Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Hepatology

Main area: Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Hepatology

Grade: ST5 - ST8

Contract: 6 months (Fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 47.75 hours per week

Job ref: 213-CAX-7309590

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Site: King's College Hospital, London

Salary: pro annum

Closing: 10/07/2025 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

The paediatric liver centre, based at King’s College Hospital, has been a supra-regional tertiary referral centre since 1986 and is the largest in the UK. It has an international reputation in research and the provision of high quality clinical care to children with acute and chronic liver diseases, metabolic liver diseases, pre and post liver transplant care, short gut syndrome, pre and post small bowel transplant care and complex hepatobiliary surgery. Ongoing research projects include autoimmune liver disease, biliary atresia, cholestatic liver diseases, hepatocyte transplantation, viral hepatitis and acute liver failure.

Activity / Workload:

• Total Inpatients Admission: 1350
• New Patients: 400
• Outpatient Follow up: 2000
• Day case admission: 750

Main duties of the job:

• To supervise Senior House Officers and to work with Specialist Registrars performing day to day care of the liver patients in Rays of Sunshine Ward, Day Case Unit and Outpatient clinics.
• To maintain high quality communication both spoken and written with patients, parents, GP’s and referring consultants.
• All aspects of documentation and care of paediatric hepatology inpatients.
• Attendance on consultant led ward rounds.
• OnCall middle grade resident rota 1 in 10.
• Assistance in conjunction with specialist registrars/consultants with the teaching of undergraduate medical students.
• Involvement in the research interests of the department and audit will be encouraged.
• Responsible for the day to day management of the junior doctors.

Clinical Training and Responsibilities:

• Advanced management of complex hepatological and gastrointestinal disorders including fulminant hepatic failure (50 referrals per year) and short bowel syndrome.
• Diagnosis and management of acute and chronic liver diseases, metabolic liver diseases and liver tumours.
• Assessment of patient for liver transplantation and small bowel transplantation.
• Pre, during and post liver and small bowel transplantation care.
• Management of post transplant immunosuppression.
• Counselling of parents of children with complex hepatic and gastrointestinal conditions.
• Follow up of children with complex liver disorders, and with chronic intestinal disorders.
• Nutritional assessment - assessment of nutritional status, dietary requirements, theory and techniques of enteral and parental nutrition support; role of nutrition support teams and special needs.
• Attain skills in co-operation with other specialists (surgery, radiology, pathology etc).
• Research and audit in the aspects of the field of hepatology, immunology and gastroenterology.
• Achieve skills in teaching undergraduates and awareness of aids to teaching.

Person specification:

• Hold a GMC registration MB BS or equivalent MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent.

• Must have minimum 2 years paediatric experience.
• Sub-speciality experience.
• PALS or APLS.

• Specified procedures as cited in the RCPCH Guidelines.
• Competent to work without direct supervision according to level of competence.
• Enthusiastic approach to learning practical procedures.

• Evidence of teaching experience.
• Understanding of clinical governance and evidence based medicine.

• Demonstrates ability to prioritise and organise self and juniors.
• Understanding of multi disciplinary nature of the paediatric hepatology service.

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