Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-M&D-7558238
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/06/2026
Employer heading
Consultant Nephrologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The Consultant Nephrologist will provide comprehensive renal care across the East and North Hertfordshire Renal Service, based at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. Key responsibilities include inpatient nephrology and outlier cover at the Lister, general nephrology in-reach at Luton, and participation in the weekday and weekend on-call rota. The postholder will oversee haemodialysis services at the Chiltern Kidney Centre, contribute to the Hospital-at-Home/AKI service, and deliver outpatient care in transplant and general nephrology clinics (including telemedicine). Additional duties include participation in multidisciplinary and clinical governance meetings, service development, and leadership in quality and clinical governance, with 2.0 SPAs allocated—0.5 PA dedicated to the Trust Clinical Governance Lead role.
Main duties of the job
Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
Working within the multidisciplinary service
Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
Broad Nephrology and Transplant Clinical Work
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Y Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
- College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level
- Advanced Life Support or demonstration of ability to achieve ALS immediately upon appointment
- Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate degree (or equivalent)
- Dual accreditation in renal and GIM medicine
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience in renal medicine, in particular experience of post-transplantation, dialysis, vascular access, experience in management of patients in ICU and HDU and fully competent in tunneled line insertions, native renal biopsies, and transplant renal biopsies.
- Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Andrew Findlay
- Job title
- Clinical Director and Consultant Nephrologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 314333
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