Consultant in Renal Medicine

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at UHNM to join the dynamic team of 7 Nephrology Consultants (participating on a 1:8.5 on-call rota), 2 Specialty Doctors and 12 Medics working at our main Royal Stoke Site and Satellite Units at County, and Leighton Hospitals.

Our Nephrology service provides all types of dialysis both in-centre and home, transplant, CKD, home therapies, AKI and hypertension.

The post holders will primarily lead the hypertension service and would be responsible for the development of this service. They would also contribute to the advanced kidney care service. In addition, they would be responsible for managing a cohort of haemodialysis patients at Royal Stoke hospital and will also run a weekly general nephrology clinic.

The post holder will be expected to contribute regularly to: procedures, supervision and training of the renal STs and trust grades.  As well as contributing to the education of trainees, quality improvement, research activities, and clinical governance of the service.

The UHNM renal team has a very strong clinical research programme led by International expert Professor Simon Davies and Dr Mark Lambie based within the University of Keele Institute for Science and Technology for Medicine.

Applicants require full GMC Registration and should be either on or within 6 months of entry onto the Specialist Register at the time of interview.

Main duties of the job

The Renal department consists of 1 x 28 bedded inpatient ward with 4 flexi trolleys, a satellite unit at County Hospital (12 stations) and a satellite unit at Leighton (16 stations).

The service provides both inpatient care and outpatient care at Royal Stoke and outpatient care at the satellite units to include dialysis and outpatient appointments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed job description and main responsibilities are within the attached job description attached under supporting documents.

***Please note that this advert is for 2 Consultant posts within the Nephrology team - all applications will be considered for both posts unless specified within the supporting information that interest is only for 1 post. Please refer to both Job Packs*****

AAC interview panel date: 2nd February 2026.