Endourology Stone Fellow (Post-CCT equivalent)

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

This post is to commence 1 September 2026 for 12 months.

The post holder will undertake clinical duties within the Department of Urology. There will also be opportunity to undertake some training in the Interventional Radiology department. The post holder will be expected to undertake clinical research with the aim of presenting and publishing their work.  There is also ample opportunity to take part in teaching and audits. The post is ideally suited to post-CCT trainees looking to develop a comprehensive practice in all aspects of endourology in preparation for Consultant job applications. The fellowship has been accredited as part of the Royal College of Surgeons Senior Clinical Fellowship programme, the only endourology fellowship in the UK to do so.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical care and be trained in endourology and advanced stone surgery within the Department of Urology, concentrating on the endoscopic management of stones and upper tract TCC.  In addition, the post holder will be expected to undertake clinical research with the aim of presenting and publishing their work at BAUS or an International Meeting.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Alistair Rogers, Consultant Urological Surgeon on 0191 2336161 extension: 39339 [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

Aims:

• To provide a holistic, patient centred, all-encompassing experience in managing patients with urological conditions linked to ‘Endourology’.
• To develop surgical skills. In a senior trainee who has completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent, to enable the fellowship post holder to apply for Consultant Urological Surgeon posts with a sub-specialty in Endourology.
• To develop non-surgical clinical, organisational, inter-personal and teaching skills whilst working within a cohesive, busy endourology unit, appropriate to the level of a Consultant Urological Surgeon.
• To enable the involvement in local, regional and national research and audit projects whilst providing opportunities for publishing and presenting departmental work.
• To provide flexibility within the fellowship post so that the trainee can focus the aims above onto specific areas of interest in accordance with their PDP.

Clinical:

• Regular sessions within the dedicated endourology/stone theatre with consultant trainers
• Active involvement in Stone MDT meetings. Also opportunity to attend other MDT/meetings depending on trainees PDP.
• Exposure to ESWL and training in delivery if desired
• Involvement in managing stone patients in an outpatient setting. The aim is to develop skills to enable a fellow run independent clinic, depending on the experience of the trainee.
• Small amount of service requirement (likely general urology theatre lists).
• Depending on the aims of the trainees PDP there are also opportunities within the department for training in bladder outflow surgery and minimal invasive upper tract surgery.

Administrative:

• Administrative work will be limited to enable maximal opportunities for clinical training
• There are opportunities for service development projects including; writing patient information leaflets, decision making aids and reviewing ureteric stone pathways.
• The fellowship is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons and therefore the post-holder will part of the RCS fellowship programme, which requires interaction with the programs outputs e.g. uploading logbook data.

Research:

The Urology unit at Freeman hospital has a big, active research and audit portfolio. It has been a key recruiter to a number of national trials (e.g. SUSPEND) and collaborated widely on Endourology projects. Opportunities include:

• Leadership and supervision of local audit projects
• Clinical research projects in collaboration with Nephrology with a focus on stone biochemistry
• Projects on complex endourology and within renal transplantation
• Surgical and ESWL outcomes data review
• Involvement in national collaborative BAUS projects and audits
• Assistance in grant application writing for potential stone related trials.
• Presenting work at regional, national and international meetings (excellent departmental record of abstracts accepted to recent BAUS national congress).
• Publication of suitable work to support fellows portfolio and career progression.

Teaching:

There will be opportunities for teaching and training outside of the clinical environment:

• Regional FRCS teaching taught course sessions (if desired by the fellow).
• Courses in the Cadaveric Newcastle Surgical Training Centre (e.g. Ureteroscopy, PCNL access)
• National courses, BAUS congress and International courses/conferences.
• Non-surgical skills simulation training

It is expected that the fellow will undertake teaching, as befits a post within a large teaching hospital:

• Operative teaching of junior registrars in theatre in endourology procedures
• Teaching of Foundation and Core trainees in departmental teaching
• Taking part in undergraduate teaching as appropriate
• Teaching sessions to GP’s and community care workers

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend.  As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.