Locum Consultant Urologist with interest in Prostate Cancer

Job overview

Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust is looking to appoint a Locum Consultant Urological Surgeon with a subspecialist interest in prostate cancer. The post holder will provide sub-specialist outpatient, diagnostic and inpatient services for adult patients. The post will require knowledge and skills in the surgical management of prostate cancer, including robotic assisted radical prostatectomy and/or focal therapy. The appointee will join the existing team to care for patients from the local community as well as tertiary referrals for complex urological conditions.

The Urology Department at Imperial has 14 consultants and sees approximately 26,000 outpatients and undertakes approximately 5,000 surgical procedures per year at the two main sites (Charing Cross and St Mary’s). In addition to general urology surgery, all consultants have subspecialist skills.

The Department faces three Clinical Divisions within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is committed to working closely with each to achieve the mission of the Academic Health Science Centre, namely to make it one of the top five global academic health science centres channelling excellence in research to provide world class healthcare for patients within the next 10 years. The main clinical focus for this appointment will be the Division of Surgery, Cancer and Cardiovascular (SCC).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will form part of the urology team focused on the diagnosis and treatment of complex conditions

• The post holder will attend the specialist MDT for Prostate Cancer and will be part of the post-MDT outpatient clinic.
• The post holder will be expected to take an active role in managing patient pathways, this will include undertaking regular clinics and operating lists.
• The post holder will help to train junior specialist trainees and to actively contribute to fortnightly departmental education meetings.
• During a twelve-month period the appointee can expect to see all common urological problems and pathologies, and in addition will see a variety of more unusual and general urology conditions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full JD is provided-

• ·       To provide outpatient consultations for patients
• ·       To provide urological prostate and general operative surgery, this can include utilising operating lists when other consultants are on annual leave
• ·       To take part in the on the Consultant Urology on call rota. The department operates a Consultant of the Week model.  During the on call week the post holder will be free of their usual elective clinical duties.