Consultant Urological Surgeon in stone disease and general urology

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team of friendly, supportive urology consultants. The successful candidate will join a team of five established subspecialist stone surgeons covering Nottingham University Hospitals and Sherwood Forest Hospitals. The role will primarily be to treat Stone disease but there will also be a general urology component. This service receives referrals from the wider Nottinghamshire area and tertiary referrals from further afield and may require cross site working patterns including Sherwood Forest Hospitals. There is a well-established weekly stone MDT meeting, on site lithotripter, hot ureteroscopy and ESWL services as well as PCNL. The general urology service including day case ureteroscopy, TURBT and TURP.

Main duties of the job

The Departments of Urology and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust (SFH) provide urological services to a population of approximately 1.4 million. The urology team currently consists of 14 consultants at NUH and 5 consultants at SFH providing a full range of services. The Unit at NUH comprises 5 Urology StRs, 2 clinical fellows, 1 research fellow, a complex upper tract, stone and robotic post-CCT fellows. We have Clinical Nurse Specialists in Cancer, Andrology and Stones. The Advanced Nurse Practitioners help independently run the prostate cancer, haematuria and LUTS clinics. We have recently recruited Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) who will also help in the emergency pathway. Nottingham is the East Midlands’ Major Trauma Unit.

The departments of Urology at NUH and SFH are committed to a long-term partnership and as such the candidate will be expected to participate in a combined cross-site on-call rota. The Urology Department at City Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is accommodated in the Urology Centre, which consists of a dedicated Outpatients Department with facilities to undertake flexible cystoscopies and TRUS/LATP biopsies, a lithotripter suite, three urology operating theatres including dedicated Stone and Robot theatres as well as office accommodation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full range of Urology emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under his/her care.

Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Urology service.

Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.

Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of the department

Please see for job description for provisional job plan

The on-call commitment will be 1:15 supported by Junior staff. This post has a hot-week on-call system, which is remunerated at 0.7 PA. There is no paediatric component to the on-call