MYDoc Trust Registrar in Urology

Job responsibilities

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is pleased to announce the development and introduction of this new role. The post will be a combination of service delivery and educational input within the specialty.

The post is not a recognised UK training post. However, the post-holder will have a named supervisor, and be supported in undertaking scheduled educational opportunities within the Trust and specialties.

An Introduction to the Division/Specialty from Miss Rebecca Phillips

This post represents an exciting opportunity to join a urology department in providing state of the art urological services to a population approaching 600,000. In a year the Urology department will see approximately 20,000 outpatients and undertake 6,500 elective and 2,800 non-elective procedures.

The Department of Urology has been designated as a cancer team for major pelvic cancer surgery within the regions Cancer Network. Cancer team designation has allowed development of a large Uro-oncology service. The department also provides continence, neuro-urology and bladder reconstruction services to the regional spinal injuries unit based at the Trust. The provision of advanced Endourology and laparoscopic surgery is established for upper urinary tract benign and malignant conditions. The stone service is comprehensive, with an on-site lithotripter enabling stones to be managed using all of the major treatment modalities. Departmental facilities are excellent. In addition to the advanced laparoscopic urology already provided within the Trust, a robotic surgery service has now been established utilising the DaVinci Robot. While major elective and emergency urological surgery is carried out in Pinderfields Hospital; outpatient work, day case surgery and urological investigations sessions are run on all of the Trusts hospital sites. Urological investigations units are present on all three main hospital sites and provide a focus for the diagnostic investigations and ambulatory treatments that patients may require. In-patient care is provided through a 26 bedded urology ward at Pinderfields. The urology ward also houses an eight-bedded surgical high-dependency unit.

The care of patients who are admitted acutely under urology is carried out with a high level of Consultant input. The on-call team consisting of Consultant, Registrar, CT/FY2 doctor and F1 doctor are free of routine duties and able to concentrate their efforts on looking after patients who have been admitted acutely.

The Getting it Right First time (GIRFT) national report on urology has recommended the establishment of urology area networks to optimise quality and efficiency.

We are in an established Urology Area Network (UAN) with Barnsley General Hospital and provide a tertiary referral service for specialist work and all on-call admissions. Efforts are ongoing to increase the level of collaboration between the two departments with the ultimate aim of having a single unit based primarily at Pinderfields, offering urological care and services to a combined population approaching one million patients.

Urological services are provided within the context of a multi-disciplinary team. There is excellent medical support from colleagues in Anaesthetics, Critical Care, Spinal cord injury, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Uro-gynaecology, Colorectal surgery, Plastic surgery and Radiology. Specialist nursing support includes Uro-oncology nursing, stoma nurses and urology nurse specialists who are based in the investigation facilities on each of the three main hospital sites. The specialist nurses contribute hugely to the ability of the department to offer expert care as near to the patients home as possible.

The Service Role

From a clinical perspective these posts will participate in the cross site senior trainee rota. The senior trainee rota is compliant with the 2016 resident doctor contract averaging 48 hours per week.

Duties will be based primarily on our Pinderfields Hospital site although all our medical staff are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites.

The main duties of the post will include:

Provision of care with responsibility for the management of patients with acute and chronic conditions including complex cases.

Assisting and operating (with or without direct supervision) on patients in theatre depending on attained surgical competencies

Referral of patients to other specialities as appropriate

Out-patient activities/clinics

Involvement in specialty and cross-specialty multi-disciplinary teams and meetings

Involvement in relevant administration duties

Teaching and supervision of junior medical staff and other clinicians as appropriate

Active involvement in audit & clinical governance including service improvement activities

Participation in acute non-resident middle grade on-call rota.

The above list is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after discussion with the post holder.

The MYDoc Training Programme Educational Input & Recognition

Doctors appointed to a MYDoc post will receive relevant educational input. Each doctor will be allocated an Educational Supervisor and will be required to develop a Personalised Work Schedule.

GMC Registration

Essential

• Please state full GMC number
• Full GMC Registration with license to practice.

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree from recognised medical school.
• Successful attainment of the MRCS examination.

Desirable

• ATLS certification
• Higher postgraduate qualifications

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Possesses good communication skills.
• Aiming to pursue a career in Urology.
• Flexibility.
• Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies
• Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance

Desirable

• Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas or project work.

Experience

Essential

• Pre-registration / foundation training and at least one year at Core Trainee level in Urology in an NHS Trust.
• Equivalent experience from overseas.

Desirable

• Relevant experience from other specialties.
• Previous experience at middle-grade level.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills.
• Experience of Clinical research and development.
• Experience of acting up at Specialist Trainee (SpR) level in Urology

Management Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good time management.

Desirable

• Possess good organisational skills.

Right to Work

Essential

• Eligibility to work in the UK.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).