Urology Stone Consultant

The post is for a full time 10 PA (programmed activity) Consultant Urologist trained stone surgeon, based at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston with 2 theatre sessions. The post holder will share on call and MDT responsibilities with Lincolnshire colleagues.

There is an unprecedented quality, efficiency and productivity challenge to the NHS as a result of public expenditure reductions. This called for a radical re-evaluation of all aspects of the work of NHS organisations. The Trust recognises the opportunities this presents for creating new delivery models for clinical services.

The Lincoln based urology team is looking forward to welcome an enthusiastic colleague, who would support a dynamic team of stone surgeons at Pilgrim Hospital. This job is a replacement job. The Appointee will be expected to have a subspecialist training in complex stone surgery. It I desirable that the Appointee has some paediatric experience, to further support our paediatric service. The appointee will also be expected, in conjunction with their colleagues, to provide a comprehensive Urology service, based at Pilgrim Hospital.

The Appointee will have two outpatient clinics and an all-day operating complex stone surgery list once a week at Pilgrim Hospital, and a further core/endourology operating list once every 3 weeks at Grantham Hospital.

The appointee will take part in the 1:10 Urology consultant on-call rota for emergency duties at Lincoln County Hospital and provide, on a reciprocal basis, emergency cover for colleagues during periods of absence.

The appointee will be required to play an active part in the robust clinical audit programme in operation within the Department and to take part in regional and national audits.

The appointee will be expected to undertake clinical supervision of medical students and core or specialty trainees including workplace assessment, feedback and communication with educational supervisors as appropriate.

The Urology Department sits within the Division of Surgery which provides a wide range of surgical services including:

- Theatres, Anaesthetics, Critical Care
- Urology
- General Surgery and Vascular
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Head and Neck
- Ophthalmology

The Urology department provides a wide range of urological services including:

- Robotic Surgery for Prostate and renal cancer
- Complex upper urinary tract open/robotic surgery, Full range of stone surgery, including PCNL, recently added new Holmium laser unit for the upper tract Endo-urology
- Full range of incontinence services, Nurse led erectile dysfunction clinics
- A dedicated Urology investigations suite offering a full range of diagnostic facilities.

Urology is a large, Trust-wide department catering for the needs of patients in this large geographical county. The sister units are based at Lincoln and Pilgrim (Boston) with their own catchment area for the purpose of seamless delivery of service: There is an additional inpatient urology facility on the Grantham site, with outpatient, diagnostic and day cases also cared for on the Louth site. Outreach clinics provide locally based outpatient services in Gainsborough and Spalding. The team provides site cover for both Lincoln and Boston daily (including Weekend) with our main On Call hub permanently sitting at Lincoln. The department boasts a strong team of specialist nurses, led by a nurse consultant.

Please see attached Job description and person specification.

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