Job overview
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Locum Consultant in Urology to join the team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. This full-time post will be based primarily at our new Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital, with additional cross-site responsibilities at Queen’s Hospital.
These are fixed-term locum consultant appointments, each for a period of 12 months.
The appointees will be key members of the multidisciplinary team, helping to deliver specialist care to a growing population and contributing to the department’s academic and clinical reputation through teaching, training, and education.
Main duties of the job
Locum Consultant Urologist
The appointees will:
• Have a continuing responsibility for the clinical care of patients in his/her charge and for the proper functioning of the department.
• Deliver a high quality responsive surgical service to the patients who use it
• Be responsible for providing appropriate inpatient cover to patients
• Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and the running of a clinical department.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current surgical practice.
• Maintain his/her professional development with all available training opportunities and ensure compliance with mandatory training
• Work with other Consultant colleagues as a team
• Take part in the urology on-call rota
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Shortlisting Criteria
Essential criteria
1. CCT / CESR in Urology. GMC Specialist Registration
2. Evidence of current, safe, independent consultant-level practice in core urology
3. Ability to contribute effectively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
4. Fellowship or equivalent experience in Urology
5. Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives
6. Previous UK surgical experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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