Consultant in Urology Surgery

at  Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Working Full Time: 10 Sessions per week
An opportunity has arisen for a substantive Consultant post in the Urology department of the Planned Care Directorate at The Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust. This is a full time (10 PA). The emphasis of the post is to provide a Specialist Urology service along with the other 4 Consultant Urological Surgeons who work across the directorate to provide outpatients, diagnostics, day case and inpatient surgery.
They will be expected to take part in local and national audits of surgical outcomes and will be expected to recruit to national trials and publish outcomes. They will participate in a 1:5 on-call rota for Urological Emergencies. They will support teaching and training within the Directorate, encourage innovation and the development of team based practice.
The department has a bespoke unit for outpatients, urodynamics and lithotripsy. The candidates will be expected to integrate within the team of 4 existing Consultants in order to provide a complete Urological Service. Duties will be allocated depending on skills of appointed candidate and needs of the department.
This post is essential to meet the increased demand in Urology and maintain the quality of the management of urological disease, continue the provision of emergency urology care and work with the team to develop the service to meet demand
BMA guidance states that a full-time Consultant (10 PA’s per week) will typically undertake an average of 2.5 SPAs per week. Therefore, 2.5 SPAs per Consultant is neither a minimum nor a maximum [See 3 ] This premise is held by the Trust and is the starting point for SPA discussions at job planning.
The Trust recognises the importance of SPA and places no restriction upon it, provided it is demonstrable in terms of output and agreed to align with Trust objectives. These objectives and the PA allocation will be mutually agreed.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
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