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Job summary

Main area
Urology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus on-call supplement)
Job ref
151-FPHCON-18
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Frimley Park Hospital
Town
Frimley
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
01/08/2024

Employer heading

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Urological Surgeon

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

We welcome applications for a Consultant Urological Surgeon to join a rapidly expanding, busy and innovative team of Consultants. As a department we have clear goals to increase our profile in Clinical and Academic Urology. The appointment of this Consultant post would supplement the workload of existing Consultants across the breadth of the specialty, including Core Urology delivered through a high-volume District General HospitalParticular service priorities are endourology/stone surgery and paediatrics. 

Applicants are required to be on the general GMC Register and either on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview. 

Main duties of the job

The post offered is for a Consultant Urological Surgeon with 10 programmed activities. These sessions will be wherever the Trust delivers its services, but the majority of the work will be at Frimley Park Hospital. With an increased demand to create structures of urinary tract stone service as outlined by GIRFT.  The successful applicants will be expected to work with other subspecialists across the Trust to deliver such a service and in a similar way, support the paediatric urology service. 

Start Date: For the new post, it is anticipated that the successful applicant will take up the post in or around October 2024. 

Working for our organisation

The Department of Urology has grown rapidly in the last few years and is a member of the Surgical Directorate, well known in the region for providing excellent patient care as well as exceptional training for the specialist registrars and junior doctors The Department of Urology enjoys close links with The Royal Surrey County Hospital (RSCH), with a weekly joint Specialist MDT for prostatic, bladder, testicular and penile cancersThere is a Specialist Renal Cancer MDT hosted at Frimley Park Hospital and a biweekly remotely accessed cross site stone MDT. 

At the brand new, state-of-the-art, Heatherwood hospital in Ascot, we have a dedicated Urology Investigation Unit incorporating sub-speciality clinics, an investigation unit and our five day a week lithotripsy service. Other services provided include flexible cystoscopy, urodynamics, Precision Point prostate biopsies, TULA, PTNS, intradetrusor BOTOX and a tertiary referral service of SYNERGO hyperthermia treatment for bladder cancer.   

At present all urology day case and in-patient surgery takes place at Frimley Park Hospital supported by a clinically responsive ITU/HDU team. Additional day case operating lists are soon to start on the Heatherwood site we hope. The Radiology department provides excellent support and its facilities are in the process of being extended and refurbished. There is seven days a week IR support. 

For more details please see the attached job description. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note that any provisional timetable will be flexible, and the post holder will be expected to see new patients and operate on patients from the waiting list. Sessions will be a mixture of fixed and flexible and may require you to work on a Saturday. 

The post holder will be expected to see new patients and follow up outpatients whilst maintaining expecting new to follow up ratios, they will be expected to operate on patients from their own and a pooled waiting list and may be required to work at any facility that the Trust owns, leases or manages.  

 

The appointee will have access to clinical administrative support and office facilities. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • FRCS or equivalent
  • Possession of CCST or within six months of receipt at the date of interview or equivalent
  • Entry on Specialist Register
  • Evidence of Research Activity or Higher Degree
  • Full GMC registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • A wide grounding during training of all aspects of Emergency and elective surgery within the speciality of Urology
  • Clinical skills to support cancer diagnostics
  • Understand principles and participated in audit activity
  • Understand the principles of Clinical Governance and demonstrate experience of evidence based practice
  • Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
  • Ability to demonstrate team working
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates and operative skills to trainee specialists
  • Undertaken research with published papers in refereed journals
  • Ability to demonstrate and participate in the management of change and service development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

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
Mr Neil Barber
Job title
Clinical Lead for Urology
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 6134590
Additional information
  1.  Mr David Gerrard -  Chief of Service Surgery & Urology                                                                       
  2.  Ms Julie West  -  Associate Director Surgery & Urology                        
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