# Locum Consultant in Transplant Nephrology > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-transplant-nephrology/564ab1c5-9c2f-488c-8148-a73195b70198 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-transplant-nephrology/564ab1c5-9c2f-488c-8148-a73195b70198.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - **Town:** Cardiff - **Region:** Cardiff - **Country:** Wales - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Nephrology - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £125,509 per annum - **Contract type:** Locum: 12 months - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T10:43:23.587Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cardiff/Cardiff/Cardiff_Vale_University_Health_Board/Transplant_Nephrology/Transplant_Nephrology-v8060723 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8060723?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://cavuhb.nhs.wales ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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) ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 363.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10350986) - [data protection privacy notice (m&d) (pdf, 423.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1407) - [guidance for applicants - medical & dental (pdf, 288.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1092) - [croeso i fwrdd iechyd prifysgol caerdydd a’r fro (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2422) - [functional requirement form transplant nephrology (pdf, 720.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427230) - [welcome to cardiff and vale university health board (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2421) - [shaping our future wellbeing strategy 2023-35 (welsh) (pdf, 6.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2176) - [shaping our future wellbeing strategy 2023-35 (english) (pdf, 7.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1094) - [important information - medical & dental consultant applicants (pdf, 117.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1721) ## 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.