Consultant Urological Surgeon 10PAs | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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. 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. In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee. 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.

The role will support the delivery of specialist uro-oncology. For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact Mr David Rix, Clinical Director (Urology) via email at David.rix@nhs.net.

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: Participate in the delivery of the high quality urology care, General Urology, Other subspeciality interest, General on call.
• Administrative: Routine administrative duties of an NHS consultant.
• Research: Participation in commercial and NIHR trials as an investigator or PI or chief investigator - depending on experience.
• Teaching: Undergraduate/post graduate including clinical supervision.

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.