists. The weekday working pattern starts at 08:30hrs until 17.00hrs Monday to Fridays. There are protected shifts for administration and SPA time (1.5PAs). All medical staff are now ward based, and the appointee will conduct regular ward rounds including board rounds as agreed on the Job Plan. There are seven doctors in training based on the ward, including one SpR in General Medicine & Rheumatology, two IMT3, 1 CMT one FY2, one STGP trainee and two FY1s. The appointee will be responsible for emergency care ward rounds when on call. The division of medicine operate a physician of the day service, with the on-call physician starting the ward round on the following morning. The on-call physician’s clinics are reduced /cancelled on the following morning. The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Appraisal **Essential** - To have training and experience in appraisal systems ### Standards **Essential** - To have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of “Good Medical Practice” from the GMC ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Medicine - Experience in management of acute medical inpatients and medical outpatients. - Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients. - Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Nephrology - Experience in management of Nephrology inpatient and out-patient medicine. - Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Renal patients including patients with suspected or proven vasculitis. **Desirable** - Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent. - Experience of managing vasculitis inpatients and clinics in Tertiary centre, dedicated Fellowship programme, or similar ### Special Aptitudes **Essential** - Self-motivated: able to act on own initiative - Passionate and dynamism to improve, monitor and sustain the highest achievable clinical standards. - To possess an enquiring mind, generally challenging the status quo to ensure clinically effective evidence-based best practice. - Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team. - To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience. ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Depth and breadth of experience in acute ward based and out-patient medicine and Nephrology - - All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: - PLAB 1 - PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they will need to provide evidence. ### Clinical Governance **Essential** - To have a broad understanding of all elements of, and a commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance ### Teaching and Training **Essential** - Experience of supervising FY1s, FY2s StRs and SpRs - Ability to teach clinical skills. **Desirable** - Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates - Experience of teaching other professional groups - Ability to supervise postgraduate research. ### Research & Publications **Essential** - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems. - Publications in peer reviewed journals **Desirable** - Experience of conducting research projects - Publications in peer reviewed journals ### Management & Audit Training **Essential** - Ability to develop and manage a multi-professional vasculitis service encompassing inpatient reviews and outpatient clinics. - Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities. - Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery. - Experience of audit management - Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets. ### Personal Skills & Qualities **Essential** - Good personal interactive communications skills: clarity of expression and purpose - The ability to work as a team member. - Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good - Enquiring, critical approach to work - Caring attitude to patients - Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies. - Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance **Desirable** - Ability to travel to all rural locations. ### Education, Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Entry on the GMC specialist register in Nephrology and General (Internal) Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) at the time of interview. - MRCP or equivalent - Full GMC registration **Desirable** - MD or PhD - MRCP (Nephrology) ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 536.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10674812) - [person specification (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10628646) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.