Job summary
- Main area
- Transplantation
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (10 PA job plan)
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7157673-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Headington
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Transplantation, Dialysis Access and Organ Retrieval
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
A post as a consultant in Transplantation, Dialysis Access and Organ Retrieval is available now at the Churchill Hospital.
The appointment is on a whole-time/part-time basis, but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Consultant Surgeons Mr Sanjay Sinha, Clinical Director Renal Transplant Urology and Mr Srikanth Reddy, Clinical Lead in Transplantation, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (Tel: Oxford (01865) 223872), or Miss Bryony Lennon, Directorate Manager for Renal Medicine, Transplant and Urology: [email protected]
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
Main duties of the job
The post holder’s duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital, but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust. The post will also include involvement in the provision of transplant services in satellite outpatient and inpatient services in other hospitals as part of transplant services, and participation in organ retrieval from other donor hospitals as part of the Oxford-based multi-organ retrieval service for transplantation. The post holder will be expected to play a significant role in the establishment of Normothermic Regional perfusion in Organ retrievals and the establishment of NHS Blood and Transplant organ Assessment and Reconditioning units. This may entail a degree of off-site working.
Oxford is a partner in the Coventry-Oxford Transplant Network (COxNet), and the post-holder may be required to support the provision of clinical services at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwick (UHCW) as part of this collaboration (where there is an independent consultant on-call). Off-site elective surgery is carried out as day case procedures. The post holder will take a full and equitable share in the out-of-working-hours Transplantation commitments, including weekends (on a 1:9 basis), including organ implantation and retrieval.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder’s duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations, undertake organ retrievals in other hospitals, and be able to provide peripheral clinics/operating in other hospitals including Royal Free, Bristol, Gloucester, Leicester, London, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Reading.
Please refer to the detailed job description and person specification which includes an indicative job plan.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- FRCS or Equivalent
- Competence in kidney & Pancreas transplantation, multi-organ retrievals including intestinal retrievals. Competence in Vascular/dialysis access surgery
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- Experience in Normothermic Regional Perfusion of donors.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Competence in kidney & Pancreas transplantation, multi-organ retrievals including intestinal retrievals.
- Competence in Vascular/dialysis access surgery
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Normothermic Regional Perfusion of donors.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification.
- Education qualification
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full registration and licence to practise
- Transport - Driver
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
- Bryony Lennon
- Job title
- Directorate Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 227107
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