Consultant Urological Surgeon and Andrologist

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a substantive Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients of the Urology and Andrology services. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job:

• The postholder is expected to work across all Kings Urology sites including Denmark Hill, Princess Royal University Hospital and Beckenham Beacon with on call duties currently located at Denmark Hill.
• The proposed job plan (up to 10 PAs) is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.
• The On-Call commitment is for a 1:10 rota and is classified as Category A.
• There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.
• Together with the other consultant urologists, provide a high quality care service to patients, including all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 day cover for the unit on a rota basis.
• Responsible for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s requirements.