Senior Clinical Fellow in Stone Disease

Job overview

The Urology Department is looking for a well-motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team.  This post is particularly well suited to an experienced resident urologist, with an interest in stone disease, looking to complete their portfolio pathway to CESR.

University Hospital is a tertiary referral centre and provides a comprehensive urological service.  We serve a population in excess of 1 million people in Coventry & Warwickshire (in partnership with George Eliot and South Warwickshire Hospitals). University Hospital is also a designated Major Trauma Centre.

The Stone Service at UHCW performs complex surgery including PCNL, URS and ESWL. Dedicated Stone Clinics run at UHCW, and there is a dedicated Metabolic Stone Clinic with Nephrology. It has access to a range of the most up-to-date endourological equipment for treating stones including mini-PCNL, disposable flexible URS, Flexible and Navigable Suction (FANS) ureteric access sheaths and magnetic ureteric stents. Complex ureteric stricture disease is also managed by the service with options available including balloon dilatation, laser endoureterotomy, Memokath ureteric stents and robotic-assisted ureteric reconstruction.

The Urology department is actively involved in teaching, tutoring and examining for the Medical School.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications or if there has been a change in organisational priorities.

Main duties of the job

The job plan will typically comprise of approximately

• Direct clinical care programmed activities (PAs) and
• Supporting professional activities (SPAs).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of our commitment to patients and delivery of a world class service for all we have created the UHCW Improvement (UHCWi) System in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle; this involves a structured approach to removing waste and putting the patient first using a lean management system and methodologies. Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices and methodologies of UHCWi. You are expected, where identified, to attend and complete relevant training and development opportunities to support this.

This may include Lean for Leaders, Advanced Lean Training, and the Human Factors Programme, amongst others. Full attendance and completion of  identified courses is considered essential and a prerequisite for this post.  Clinical basic 40 hours per week. Inpatient and Day surgery theatre sessions and outpatient clinics, care of inpatients, administrative work, teaching junior staff and medical students, urology middle grade  on call. Urology services, emergency and elective, continue to evolve rapidly. Special interests of the department include: urodynamics/urogynaecology, oncology, andrology, endo-urology, Robotic and standard laparoscopic Urology. A comprehensive range of endoscopic and laparoscopic equipment is available, along with 2 dedicated Holmium lasers.

We have state of the art MRI-USS fusion workstations (Hitachi and Koelis) as well as LATP and regional saturation template biopsy service.  We provide LATP training for the West Midlands. A Da Vinci X and two Xi robots are shared across one of the most diverse Robotic Surgery Programmes in the UK. As well as Robotic Radical Prostatectomy, Radical cystectomy with intracorporeal diversion and radical partial nephrectomy we collaborate with the colorectal and gynaecological oncology teams to provide Robotic exenteration.