Consultant Urologist

Job description

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to invite candidates to apply to work with us as a Consultant Urologist at York Hospital. You will be joining a Trust which is proud to be supporting an ambitious programme of service modernisation and has a reputation for providing high quality services.

The successful post-holder will join the department at York on a 12 PA basis. The on call commitment is currently a 1 in 6 moving to a 1 in 8 rota. Experience in urological cancer work, in particular laparoscopic nephrectomies would be advantageous, but we are keen to support development of other specialist interests such as paediatric urology, female continence surgery, laparoscopic urology, andrology or diagnostic urology.

The job plan will comprise of main theatre operating, day case lists and outpatient clinics at the York site as well as new patient clinics at Malton. The consultant urologists are supported by two specialist registrars, one specialty doctor and a team of urology nurse practitioners and cancer nurse specialists.

The Trust opened a Urology Diagnostic Centre in Malton in February 2017 providing ‘one stop’ diagnostics to new patients with same day flexible cystoscopy, TRUS biopsy, ultrasound, x-ray and urodynamics. All consultants, specialty doctors, specialist registrars and nurse practitioners work at Malton on a regular basis.

As a Trust, we provide acute hospital services for approximately 600,000 people living in and around York, North and North East Yorkshire. The Trust has an annual turnover of over £400 million. We manage 1,127 beds (including day case beds) and have a workforce of over 8,000 staff working across our hospitals and in the community. Our main sites are our teaching hospitals in York and Scarborough, which are within the beautiful and historic city, and the spectacular North York Moors and North Yorkshire Coast respectively. There is currently a separate on call rota for York and Scarborough with one Lead Clinician across both sites.

The Department of Urology forms part of the Surgery Care Group at the Trust. The department has close links with Hull and York Medical School (HYMS) offering interested candidates opportunities for undergraduate teaching or the development of management roles within the medical school. Candidates must have a higher medical qualification. A familiarity with issues of service organisation and development would be particularly advantageous.

The Trust also offers an excellent Staff Benefits package to all employees, which includes salary sacrifice schemes and local discounts/offers. In addition you will receive an excellent Study leave package to support your on-going professional development; we also offer a competitive relocation package.

What happens after I apply?

If shortlisted, we will invite you to an Assessment Centre and interview the date of which is to be decided; in this we will ask you to participate in 2 activities. All details will be provided on the day and there is no preparation required in advance.

Company Description

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale - an area covering 3,400 square miles.

In April 2011 we took over the management of community-based services in Selby, York, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale and in July 2012 acquired Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, bringing Scarborough and Bridlington Hospitals into the organisation.

Our annual turnover is over £400million.  We manage eight hospital sites, 1,100 beds (including day case beds) and have a workforce of over 8,500 staff working across our hospitals and in the community.