Locum Consultant Transplant Surgeon

at  Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre at the Hammersmith Hospital, which is the largest renal and transplant centre in Europe, are looking for a Locum Consultant Transplant Surgeon to join their team at the earliest. The successful candidate will join a team of six expert and dedicated transplant surgeons to support and develop the delivery of kidney and kidney/pancreas transplantation, dialysis access and associated clinical services at ICHT and regionally across North West London. This post is required to replace the vacancy created by a colleague moving on to a different job.
The position is available for six months initially, with further extension depending upon review.
The post-holder will also have responsibilities to develop and contribute to continuing education, professional development, audit and research within the Division and Trust. Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or equivalent, or within 6 months of attaining Specialist Registration at the time of interview.
The successful candidate will be based at the ICHNT Renal and Transplant Centre, at Hammersmith Hospital. The Directorate has 70 inpatient beds at the Hammersmith Hospital, across 4 renal wards, including a 12-bed HDU and a dedicated day care unit.
The successful candidate is expected to participate actively in service provision after discussion with the Clinical Director and the Head of Service in current areas of need such as living donor kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis access procedures.
Transplantation
The Directorate performs approximately 200- 240 transplants each year.
The successful candidate will have an active role in the delivery of deceased donor transplantation of kidney and kidney-pancreas transplants as part of a 1:6 non-resident on call rota, as well as in the post-transplant follow up clinics.
Dialysis access
The post holder is allocated 1 or 2 satellite dialysis units to provide regular outpatient clinics to assess patients for transplantation and dialysis access.
There is an established transplant follow up, vascular access clinics and peritoneal dialysis access clinics at the Hammersmith Hospital as well as on site surgical clinics in the satellite units aiming to assess patients for dialysis access. Our peritoneal dialysis program is one of the largest in the region, with more than 200 patients on maintenance currently with dedicated PD surgical clinic on site at the Hammersmith Hospital.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
The job plan template below is indicative, further details in the main job description.
Programmed Activities (PA’s): 10 PA contract
This includes 8.5 DCC and 1.5 SPA (which includes 1.0 SPA for appraisal and revalidation)
Total Clinical Workload (8. 5 DCCs)
On Call (1 in 6) Intensity level A
Agreed duties of On Call surgeon
1. Post op transplant and surgical review on WR
2. Review of any emergency presentation that requires surgical review
3. Telephone calls for all transplant offers – first call.
4. Any emergency operation that is required
5. All non-elective transplant surgery
6. Cancellation of all routine clinics during on call week to allow sufficient time to deliver elective lists and on call work as described above.
7. Day off after overnight on call
Outpatient Clinics
1. Transplant follow up
2. Outreach Transplant work-up and dialysis access (satellite clinic)
3. Onsite vascular access
4. Transplant general surgery clinic; pancreas transplant workup clinic Optional
(subject to discussion with Clinical Director / Head of Service)
Elective Operating lists (subject to job plan review, see job description for details)
1. Local anaesthetic vascular access
2. General anaesthetic list

Please refer the Job description for details