Locum Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology

Job overview

This is 2  full time 10 PA locum post for 12 months initially, to support service delivery, working with seven other paediatric Nephrology Consultants, providing a comprehensive nephrology service to the West Midlands.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will share in the provision of a regional service including: regular responsibility for emergency admissions, ward consultations, telephone advice, booked admissions for investigations and day cases. These responsibilities occur during the week on-call (approx. 1:6 or about 8½ weeks in a year). During the on-call week the on-call consultant has no regular clinic commitments so will undertake business ward rounds every day. The on-call service is purely for nephrology and the service covers nephrology for the whole of the West Midlands, as above. The post holder will be asked to undertake regular outreach clinics in consultation with the team, not more frequently than 1per month.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

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