Consultant Hepatologist inHampstead inHampstead PUBLISHED
FRI 8 NOV 2024
The Royal Free Hospital is recognized as a leading tertiary referral center for hepatology and liver transplants, offering a wide range of sub-specialty clinics and engaging in multidisciplinary collaboration. Candidates are encouraged to bring additional subspecialist interests, and one position specifically emphasises undergraduate teaching experience. The unit also values research, welcoming those with a proven track record or interest in clinical and basic research, fostering collaborative efforts between clinical practice and academia at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health.
Applications are invited for three Consultant Hepatologists at the Royal Free Hospital, London. These new consultant posts are to substantiate 3 existing locum consultant posts.
The primary role for the appointees will be to contribute to the provision of inpatient and outpatient hepatology services at the Royal Free Hampstead Site, and to outpatient hepatology clinics at Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital. Experience in managing patients with decompensated cirrhosis and portal hypertension is essential. Appointees will participate in hepatology on call rota and GI bleed on call rota.
The Royal Free Hospital is a tertiary hepatology referral centre and liver transplant centre serving a wide geographical area, and provides secondary hepatology services to the local population. The Unit has an international reputation for management of cirrhosis complications, including portal hypertension, and is a high volume TIPS centre. Liver transplant activity has increased steadily reaching over 140 liver transplants in 2. The unit has been a leader in promoting supportive and palliative care for patients with cirrhosis.
One post will have additional responsibility for undergraduate teaching and experience in medical education is essential. The appointees will contribute to undergraduate teaching and postgraduate medical and multidisciplinary education. Additional sub-specialist interests are desirable and can be negotiated according to the experience of the appointee and needs of the department.
We welcome applicants with a subspecialist interest complementary to existing themes. Within the department there are a number of sub-specialist and multidisciplinary clinics, for example, a joint Hepatology, Surgery and Oncology clinic for the multi-disciplinary management of patients with HCC, vascular liver diseases, MASLD, pancreaticobiliary medicine, alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency, polycystic disease, autoimmune liver diseases and viral hepatitis. There are weekly MDTs in transplantation, viral hepatology and hepatobiliary malignancies, benign HPB disease, supportive & palliative care, hepatology radiology and pathology meetings.
The Unit has an excellent reputation for clinical research and it is highly desirable for the appointees to have interest and experience in basic or clinical research, including successful completion of a research degree. There is a commitment to collaborative working between clinical and academic medicine integrating with the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health. An interest in research will be encouraged.
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