Job summary
The Department of Urology is sited in the purpose-built Urology unit on the Castle Hill Hospital Site. The facilities house a centralised urology service linking a 28-bed ward with a day procedures area. There is also a separate acute assessment area/ambulatory ward. The day services area includes cystoscopy, urodynamics and lithotripsy suites. Outpatient facilities are provided at the Castle Hill Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary and East Riding Community Hospital sites. Urology day-case surgery takes place within the stand-alone Day Surgery Unit at Castle Hill Hospital.
There are currently seven Consultant Urologists within the department. They work closely as a team with each consultant providing a general urology service and having special interests covering most aspects of adult urological care. The Department has had an established robotic surgical programme since 2015, treating prostate, bladder and renal cancer.
The Department is supported by a strong and dynamic Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Specialist team, consisting of nine nurses who undertake a variety of roles within the department. There are 3 Senior Clinical Fellows and three Speciality Trainees from the Yorkshire rotation that comprise the middle grade rota.
Main duties of the job
This post is a locum post to provide specialist pelvic uro-oncology service within a team of three pelvic urological cancer surgeons in the department. The post-holder will aim to ensure delivery of the Faster Diagnosis Standard, 62 day referral to treatment and 31 day decision to treat to treatment cancer targets for patients.
The department is a high-volume centre for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy, performing over 200 prostatectomy procedures in 2023. The Trust has a two-theatre robotic suite for multi-speciality use. There are two Da VinciTM surgical systems, one with dual console for surgical training. The department has recently appointed two Surgical Care Practitioners for table-side surgical assistance. It is intended that the post-holder will work with the existing robotic surgeons to further develop the robotic-assisted prostatectomy service and robotic-assisted radical cystectomy service. The service covers referrals for specialist cancer surgery from North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust and York District Hospitals NHS Trust.
In addition to specialist cancer services, the post-holder will help to deliver the 18-week target for new referral to treatment for patients with general urological conditions here at Hull University Teaching Hospitals. The post-holder will participate in a 1:8 on call rota.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Spec.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Spec.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- oFull Registration with the GMC
- oFRCS Urol or equivalent
- oIntercollegiate speciality examination or equivalent.
Desirable
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oAbility to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within Urology.
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Clinical Experience
Essential
- oAbility to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within Urology.
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- oAbility to advise on efficient and smooth running of service.
- oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage out patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists.
- oAbility to manage and lead a surgical firm
Desirable
- oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential
- oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
- oCommiment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- oEvidence of participation in audit
- oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable
- oExperience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- oAbility to supervise postgraduate research
- oEvidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- oExperience of teaching/ training in clinical courses
- oOriginal peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oAbility to work flexibly in a changing health service
- oExcellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
- oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
- oEvidence of good team working
- oEnquiring, critical approach to work
- oCommitment to continuing medical education
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- oFull Registration with the GMC
- oFRCS Urol or equivalent
- oIntercollegiate speciality examination or equivalent.
Desirable
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oAbility to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within Urology.
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Clinical Experience
Essential
- oAbility to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within Urology.
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- oAbility to advise on efficient and smooth running of service.
- oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage out patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists.
- oAbility to manage and lead a surgical firm
Desirable
- oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential
- oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
- oCommiment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- oEvidence of participation in audit
- oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable
- oExperience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- oAbility to supervise postgraduate research
- oEvidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- oExperience of teaching/ training in clinical courses
- oOriginal peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oAbility to work flexibly in a changing health service
- oExcellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
- oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
- oEvidence of good team working
- oEnquiring, critical approach to work
- oCommitment to continuing medical education
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
