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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for nephrology consultants who have a specialist interest in transplantation to join our department. We are advertising 2 Locum Consultant Transplant Nephrology posts to support the current team and contribute to the expansion of Cardiff Transplant Unit.
The Nephrology and Transplant Directorate serves a population of approximately 1.4 million people in South East Wales, providing a complete range of diagnostic and therapeutic services including dialysis and transplantation.
The Transplant Unit at UHW is a leader in the field, performing approximately 120 adult transplants per year. This includes compatible and blood group and HLA incompatible living donors (approximately 50 per year), deceased donors (donation after brainstem death (DBD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD), approximately 60-80 per year), and Pancreas transplants (approximately 8-15 per year). The unit has a stand-alone multi-organ retrieval team and is part of National Organ Retrieval Services (NORS) providing abdominal retrieval services nationally and Normothermic Organ Perfusion (one of the 3 units recognised for the current provision of Normothermic perfusion).
The unit has one of the largest experiences in the country in ABOi and HLAi transplants in close collaboration with the Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Laboratory of South Wales with excellent results.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with Consultant colleagues as well as a broad multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality nephrology and transplant services to our patients.
The post holder will work with a team of 4 Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physicians and 9 Consultant Transplant Surgeons to deliver kidney and pancreas transplant services to the 1.5 million population of South and Mid Wales and pancreas transplant for Shrewsbury.
The successful candidate will also provide outpatient care in a general nephrology clinic and to a cohort of dialysis patients.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is recognised as a teaching centre of excellence in a wide range of clinical services.
Although this post is full-time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements.
Applicants should either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within three months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT / CESR(CP) at the time of interview.
You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of effective team and multi-disciplinary working
- Effective and demonstrable communication skills
Research
Essential
- Ability to critically appraise research
- Evidence of active research interests
Teaching
Essential
- Evidence of teaching medical students and junior doctors
Experience
Essential
- Broad training in Renal Medicine
- Experience of sub-specialty training in transplantation in an acute transplanting unit
Desirable
- Fellowship / Post-CCT fellowship in Transplantation
- Experience of pancreas transplantation
- Experience of living donor assessments
- Transplant Immunology experience
Management
Essential
- Evidence of effective leadership skills
Qualifications
Essential
- On GMC Specialist Register for Renal Medicine / Specialty Registrar with CCT / CESR (Combined Programme) due within 3 months of interview date
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent
Desirable
- Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD
Clinical Governance
Essential
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
- Evidence of proactive engagement with appraisal and revalidation (or equivalent)
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This advert is for Locum Consultant in Transplant Nephrology with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Nephrology role. The advertised salary is £125,509 per annum. The contract type is Locum: 12 months. The application deadline is 19 Jul 2026.
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