Consultant in Urology

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Outwoods; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Urology Consultant Surgeon. The role involves joining a progressive team across two sites to deliver a full spectrum of outpatient and inpatient urology care, including emergency surgery on-call coverage.

You will work within the Urology Department and MDT, serving a population across Derbyshire and surrounding areas.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a full range of outpatient and inpatient urology services at base sites and outreach clinics.
• Provide emergency urology surgery as part of the base site Consultant on-call rota.

Job description

The Urology service at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has an exciting opportunity to appoint a motivated Urology Consultant Surgeon. The successful candidate will join a forward thinking and progressive team of 18 Urology professionals across both sites, supported by high quality colleagues in the wider MDT team, to provide an excellent service within our Urology Department based at Queens Hospital Burton., Responsible for delivering a full range of outpatient and inpatient services at base sites and outreach clinics. The successful candidates will also provide emergency urology surgery as part of the relevant base site Consultant on-call rota.

The Urology service at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton serves the population of Staffordshire, Burton Town, the city of Derby and surrounding areas, this represents a population of well over 1 million people., As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day