Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Urology

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Manchester seeks a candidate for a fixed-term position in its urology department. The role involves managing acute referrals, providing comprehensive in-patient and out-patient care, participating in MDT meetings, and supervising junior doctors. This position offers the opportunity to work across multiple sites, enhancing professional development while contributing to a collaborative healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• The candidate should meet the standard requirements for a role of this type within the Trust.

Responsibilities

• Manage acute referrals to the urology department.
• Provide in-patient care, out-patient clinics, theatres and flexible cystoscopies.
• Contribute to MDT meetings and on-call duties.
• Engage in other activities timetabled according to the candidate’s skill set and service needs.
• Supervise and support junior doctors according to their level of experience and skills.

Job description

Overview

The duties of the candidate include management of acute referrals to the urology department, in-patient care, out-patient clinics, theatres, flexible cystoscopies, MDT and on-call. Other activities can be timetabled according to the skill set of the candidate and the needs of the service. All junior doctors, including the successful candidate, will be supervised and supported according to their level of experience and skills.

About Manchester University Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (MFT)

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn and is creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We have created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022. We are a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We are also embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. We are committed to inclusion and belonging, equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Role details

This post is a fixed-term position, available with immediate effect. Within MFT, urology services are currently spread across two sites – Wythenshawe Hospital (WY) and Withington Communicty Hosptial (WCH). Out-patient activity is undertaken at both sites, with in-patient services at WY site only. The successful candidate will have sessions at both Wythenshawe and Withington sites and may have the flexibility of delivering activity at the other sites according to the demands of the service and the candidate's professional development objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage acute referrals to the urology department.
• Provide in-patient care, out-patient clinics, theatres and flexible cystoscopies.
• Contribute to MDT meetings and on-call duties.
• Engage in other activities timetabled according to the candidate’s skill set and service needs.
• Supervise and support junior doctors according to their level of experience and skills.

Qualifications and expectations

The successful candidate will have sessions at both Wythenshawe and Withington, with potential to deliver activity at other sites as demanded by the service and the candidate’s developmental objectives. (No specific professional qualifications are listed in the original description; the candidate should meet the standard requirements for a role of this type within the Trust.)