Consultant in Renal Medicine

The Renal Department is friendly, supportive, professional and willing to invest time in supporting your own professional development by offering excellent training and educational opportunities and career support.

You will join a strong Renal Consultant team providing specialist services to the region. We treat patients from east and west Kent; with a Centre Haemodialysis Unit at Kent and Canterbury Hospital with five Satellite Units covering east and west Kent at; Margate, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and Folkstone,. In conjunction with Guy's Hospital London, we have a thriving Transplant team bring our patient back to the renal team at the earliest opportunity.

Duties will include: supporting Renal Inpatient Services; Renal On calls; new Renal Rapid Assessment 'Hot Clinics' to provide admission avoidance and early discharge to support acute front door services; outpatient management of Nephrology, Haemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis patients; teaching both within the department and the wider organisation in this is an exciting and innovative new role.

Supporting our 12 Consultant Nephrologist are: 10 Junior doctors encompass: 5 x Specialty Training Registrars; 1 x General Practitioner Trainee; 1 x IMT; 2 x FY2s and 1 x FY1. You will also be working with an incredibly robust Nursing, AHP and A&C teams. Team Working is how we assist our patients to live the 'best life possible' within the patient care and creating robust services.