Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology

Job Description

Required to fill this replacement post within the Paediatric Nephrology Department at the Leeds General Infirmary.

The Leeds Paediatric Renal service provides regional specialist kidney care for children across East Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and the Humber. This service is one of 13 designated services for paediatric nephrology in the UK and one of 10 providing a fully comprehensive service including transplantation.

There is an established regional network that includes educational activities including the annual regional network study day to provide educational updates and training educational study day and provision of regional guidelines alongside a network of outreach clinics at 11 other hospitals across the region. Thus, providing shared care for patients and in-line with the principle of providing equity of access to quality care as close to home as possible for a population of children with complex and/or chronic disease (NHS Kidney Care-supported Improving the standard of care of children with kidney disease through paediatric nephrology networks, RCPCH 2011).

The services at Leeds Children’s Hospital are based in the renal unit, inpatient bed base on L50 and adjacent haemodialysis unit. This is a shared ward with paediatric hepatology and includes a shared 13 bed base including 8 cubicles (2 with the capacity for haemodialysis). Patients are also routinely care of cared for on the High Dependency unit and in Paediatric intensive care post renal transplant.

Children will need to come to Leeds for specialised treatments or procedures which include renal transplantation, acute kidney injury requiring dialysis, insertion of long-term dialysis access and problems relating to long-term dialysis, renal biopsy, specialist imaging, renovascular angiography and treatment and children with complex nephro-urological conditions.

This is in addition to the large cohort of children with chronic kidney disease require the input of a large multi-disciplinary team.

Prospective Applicants Are Encouraged To Contact

Pallavi Yadav - p.yadav@nhs.net

INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD: 30th December 2026

The successful applicant should possess MRCPCH (or equivalent) and should be included on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview, if currently within a training programme within the UK. In accordance with the consultant appointment regulations, all other categories of doctors must be on the Specialist Register.

Applicants should have established skills in all aspects of Paediatric Nephrology and its related specialties. A strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and a research interest is desirable.

Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share.

If shortlisted, you will be required to give a 10-minute presentation:

“What is your vision for Paediatric Nephrology Services in Leeds over the next 5 years”

Leeds Children’s Hospital is one of seven hospitals that as part of Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust. The Leeds Children’s Hospital is one of the UK’s largest children’s hospitals with state-of-the-art treatments and facilities.

It provides one of the most comprehensive ranges of specialist children’s hospital services in the country including nephrology, medicine, surgery, gastroenterology, hepatobiliary, respiratory medicine, cystic fibrosis, neurosciences, haematology, oncology, paediatric critical care, neonatal services, rheumatology, allergy, immunology, endocrine and diabetes.

The Children’s hospital provides services for the children of Leeds across the region of Yorkshire and Humber and further afield.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

• The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
• We are….
• Responsible
• Open and Honest
• One Team
• Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our Priorities

• People
• Improvement and Innovation
• Partnerships
• Outcomes
• Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.