Urology Stone Fellow (ST5+ equivalent)

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The post holder will undertake clinical duties within the Department of Urology. The individual will work closely with consultant trainers in Endourology and Stone Surgery (Mr A Rogers, Mr D A Rix, Mr D Thomas, Mr Luk, Mr Fitzpatrick and Mr M Shaw) in one of the biggest stone units in the UK. There will also be opportunity to undertake some training in the Interventional Radiology department. The post holder will be expected to undertake clinical research with the aim of presenting and publishing their work. There is also ample opportunity to take part in teaching and audits. The post is ideally suited to post-CCT trainees looking to develop a comprehensive practice in all aspects of endourology in preparation for Consultant job applications. The fellowship has been accredited as part of the Royal College of Surgeons Senior Clinical Fellowship programme, the only endourology fellowship in the UK to do so.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Toby Page, Clinical Directoron 0191 2336161 or via e-mail at Toby.Page@nhs.net or Mr Alistair Rogers, Consultant Urological Surgeon (Fellowship Lead) via e-mail at Alistair.Rogers2@nhs.net.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical care and be trained in endourology and advanced stone surgery within the Department of Urology, concentrating on the endoscopic management of stones and upper tract TCC. In addition, the post holder will be expected to undertake clinical research with the aim of presenting and publishing their work at BAUS or an International Meeting.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Toby Page, Clinical Directoron 0191 2336161 or via e-mail at Toby.Page@nhs.net or Mr Alistair Rogers, Consultant Urological Surgeon (Fellowship Lead) via e-mail at Alistair.Rogers2@nhs.net.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. Rated 'Outstanding' by theCQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Date posted

18 May 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£33,790 to £53,132 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

317-TD-23-099

Job locations

Urology Specialty - FH

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE7 7DN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

Aims:

  • To provide a holistic, patient centred, all-encompassing experience in managing patients with urological conditions linked to Endourology.
  • To develop surgical skills. In a senior trainee who has completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent, to enable the fellowship post holder to apply for Consultant Urological Surgeon posts with a sub-specialty in Endourology.
  • To develop non-surgical clinical, organisational, inter-personal and teaching skills whilst working within a cohesive, busy endourology unit, appropriate to the level of a Consultant Urological Surgeon.
  • To enable the involvement in local, regional and national research and audit projects whilst providing opportunities for publishing and presenting departmental work.
  • To provide flexibility within the fellowship post so that the trainee can focus the aims above onto specific areas of interest in accordance with their PDP.

Clinical:

  • Regular sessions within the dedicated endourology/stone theatre with consultant trainers
  • Active involvement in Stone MDT meetings. Also opportunity to attend other MDT/meetings depending on trainees PDP.
  • Exposure to ESWL and training in delivery if desired
  • Involvement in managing stone patients in an outpatient setting. The aim is to develop skills to enable a fellow run independent clinic, depending on the experience of the trainee.
  • Small amount of service requirement (likely general urology theatre lists).
  • Depending on the aims of the trainees PDP there are also opportunities within the department for training in bladder outflow surgery and minimal invasive upper tract surgery.

Administrative:

  • Administrative work will be limited to enable maximal opportunities for clinical training
  • There are opportunities for service development projects including; writing patient information leaflets, decision making aids and reviewing ureteric stone pathways.
  • The fellowship is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons and therefore the post-holder will part of the RCS fellowship programme, which requires interaction with the programs outputs e.g. uploading logbook data.

Research:

The Urology unit at Freeman hospital has a big, active research and audit portfolio. It has been a key recruiter to a number of national trials (e.g. SUSPEND) and collaborated widely on Endourology projects. Opportunities include:

  • Leadership and supervision of local audit projects
  • Clinical research projects in collaboration with Nephrology with a focus on stone biochemistry
  • Projects on complex endourology and within renal transplantation
  • Surgical and ESWL outcomes data review
  • Involvement in national collaborative BAUS projects and audits
  • Assistance in grant application writing for potential stone related trials.
  • Presenting work at regional, national and international meetings (excellent departmental record of abstracts accepted to recent BAUS national congress).
  • Publication of suitable work to support fellows portfolio and career progression.

Teaching:

There will be opportunities for teaching and training outside of the clinical environment:

  • Regional FRCS teaching taught course sessions (if desired by the fellow).
  • Courses in the Cadaveric Newcastle Surgical Training Centre (e.g. Ureteroscopy, PCNL access)
  • National courses, BAUS congress and International courses/conferences.
  • Non-surgical skills simulation training

It is expected that the fellow will undertake teaching, as befits a post within a large teaching hospital:

  • Operative teaching of junior registrars in theatre in endourology procedures
  • Teaching of Foundation and Core trainees in departmental teaching
  • Taking part in undergraduate teaching as appropriate
  • Teaching sessions to GPs and community care workers

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

Aims:

  • To provide a holistic, patient centred, all-encompassing experience in managing patients with urological conditions linked to Endourology.
  • To develop surgical skills. In a senior trainee who has completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent, to enable the fellowship post holder to apply for Consultant Urological Surgeon posts with a sub-specialty in Endourology.
  • To develop non-surgical clinical, organisational, inter-personal and teaching skills whilst working within a cohesive, busy endourology unit, appropriate to the level of a Consultant Urological Surgeon.
  • To enable the involvement in local, regional and national research and audit projects whilst providing opportunities for publishing and presenting departmental work.
  • To provide flexibility within the fellowship post so that the trainee can focus the aims above onto specific areas of interest in accordance with their PDP.

Clinical:

  • Regular sessions within the dedicated endourology/stone theatre with consultant trainers
  • Active involvement in Stone MDT meetings. Also opportunity to attend other MDT/meetings depending on trainees PDP.
  • Exposure to ESWL and training in delivery if desired
  • Involvement in managing stone patients in an outpatient setting. The aim is to develop skills to enable a fellow run independent clinic, depending on the experience of the trainee.
  • Small amount of service requirement (likely general urology theatre lists).
  • Depending on the aims of the trainees PDP there are also opportunities within the department for training in bladder outflow surgery and minimal invasive upper tract surgery.

Administrative:

  • Administrative work will be limited to enable maximal opportunities for clinical training
  • There are opportunities for service development projects including; writing patient information leaflets, decision making aids and reviewing ureteric stone pathways.
  • The fellowship is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons and therefore the post-holder will part of the RCS fellowship programme, which requires interaction with the programs outputs e.g. uploading logbook data.

Research:

The Urology unit at Freeman hospital has a big, active research and audit portfolio. It has been a key recruiter to a number of national trials (e.g. SUSPEND) and collaborated widely on Endourology projects. Opportunities include:

  • Leadership and supervision of local audit projects
  • Clinical research projects in collaboration with Nephrology with a focus on stone biochemistry
  • Projects on complex endourology and within renal transplantation
  • Surgical and ESWL outcomes data review
  • Involvement in national collaborative BAUS projects and audits
  • Assistance in grant application writing for potential stone related trials.
  • Presenting work at regional, national and international meetings (excellent departmental record of abstracts accepted to recent BAUS national congress).
  • Publication of suitable work to support fellows portfolio and career progression.

Teaching:

There will be opportunities for teaching and training outside of the clinical environment:

  • Regional FRCS teaching taught course sessions (if desired by the fellow).
  • Courses in the Cadaveric Newcastle Surgical Training Centre (e.g. Ureteroscopy, PCNL access)
  • National courses, BAUS congress and International courses/conferences.
  • Non-surgical skills simulation training

It is expected that the fellow will undertake teaching, as befits a post within a large teaching hospital:

  • Operative teaching of junior registrars in theatre in endourology procedures
  • Teaching of Foundation and Core trainees in departmental teaching
  • Taking part in undergraduate teaching as appropriate
  • Teaching sessions to GPs and community care workers

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary Medical Qualification
  • Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months (or within 6 months for non-EEA applicants)

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Good history & examination skills
  • Able to formulate a working diagnosis
  • Able to order appropriate investigations
  • Image interpretation relevant to practice
  • Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague

Maintaining Clinical Competence

Essential

  • Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Experience of audit projects

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Essential

  • Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
  • Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Alignment with the Trust's Core & Professional Behaviours
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Time management skills
  • Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality

Desirable

  • Evidence of leadership skills
  • IT literate
Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary Medical Qualification
  • Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months (or within 6 months for non-EEA applicants)

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Good history & examination skills
  • Able to formulate a working diagnosis
  • Able to order appropriate investigations
  • Image interpretation relevant to practice
  • Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague

Maintaining Clinical Competence

Essential

  • Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Experience of audit projects

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Essential

  • Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
  • Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Alignment with the Trust's Core & Professional Behaviours
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Time management skills
  • Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality

Desirable

  • Evidence of leadership skills
  • IT literate

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

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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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Urology Specialty - FH

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE7 7DN


Employer's website

https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Urology Specialty - FH

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE7 7DN


Employer's website

https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

HR Advisor

Louise Scorfield

Louise.Scorfield@nhs.net

Date posted

18 May 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£33,790 to £53,132 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

317-TD-23-099

Job locations

Urology Specialty - FH

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE7 7DN


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