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Job summary

Main area
Urology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
164-6159881
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
City Hospital
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Consultant General Urologist with an Interest in Stone Disease

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team of friendly, supportive urology consultants. The successful candidate will join an established comprehensive urology service. There will be a significant general urology component to the workload. This service receives referrals from the wider Nottinghamshire area and tertiary referrals from further afield and may require cross site working patterns including Sherwood Forest Hospitals. There is a well-established general urology service including day case ureteroscopy, TURBT and TURP. We have an on-site lithotripter, hot ureteroscopy and ESWL services as well as PCNL.

The departments of Urology at NUH and SFH are committed to a long-term partnership and as such the candidate will be expected to participate in a combined cross-site on-call rota. The Urology Department at City Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is accommodated in the Urology Centre which consists of a dedicated Outpatients Department with facilities to undertake flexible cystoscopies and TRUS/LATP biopsies, a lithotripter suite, three urology operating theatres including dedicated Stone and Robot theatres as well as office accommodation. There are also dedicated emergency and male urology wards. Services are also provided at the Nottingham Treatment Centre, located on the QMC campus

Main duties of the job

The Departments of Urology and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust (SFH) have recently merged to provide urological services to a population of approximately 1.4 million. The urology team currently consists of 14 consultants at NUH and 5 consultants at SFH providing a full range of services. The Unit also comprises 5 Urology StRs, 1 clinical fellow, 1 research fellow, a stone, robotic and complex upper tract fellow who form a ‘fellows’ on call rota between the middle grades and consultant. We have Clinical Nurse Specialists in Cancer, andrology and stones. The Advanced Nurse Practitioners help independent run the prostate cancer, haematuria and LUTS clinics. 

A full range of Urology emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under his/her care.

 

Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Urology service.

 

Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.

 

Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of the department

Please see for job description for provisional job plan 

The on-call commitment will be 1:15 supported by Junior staff. This post has a hot-week on-call system, which is remunerated at 0.7 PA. There is no paediatric component to the on-call

Working for our organisation

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

 

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.

As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.

As one of the NHS Trusts identified in the New Hospital Programme, a programme of investment in NHS hospitals, we have extensive plans to improve our hospitals and the services we deliver for patients. As well as the redevelopment of the Queen’s Medical Centre and City Hospital, plans for a new 70 bed NHS rehabilitation facility set to be built on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, are currently going through the approvals process.

 

 

This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full range of Urology emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under his/her care.

 

Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Urology service.

 

Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.

 

Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of the department

Please see for job description for provisional job plan 

The on-call commitment will be 1:15 supported by Junior staff. This post has a hot-week on-call system, which is remunerated at 0.7 PA. There is no paediatric component to the on-call

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GMC registration
  • CCT expected within 6 months of interview
  • Eligible to be included on the specialist register

Skills

Essential criteria
  • General Urology experience
  • Evidence of audit
Desirable criteria
  • Stone experience

Qualifications

Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree
  • Management or teaching qualifications

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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 Dhaval Bodiwala
Job title
Head of Service
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Candidates are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the Trust, and should contact the following Consultants in the first instance if they wish to do so:

 

Mr Ben Sherwood, Head of Service [email protected] Tel 0115 9691169 ext 75835

Mr Dhaval Bodiwala, Head of Service, [email protected] Tel 0115 9691169 ext 75835

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