About this role
Job summary The Consultant Urologist must provide senior clinical leadership in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with urological conditions. The role involves delivering consultant-led inpatient, outpatient, theatre, and emergency care; managing complex and high-risk cases; supervising and supporting junior doctors and the multidisciplinary team; and contributing to clinical governance, service development, and quality improvement to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care.
Main duties of the job Provide senior clinical leadership in the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients with urological conditions. Deliver consultant-led inpatient and outpatient care, including specialist clinics relevant to expertise (e.g. benign urology, oncology, endourology).Undertake and lead operative and procedural activity, ensuring high standards of care and patient safety. Provide senior review of complex and high-risk patients, including timely decision-making and escalation. Participate in the consultant on-call rota, providing senior emergency cover and out-of-hours clinical leadership. Take overall responsibility for clinical decision-making and outcomes for patients under care. Ensure compliance withclinical governance, NICE guidance, Trust policies, and national standards. Lead and participate inmorbidity and mortality reviews, incident investigations, and learning processes.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
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Job description Job responsibilities Provide senior clinical leadership in the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients with urological conditions. Deliver consultantled inpatient and outpatient care, including specialist clinics relevant to expertise (e.g. benign urology, oncology, endourology).Undertake and lead operative and procedural activity, ensuring high standards of care and patient safety. Provide senior review of complex and highrisk patients, including timely decisionmaking and escalation. Participate in the consultant oncall rota, providing senior emergency cover and outofhours clinical leadership. Take overall responsibility for clinical decisionmaking and outcomes for patients under care. Ensure compliance with clinical governance, NICE guidance, Trust policies, and national standards. Lead and participate in morbidity and mortality reviews, incident investigations, and learning processes.
Person Specification
Professional Experience Essential
Expressed interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education
Desirable
A specialist interest to complement the existing interests of the department
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Lakin Road
Warwick
CV34 5BW
Employer's website https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)