Locum Consultant Urology | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a full-time Locum Consultant in General Urology for a 12-month fixed term position. The role involves a blend of outpatient clinics, operating duties, and participation in on-call services, with opportunities for mentoring junior staff. Ideal candidates must be on the GMC Specialist Register and capable of delivering comprehensive urology care. The position offers flexible working conditions along with NHS benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension and NHS discount schemes

Qualifications

• Applicants should be on the GMC Specialist Register.
• Experience in general urology required.
• Ability to teach junior staff and undergraduates.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outpatient clinics and operations.
• Participate in a 1:7 on-call rota.
• Provide clinical and administrative support as needed.
• Engage in teaching and clinical governance.

Skills

GMC Specialist Register

Experience in minor/intermediate general urology

Teaching and training abilities

Participation in Clinical Governance

Education

CCT (Completed Clinical Training)

Job description

A full-time Locum Consultant in General Urology is available at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based at Wycombe General Hospital with elective and emergency commitments at High Wycombe General Hospital and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. There will also be a regular out-patient clinic at one of the BHT sites. There will be an allocated weekly theatre list at Wycombe Hospital, although this will not be a fixed day of the week.

The work will comprise a mixture of minor/intermediate general urology. Sub-specialist interests may be able to be accommodated should it complement the interests and needs of the department.

The successful applicant will join the current team of consultants in a 1:7 on call rota with a fully staffed middle grade rota (24 hour cover). Elective activity is cancelled during the on call week so that attendance at more than one site is not expected. The on-call commitment will require regular travel to the Stoke Mandeville Site. The Trust pays travel expenses to cover travel to sites other than the principal site of work.

This is a fixed term temporary Locum Consultant post for 12 months.

Applicants should be on the GMC Specialist Register. It is Trust policy that without CCT, an offer as Locum Consultant can be given for a 6 months fixed term contract, with possibility of it being extended for a further 6 months, but cannot go over 12 months in total.

The Urology unit at Buckinghamshire provides comprehensive general and specialist urology care for over half a million residents. The region is rapidly growing, driven by an active housebuilding programme in the Aylesbury area. This post offers a blend of minor and intermediate general urology cases.

The Trust is a leading regional provider of surgical treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), offering advanced techniques including bipolar TURP, Urolift, HoLEP, prostate artery embolization (PAE), and green light laser prostatectomy. Additional services include laparoscopic upper tract surgery and specialist stone surgery. A joint business case with colorectal and gynaecology colleagues for acquiring a Da Vinci Xi surgical robot has been successfully submitted.

Our unit transitioned to a local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy service, performed by both doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, and plans are underway to establish a community-based diagnostic centre in Amersham. The National Spinal Injuries Centre, renowned globally for spinal injury management, is located at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Urology input here is provided through a reconstructive urology service jointly based at Oxford and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

The key duties and responsibilities are:-

• Outpatient clinics at Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe General or Amersham Hospital
• Operating
• Teaching
• To be part of the on-call rota
• Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
• Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
• Participation in Clinical Governance

The department is a team of 7 consultants and 7 middle grade doctors with approval to expand this to 9 consultants in the coming 12-18 months. We currently run a 1:7 consultant-of-the-week model, and elective activity is suspended during the week on call to allow triage of emergency referrals, advice and guidance and consultant input for our emergency service and operating.

The consultant will be supported by a team of experienced urology clinical nurse specialists, who carry out many of the flexible cystoscopies in the unit and help run the prostate biopsy service with the support of middle tier. The Consultant is also responsible for overseeing their share of a LUTS assessment clinic, the MDT results clinic for their patients, and bladder instillations. We run our service through our elective surgical hub at Wycombe where our Da Vinci Xi and Holmium laser are housed.

We receive excellent support from a team of five uro-radiologists, providing a dedicated prostate MRI service, percutaneous renal procedures and urovascular interventional procedures.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025