Locum Consultant General Urology and Diagnostics in Leeds

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Urology department are looking to recruit a Locum Consultant to support the General Urology Service who has an interest in all aspects of urology diagnostics. This role is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be joining one of the biggest Urology Departments in the country which provides a wide range of urological services including secondary, tertiary and regional care. The department has an excellent national reputation in specialty Urological training and teaching.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will support the General Urology Service. This includes but is not exhaustive to managing patients via outpatient appointments in Outpatient Clinics, diagnostic testing (flexible cystoscopy) and operating on patients in both Day Case and Inpatient theatres.

What you will bring to the role

This post is to recruit a Locum Consultant for a fixed term post of 12 months to provide comprehensive general urology services including all aspects of urological diagnostic testing. To perform clinic duties appropriate to the post. These include attendance at outpatient clinics, perform day-case and inpatient operations, attendance at clinical meetings including MDTs and maintenance of appropriate records of treatments, including the dictation of clinical notes and letters. To contribute to the teaching of nursing, undergraduate and junior medical staff. To contribute to post-graduate teaching. The appointee will also have to perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances at the request of the Lead Clinician, in consultation, when practicable, with both senior and junior colleagues. The specific job plan will be subject to regular review between the appointee and the clinical lead. The appointee will participate in the 1 in 14 Urology, hybrid rota with prospective cover.

Levels of responsibility

Successful candidates will function as a locum consultant, with responsibilities for ward care, outpatient clinics, day-case surgery, day-case endoscopy (cystoscopy) and elective surgery. They will work in conjunction with the wider Urology team to deliver high quality care to patients and to deliver access targets for the organisation. When on call, they will be responsible for the assessment of acutely ill patients, both those who are being admitted as emergency and those who are inpatients.

Teaching and Research/Study and Training

The Urology department in Leeds is recognised as being one of the foremost departments in the UK with an emphasis on subspecialty training. The three main areas include Endo-urology including laparoscopy, uro-oncology and reconstructive, andrology and female urology. It is of note that the department has regular access to a Da Vinci robot. Research is to be encouraged, and it is expected that the post holder will pursue a project during their tenure with a view to publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Although this is not a recognised training post, the incumbent will have the opportunity to participate fully in the training programme, including regular radiology and uropathology meetings, one half-day per week of postgraduate education. The facilities available in a major teaching hospital include good IT, an outstanding Postgraduate Medical Library, with a wide range of urological and other journals, and St James’s University Hospital is physically linked with the Medical School and its library.

This is a Fixed Term post for 12 months.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.