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Job Overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
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Locum Consultant Urologist
Locum Consultant
Job Overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This Consultant Urological Surgeon post is based at the Freeman Hospital and may have commitments in one of our peripheral hospitals.
This is a fixed term, 12 month post.
We would welcome applications from individuals whatever their subspecialist interest.
A significant component of the post will involve delivery of flexible operating session cover. Therefore, the timetable below is for illustrative purposes only.
The Urology Department has a large fixed bed base between 2 inpatient wards (60 beds) and 1 day case/ short stay ward (20 beds). Surgery is delivered between 5 Urology Theatres and 1 further theatre in our new Day Case Hospital. Robotic Surgery is based on 2 Intuitive XI systems, with a 3rd system due to be delivered shortly. Robotic surgery is supported by a dedicated team of Surgical Care Practitioners as well a Specialist Nurse Teams. The Urology Department offers almost all Urology Services on one site including complex functional and reconstructive work, complex stones, major Oncology as well as a wide range of benign procedures.
Please Read Attached Job Description And Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will join a group of 26 Consultant Urologists based at the Freeman Hospital providing services to Tyneside, Gateshead and Northumberland on a Hub and Spoke model.
The department also consists of a large team of Specialist Nurses as well as a full rota of Resident Specialist Registrars on site 24 hours, 7 days a week in addition to Core Trainees and Foundation Doctors.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr David Rix via email at
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Participate in the delivery of the high quality urology care
- Other subspecialty interest
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- Routine administrative duties of an NHS consultant
- Participation in commercial and NIHR trials as an investigator or PI or chief investigator- depending on experience.
- Undergraduate/ post graduate including clinical supervision.
Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
- FRCS (Urol) or equivalent
- Higher Degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
Essential criteria
- Previous paid NHS experience
- Evidence of experience in the specialty
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Essential criteria
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Essential criteria
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
- Research/critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
- Higher degree
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
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
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 680.5KB)
- Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
- Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Rachel Graham Job title HR Advisor Email address
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