Consultant Urologist

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust seek to appoint a dynamic Consultant Urological Surgeon to complement our friendly and supportive team of 16 existing consultants. As the department has evolved with increased sub-specialisation, we are specifically seeking a colleague to contribute to and advance our robotic oncology workload. This role offers an excellent opportunity to join a well-established and collaborative urology service.

Main duties of the job

• This post has arisen from one of our surgeons taking partial retirement and also as expansion of our robotic oncology team.
• You will supervise and train urology higher surgical trainees, CT and FY doctors, and provide post and undergraduate teaching.
• You will be expected to take part in appropriate local and national audits of surgical outcomes, and to submit data to the National Audit and BAUS Complex Operations database.
• You will be involved with urological research, and will be encouraged to develop this, and expand the department's publications and research portfolio.
• The appointee will also be expected to take part in the emergency urology on call rota currently this is 1:15.
• The service operates a consultant of the week (CoW) emergency cover model to provide a 7-day emergency service.
• CoW cover is divided into two blocks, Monday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday. Elective activities are cancelled when assigned to CoW duties.
• The CoW will also cover post-op patients if the operating surgeon is off site or on leave.
• Paediatric Urology emergencies for children under the age of 2 are automatically sent to Birmingham Children's Hospital and emergencies for children over the age of 2 i.e. torsion etc are dealt with by the service.
• There is also cover of adult emergencies on the Walsall site.
• Mentoring arrangements are available in the Trust to all newly appointed consultants with a senior clinician provided to support the successful candidate.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as Good by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job responsibilities

• In conjunction with Consultant and Senior colleagues, to provide a service in Urology including responsibility for providing the agreed sub-specialty service.
• In conjunction with Consultant and Senior colleagues, to play a full part in the out-of-hours On-Call service for the department. This includes being on-call for telephone advice and major incidents.
• In conjunction with Consultant and Senior colleagues, to take part in medical audit and research as appropriate.
• In conjunction with Consultant and Senior colleagues, to ensure that the requirements of clinical governance are met.
• To ensure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of your patients to be able to contact you when necessary.
• The post holder may be required to travel as necessary between hospitals / clinics. A planned and cost-effective approach is expected.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential Entry on Specialist Register (or be within 6 months of being eligible for entry).

Clinical Experience

• Essential Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCST in Urology.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within urology.
• Expertise in urological surgery.
• Special Interest in Prostate robotic surgery, show that they are independent in robotic prostate surgery.
• An interest in another Urological organ e.g. Kidney/bladder.

Management and Administrative Experience

• Essential Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of urology service.
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists.

Desirable Ability to work within a Specialist Unit, Urological Directorate and Working Parties as appropriate.

Teaching Experience

• Essential Ability to teach clinical and operative skills.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.