Locum Consultant Urologist

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Job overview

Department of Urology

Locum Consultant Urologist with special interest in Endourology (10 PAs)

Start date: April 2025

Main duties of the job

This post attracts 10 PAs. This is for a 12 month fixed term post with a view to a substantive appointment.

The department is well supported by an interventional radiology department. The Urology department supports the Renal unit at St Helier. There is an onsite lithotripter and the department offers a regional acute and elective lithotripsy service.

Specialist nursing staff attached to the department include 2 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, four urology nurse specialist in benign urology and six in cancer

You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold Licence to Practice and ideally be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.

Applicants are invited to visit the department beforehand.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

1. To, at all times, comply with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time.
2. To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
3. To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
4. To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Medical Director.
5. On commencement to ensure personal attendance at the Trust’s corporate Induction (or arranged Consultant Induction).
6. To participate in the Trust’s Statutory & Mandatory training programme.
7. To be responsible for the clinical management of out-patients under your care.
8. The principal duty of this post is to provide a comprehensive clinical service to patients.

Person specification

Values and Behaviours

• Put the patient first by being happy, helpful, caring, respectful and patient
• Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence
• Work as one team – communicate, collaborate and share
• Respect each other by being polite, pleasant and listening

Qualifications and Training

• Hold a medical qualification or qualification registered with the GMC
• Entry onto the Specialist Register for GMC or be within six months of obtaining CCT/CESR
• Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e. MRCS

• MD or equivalent higher degree or evidence of relevant research
• ATLS provider/instructor status

Clinical, Management & Admin

• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Urology
• Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota for Urology
• Audit/Research experience
• Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT/CESR
• Supervision of postgraduate trainees
• Personal time management skills
• Clinical governance
• Ability to organise inpatient and outpatient waiting lists

• Proven track record in Urology
• A subspeciality interest
• Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development

Teaching and Research Experience

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and post graduate trainees
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Ability to contribute to change management
• Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
• Ability to critically review research

• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates/postgraduates
• Experience of supervising junior doctors
• Experience of teaching lay groups and other staff groups
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research
• Publications in peer review journals

Language

• Demonstratable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work in partnership to deliver a patient centred service
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement
• Good interpersonal skills
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to communicate with patients and relatives
• Able to make own arrangements for travel between working sites

Our mission: ‘to put the patient first by delivering great care to every patient, every day.’

There’s never been a better time to join the Epsom and St Helier team. Our hospitals are facing a bright and busy future, and our staff have a proven track record in providing high quality, compassionate care for our patients.

Boasting incredible staff benefits and dedicated training schemes, working for us will not only take your career forward, but could help to transform the lives of our patients and visitors.

We offer all employees some fantastic staff benefits, and are the only hospitals in Surrey to offer staff the London high cost area supplement. Our hospitals also benefit from great locations, so whether you're attracted to the bright lights of the city or the countryside of Epsom Downs, both are within easy reach.

FURTHER INFORMATION

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POSITION MAY CLOSE EARLIER THAN THE STATED CLOSING DATE IF A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED. IF YOU WISH TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, YOU ARE ADVISED TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE**

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For new entrants into the NHS, your pay under the Agenda for Change or Medical & Dental Pay Bands, will normally be set at the minimum of the pay band as advertised.

If you apply for this position and do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.

ESTH values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Internal applicants from underrepresented minority groups are encouraged to seek development support such as work shadowing and interview skills coaching. Please contact the recruitment team for more information.