Consultant Urological Surgeon
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustAt East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
The department in Blackburn is a fully integrated Urology outpatients, ward and offices, all of which are contained in a dedicated unit. The Urology ward is based on B14. The dedicated Urology outpatient’s suite has facilities for flexible cystoscopies and transperineal and transrectal ultrasound and prostate biopsies. The department also has two Holmium:YAG and one Thulium-fibre laser machines that are used for endourology. In addition, there is two TULA laser machine to enable flexible cystoscopy and bladder tumour ablations procedures in the out-patient setting.
The department is an accredited cancer centre for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Network where the major pelvic cancer surgery is split between East Lancashire Hospitals Trust and one other provider. The trust has three NHS commissioned da Vinci robots.
On the Burnley site there is a Urology Investigations Unit (UIU), which is a large, purpose-built unit where flexible cystoscopy, urodynamics, TULA laser ablations and perineal precision point prostate biopsy sessions, and out-patient (OP) clinics take place. Some minimally invasive prostate procedures traditionally done in theatre are now being done in the OP setting in the UIU and this will expand further. Inpatient work and day case surgery is performed in the Elective Surgical Centre. Paediatric urological surgery is also performed in Burnley. The department provides extracorporeal lithotripsy services once a month, using mobile lithotripsy providers.
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The job plan is 10PAs annualised. There is ample scope to increase to 12 PAs by mutual agreement based on the needs of the department.
Working with the existing colleagues, the successful candidate is expected to retain a commitment to provide core urological services and participate in the urological on-call rota but will have an interest and experience in benign urological conditions, especially kidney stone disease (including PCNL surgery and ureteroscopy) and complex BPH management. Appropriate mentoring and support mechanisms are already in place and will be provided by members of the existing multidisciplinary team. If interested, the candidate will be provided the opportunity and support to develop additional specialist interests to augment and increase services provided by the department.
Included in this 10PA job plan there is a once per month mandatory urology directorate meeting session that equates to 0.2 SPA annualised. Predictable on call/ unpredictable on call is referenced within this job plan. The overnight and weekend on call is 1:10 with this successful appointment. On call intensity supplement will be Category A: 3%
Working for our organisation
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospital.
We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services, and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and Uro-Gynaecology Surgery.
Our Blackburn site is the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire other than Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The Emergency Department at Blackburn is the only ED for East Lancashire and is a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma Network working closely with the Trauma Centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The ED is supported by Urgent Care Centres at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington. We have day and night Air Ambulance helicopter landing facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. THE POST
The appointment is for a full time Consultant Urological Surgeon starting on 10PAs initially working across our two base sites of RBTH and BGTH. There is ample scope to increase up to 12 PAs mutual agreement based on the needs of the department. It is intended that the successful candidate will have an interest and experience in benign urological conditions, especially kidney stone disease (including PCNL surgery and ureteroscopy) and complex BPH management, including minimally invasive surgical treatment for benign prostates. The post holder is expected to:
1. Provide a patient centred service, respecting the privacy, dignity and choice of individual patients.
2. Observe and comply with clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures (including local and national employment and personnel policies) agreed with employees and management.
3. Be closely involved in clinical audit and other clinical governance issues (support for quality improvement projects and audits is provided by the Trust audit team).
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In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post
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