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Job summary

Main area
Urology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
1 year (Fixed Term)
Hours
10 sessions per week (Full Time 10 PAs)
Job ref
343-LCON-186
Employer
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust
Town
Carshalton & Epsom
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 PA+LDW
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Locum Consultant Urologist

Consultant


"At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect.  We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork.  This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work.  When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values" 


 

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect.  We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork.  This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work.  When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values

Job overview

Department of Urology

Locum Consultant Urologist - all subspeciality interests will be considered

Fixed Term: 1 Year

 

Main duties of the job

Applications are invited for a full time Locum Consultant Urologist within the Surgery Division. The successful post holder will be expected to provide a comprehensive service across both sites at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust working on 10 programmed activities (PA’s) and an emergency on call commitment, 1:9. 

The Urology Department provides a comprehensive general urology service covering all the main sub specialties. There are close links with the Royal Marsden Hospital and St George’s hospital for oncology and more complex urological conditions. The department is well supported by an interventional radiology department. The Urology department supports the Renal unit at St Helier. There is an onsite lithotripter and the department offers a regional acute and elective lithotripsy service.

Specialist nursing staff attached to the department include 2 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, four urology nurse specialist in benign urology and six in cancer

You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold Licence to Practice and ideally be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.

Applicants are invited to visit the department beforehand.

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust offers an extensive range of services, including cancer,pathology,surgery, and gynaecology to over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. We operate two busy general hospitals,Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including Sutton Hospital.

St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have Accident and Emergency departments (A&E)and Maternity services (Obstetrics).

The Trust also plays an active role in the local healthcare economy. Surrey Downs Health and Care brings together our staff, CSH and the GP groups in Surrey Downs, and Surrey County Council in a partnership to improve care for local people.

"As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19."

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  1. To, at all times, comply with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time.
  2. To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
  3. To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
  4. To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Medical Director.
  5. On commencement to ensure personal attendance at the Trust’s corporate Induction (or arranged Consultant Induction).
  6. To participate in the Trust’s Statutory & Mandatory training programme.
  7. To be responsible for the clinical management of out-patients under your care.
  8. The principal duty of this post is to provide a comprehensive clinical service to patients.

Person specification

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Put the patient first by being happy, helpful, caring, respectful and patient
  • Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence
  • Work as one team – communicate, collaborate and share
  • Respect each other by being polite, pleasant and listening

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Hold a medical qualification or qualification registered with the GMC
  • Entry onto the Specialist Register for GMC or be within six months of obtaining CCT/CESR
  • Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e. MRCS
Desirable criteria
  • MD or equivalent higher degree or evidence of relevant research
  • ATLS provider/instructor status

Clinical, Management & Adminis

Essential criteria
  • High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Urology
  • Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota for Urology
  • Audit/Research experience
  • Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT/CESR
  • Supervision of postgraduate trainees
  • Personal time management skills
  • Clinical governance
  • Ability to organise inpatient and outpatient waiting lists
Desirable criteria
  • Proven track record in Urology
  • A subspeciality interest
  • Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development

Teaching and Research Experien

Essential criteria
  • Experience of teaching undergraduate and post graduate trainees
  • Ability to teach clinical skills
  • Ability to contribute to change management
  • Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
  • Ability to critically review research
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates/postgraduates
  • Experience of supervising junior doctors
  • Experience of teaching lay groups and other staff groups
  • Ability to supervise postgraduate research
  • Publications in peer review journals

Language

Essential criteria
  • Demonstratable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to work in partnership to deliver a patient centred service
  • Commitment to continuing professional development
  • Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Enquiring, critical approach to work
  • Ability to communicate with patients and relatives
  • Able to make own arrangements for travel between working sites

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardTrust IDNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingNational Preceptorship Quality MarkDisability Advice Line

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tharani Nitkunan
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07930555212
Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:
Tharani Nitkunan, Clinical Lead for Urology.
[email protected]

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