Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust • London N18 1QX
About this role
Consultant Nephrologist
This is a 9 PA post for a Consultant Nephrologist.
The post will support the existing innovative clinical and academic programme in chronic kidney disease, community-based kidney care across the North Central London sector.
The postholder will provide a 10-week general medicine ward cover commitment, diagnostic clinic, inpatient Renal reviews and out of hours work at North Middlesex with a specialist clinic at Tottenham Hale site. In addition, the post includes virtual CKD, Renal diabetes MDT, teaching and full participation in the educational and CPD activities of the department. Educational supervision of resident doctors can be negotiated with appropriate accreditation in place.
This post is shared jointly with the North Middlesex and Royal Free Health Units (7PAs North Middlesex and 2 Royal Free Hospital (Tottenham Hale site).
There is a weekly Radiology meeting to review inpatient and outpatient imaging and a fortnightly ward discharge clinic delivered by the Renal SpRs and supervised by the ward consultant.
Additional North Middlesex duties consist of a Renal diagnostic clinic (30 per year) plus 2 hours of administrative time for email queries and clinic correspondence. The clinic does not run when covering the wards.
A weekly Virtual CKD clinic via the NCL portal (established in January 2024) including advice and guidance, virtual case review using EMIS portal and triage to secondary care
clinics across the sector.
For full description of main duties and Job please refer to the Job description attached to this vacancy.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across 4 main sites and many peripheral local units, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200 000 patients in emergency department and deliver 8 000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale, and influence offer you unrivaled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your life style. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow the link
https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk
Royal Free to be your best
A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their clinical manager in line with the Job Planning Guidelines in force in the Trust. Once agreed with the clinical manager, job plans are finally signed off by the Clinical Director. An indicative job plan for this post with indicative Programmed Activities (PAs) is provided below, but this will normally be re-assessed after 3 months of appointment to ensure it meets the needs of the service.
An indicative job plan is included in the Job Description attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026