Job summary
- Main area
- Urology
- Grade
- ST6-8
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 321-SUWON-MS-7542175-S6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £73,992 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow -Pelvic Uro-Oncology
ST6-8
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
A senior pelvic uro-oncology fellowship (robotic surgery) as a one year fixed-term contract from August 2024. Prospective applicants are expected to hold FRCS(Urol) or equivalent, and have already obtained any required English language qualification (e.g. IELT), and ideally have GMC registration or all necessary approvals to acquire this.
The appointment is on a whole-time basis but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share.
Candidates are very welcome to visit the Departments and are invited to contact:
Mr Richard Bell (Clinical Lead) Tel: Oxford (01865) 225942 / email : [email protected] or Mr Alastair Lamb (Honorary Consultant Urologist) Tel: +44 7779 593099 / email: [email protected]
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis following consultation.
Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
Main duties of the job
The department seeks to appoint a Pelvic Uro-Oncology Fellow (CCT level) for a fixed term of 1 year to this robotic surgery fellowship, based within the professorial surgical unit at the Nuffield Department of Surgery and Churchill Hospital Cancer Centre
Subspecialist fellowship training is available in all aspects of pelvic oncology including robotic prostatectomy, robotic cystectomy, open cystectomy and multidisciplinary open pelvic exenteration cases. We have three dedicated surgical care practitioners (SCP) who assist with the majority of robotic procedures. This post will also provide paid protected time to undertake oncological research (10%), with negotiable extended fellowship periods for those interested in undertaking more comprehensive scientific research projects (18 months or two years total length depending on funding availability). A choice of projects is available in collaboration with the world class research facilities of Oxford University. It is expected that the fellow will produce several research outputs for presentation at international meetings and publication in peer reviewed journals.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. We became a Foundation Trust on 1 October 2015 and believe that this will enable us to work more effectively in partnership with our patients and our local community to provide high quality healthcare.
The Trust is made up of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, north Oxfordshire.
We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation) medical education, training and research.
Most services are provided in our hospitals, but over six percent are delivered from 44 other locations across the region, and some in patients' homes.
Existing collaborations include the ambitious research programmes established through the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), located on the John Radcliffe Hospital site and at the Biomedical Research Unit in musculoskeletal disease at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. These set the standard in translating science and research into new and better NHS clinical care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service. The duties of this post include:
- Working with the members of the Oxford Pelvic Oncology Group as part of a team to deliver the prostate and bladder cancer
- Participate in a weekly Specialist Pelvic Oncology
- Participation in General Urology Clinics as
- Provision of a weekly service-commitment diagnostic list, expected to be prostate biopsies or flexible cystoscopies as
- Participate in morning ward
- Participate in the 1:9 Urology emergency on call rota
- Occasional assisting when the SCP is on leave or has other
- Convene fortnightly RARP planning meeting
- Taking on a lead role in planning, projecting, conducting, and publishing of several research projects relevant to the service
- Being responsible in updating and actioning of the BAUS oncology
- Ensuring up-to-date and accurate administrative and medical records as required,
- Supervision and teaching of junior doctors and nurses as
- Acting as a tutor for medical students and deliver clinical teaching related to general surgical topics as required.
- Maintain an accurate log of surgical, educational, research and clinical
Person specification
GMC Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration and licence to practise
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- FRCS (Urol or equivalent medical qualification
- Obtained certificate completion of training (CCT) or within 6 months of doing so, or equivalent
- Advanced Life Support certificate from the Resuscitation Council UK or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Additional related qualifications, e.g. intercalated degree, BSc, BA, MedSci or equivalent
- MRCP (UK) Part 1 or equivalent MRCS (UK) Part A or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to provide complete details of employment history.
- Evidence of competence in open major pelvic surgery and in assisting laparoscopic or robotic surgery
Desirable criteria
- Completion of Foundation training
- Previous console experience in robotic prostatectomy or robotic cystectomy
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good leadership skills.
- Effective administrative and time management skills.
- Evidence of interest in/experience of teaching/training.
- Understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Ability to manage own academic research and associated activities. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for publication, present research proposals and results, and represent the unit at meetings
- Evidence of contribution to successful teamwork
- Willingness to learn new techniques
- Highly developed problem solving and reasoning skills.
- Commitment to a career in pelvic oncology
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
- Good spoken and written English
- IELTS certificate for non-native English language speakers (sufficient for GMC requirements – all scores above 7.0, average 7.5)
- Hepatitis B immune
Transport
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between to and between OUH sites
Desirable criteria
- UK driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Prof. Richard Bryant
- Job title
- Clinical Lead and Honorary Consultant Urologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Mr Aaron Leiblich (Consultant Urologist)
email: [email protected]
Mr Richard Bell (Consultant Urologist)
email: [email protected]
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