Associate Professor (Clinical) in Nephrology/Honorary Consultant

About the role

We are looking to appoint a high calibre clinician/scientist as an Associate Professor (Clinical) in Nephrology/Honorary Consultant to join the SAPPHIRE research group https://le.ac.uk/sapphire within the Department of Population Health Sciences. You will be expected to be a significant research income generator supervising a team of clinical and non-clinical postgraduate and undergraduate researchers. Alongside this, you will provide a leadership role in line with the College’s learning, teaching and research strategies.

50% of your time will be spent as part of the Nephrology team at the University Hospitals of Leicester, where you will contribute to direct clinical service delivery, teaching, governance and service development. You will play a prominent role in shaping and developing the future of these services.

About you

Alongside your relevant higher degree (MD/PhD), you will hold an MB BS or equivalent, a full GMC Registration (or eligible), MRCP (or equivalent) as well as a current Licence to practice (or eligible). You will be fully accredited for Higher Specialist Training, or will be eligble for inclusion on the Special Register for Nephrology within 6 months of the interview date.

You will have specialist interest in chronic kidney disease, risk prediction models and implementation of novel approaches to chronic disease care and an established track record of clinically relevant research that are internationally recognized and world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.

Further Information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to either University - Prof Elizabeth Draper, msn@le.ac.uk or UHL - Dr Jorge Jesus-Silva Jorge (Head of Service), jorge.jesus-silva@uhl-tr.nhs.uk.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 because the appointee will have substantial access to young people and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, an appointment to this post will be subject to checking and appropriate clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The successful applicant for this post will, therefore, be required to give consent for the University to check with the DBS for the existence and content of any criminal record in the form of an Enhanced with adult/child workforce and adult/child barred list Disclosure. Information received from the DBS and the police will be kept in strict confidence and will be destroyed once the University is satisfied in this regard. 

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