Locum Consultant Urologist

NHS; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant Urologist to join their Urology Department. This role involves providing high-quality clinical care across multiple hospitals, together with leadership responsibilities and opportunities for research. The successful candidate will need Full GMC Registration and must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in patient care.

Qualifications

• Must have GMC registration with a Licence to Practice.
• Completed training acceptable to the Royal College of Surgeons for Consultant Status.
• Entry on the Specialist Register via CCT, CESR or European Community Rights.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the provision of a first-class clinical service.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff in the specialty.
• Sustain and develop teaching and research.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Organisational skills

Training skills

Communication skills

Education

Higher Degree

Full GMC Registration

Entry on Specialist Register

Job description

Go back Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Urologist

The closing date is 15 July 2025

The Urology Department at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust provides a Urology Service across the three Trust sites. These include Scunthorpe General Hospital, Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby and Goole and District Hospital with a minimum of 10 PA allocation with an opportunity to include up to a further x2 additional PA's.

The department at Scunthorpe and Grimsby provides a full range of Urological procedures and works closely with Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals where radical surgery is performed in line with the requirements of the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Clinical Network. The department is keen to further enhance these links with increased cross service provisions.

Goole and District Hospital supports Outpatients and Day Cases together with endoscopic procedures including laser lithotripsy bipolar TRUP and vaporisation of prostate and in process of developing HOLEP which is currently provided at Scunthorpe site. All hospital sites provide dedicated flexible-cystoscopy sessions in the Urology Department.

The Urology Service has invested in Urodynamics equipment and has undergone refurbishment with Olympus equipment across all sites and offers all services including ESWL, percutaneous and laparoscopic surgery. The department has recently invested in a new holmium lasers, 3D stacks and HOLEP equipment.

Main duties of the job

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support, other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients.

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements:-

• To ensure the provision of a first class clinical service
• To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
• To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate
• To undertake all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies
• To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's and Operational Group's services plans
• To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Group or the Trust.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• oFull GMC Registration, with a Licence to Practice
• oUndertaken programme of training acceptable to the Royal College of Surgeons for appointment to Consultant Status
• oHigher Degree
• oEntry on the Specialist Register via CCT (proposed CCT date must be within six months of interview), CESR or European Community Rights

Experience / Attainments

• Evidence of specific training in Urology.
• oAble to take responsibility for delivering the service without direct supervision (DGH Level Paediatric Urology)
• Communication Skills Training Programme or willing to attend
• Evidence of a special interest

Skills / Abilities

• oGood interpersonal and Team Building skills
• oLeadership and Organisational Skills
• oAbility to organise and manage priorities
• oManagement ability and understanding (or willingness to learn)
• oTraining Skills
• oAppropriate to the holding of a Consultant Urologist
• oDemonstrable understanding and acceptance of the principles of Clinical Governance
• oAwareness of new developments in the specialty with ability to critically assess the impact of these on the service.
• oEvidence of participation in Clinical Audit
• oEvidence of involvement in Clinical Research

Other Requirements

• oCommitment to and evidence of CPD to meet service needs
• oEnquiring, critical approach to work
• oCaring attitude to patients
• oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local level
• oEligibility to work in the UK

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a yearMinimum of 10 PA's with a 5% oncall pro rata