Job summary
Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a 10 session Locum Urology Consultant with a commitment to high quality patient care, innovative service models, delivery of performance targets, and excellence in education/training.
The post-holder will take part in elective in-patient and day-case surgery, outpatient clinics, and educational and administrative activities including active participation in the weekly urology clinical governance and audit meetings.
The Department of Urology is a core service within the Surgery & Cancer division at the Whittington. The service delivers over 1,200 surgical cases across adults and children per year of which ~25% are inpatients. In addition to this approximately 13,000 outpatient appointments are delivered per year including outpatient procedures.
The service has close ties to the Community division of Whittington Health running a Community urology service which continually seeks opportunities to develop the Urological acute pathways and take care closer to home for patients.
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will take part in elective in-patient and day-case surgery, outpatient clinics, and educational and administrative activities including active participation in the weekly urology clinical governance and audit meetings.
See the attached job description & person specification for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will take part in elective in-patient and day-case surgery, outpatient clinics, and educational and administrative activities including active participation in the weekly urology clinical governance and audit meetings.
See the attached job description & person specification for further details.
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for GMC Registration and possess FRCS (Urol) or equivalent
- On GMC Specialist Register in relevant specialty, or at the time of interview within 6 months of expected date of CCT
Desirable
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills
- Capacity to use and develop a wide range of theoretical approaches
- Proven ability and commitment to carry out high quality research leading to publication
- Involvement in the clinical audit process and an understanding of its aims and objectives
Desirable
- Understanding and proven ability to apply research findings in a clinical/organisational context
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Comprehensive training in Urological surgery
Clinical Governance and Management
Essential
- The ability to undertake and manage clinical audits including supervision of junior staff
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance framework of NHS
- Understanding of current changes in the management and organisational structures of the NHS
- Knowledge and understanding of principles of resource and budgetary management.
Teaching skills & experience and Research
Essential
- Proven ability to teach in clinical settings
- Ability to act as a consistent reference point in a team and to take a leadership role where needed
- Experience of teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload and delegate responsibilities as appropriate.
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for GMC Registration and possess FRCS (Urol) or equivalent
- On GMC Specialist Register in relevant specialty, or at the time of interview within 6 months of expected date of CCT
Desirable
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills
- Capacity to use and develop a wide range of theoretical approaches
- Proven ability and commitment to carry out high quality research leading to publication
- Involvement in the clinical audit process and an understanding of its aims and objectives
Desirable
- Understanding and proven ability to apply research findings in a clinical/organisational context
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Comprehensive training in Urological surgery
Clinical Governance and Management
Essential
- The ability to undertake and manage clinical audits including supervision of junior staff
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance framework of NHS
- Understanding of current changes in the management and organisational structures of the NHS
- Knowledge and understanding of principles of resource and budgetary management.
Teaching skills & experience and Research
Essential
- Proven ability to teach in clinical settings
- Ability to act as a consistent reference point in a team and to take a leadership role where needed
- Experience of teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload and delegate responsibilities as appropriate.
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).
