Job overview
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust is proud to offer exciting opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful parts of the country in a rapidly expanding department. We currently employ 7 consultants, with advanced plans to expand to 9 consultants. The advertised job is a replacement post with a primary interest in robotic assisted pelvic oncology surgery. The urology department are allocated 2.5 robotic sessions per week, it is anticipated the applicant would average between 1-2 sessions per week on average and triple session theatre lists are being considered
Planned AAC Interview date is TBC - However we hope it will be a date in mid- August 2024.
Please keep checking here for updates on the AAC interview date.
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Main duties of the job
The Urology unit at Buckinghamshire provides general and specialist urology care for over half a million population and the area is one of the most rapidly expanding due to an active housebuilding programme in the Aylesbury area. The post generates general urology with a subspecialist interest in Pelvic Oncology as experience allows. There are opportunities to develop links with the neighbouring Oxford University Hospitals who are keen to set up an adolescent urology service and to setup a regional functional robotic surgical service. Experience in DGH level paediatric urology would be very welcome, depending on the candidate’s experience.
The Trust is a provider of surgical treatments for BPH, including bipolar TURP, Urolift, HoLEP, PAE and green light laser prostatectomy. We have a Da Vinci Xi surgical robot and offer a robotic cancer service with upper tract surgery and prostatectomy, specialist stone surgery including supine mini-PCNL. We transitioned to a local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy service a few years ago and these are performed by both doctors and advanced nurse practitioners.
The National Spinal Injuries Centre, a world-famous centre for the management of patient with spinal injury is based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital where all colleagues support the spinal and urology surgeons provide the urological care for these patients.
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
4. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
5. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
6. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
7. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
8. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
9. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable
Person specification
Education /Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
10. MB, BS or equivalent qualifications
11. Full GMC registration
12. Entry on the GMC specialist register in Urology via CCT/ CESR/ European community rights
13. General training in Urological Surgery, FRCS(Urol) or equivalent eg FEBU; CCST in Urological Surgery
14. OR within six months of achieving CCST at the time of interview.
Experience
Essential criteria
15. General training in Urological Surgery specialist level or equivalent.
16. Ability to make good decisions at consultant level.
17. Extensive experience in Urology
18. Experience in reconstructive urological surgery, including any fellowship training
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential criteria
19. Excellent leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant
20. Evidence for surgical and clinical skills in Urology to undertake a consultant role.
21. Good personal and interpersonal skills.
22. Good spoken and written English
23. Communication skills should be highly developed.
24. Experience of teaching doctors-in-training and Undergraduates
25. Experience of clinical audit.
26. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS.
27. Management training and experience.
28. Computer skills.
29. Communication skills training.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
30. Full GMC Registration with licence to practice
31. Ability to travel to and between sites
Trust 'CARE' Values
Essential criteria
32. Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
33. Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
34. Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
35. Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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