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 Consultant Urological Surgeon post is based at the Freeman Hospital and may have spoke commitments in one of our peripheral hospitals.

We would welcome applications from individuals with a subspecialist interest in robotic uro-oncology.

The appointee will join a group of 26 Consultant Urologists based at the Freeman Hospital providing services to Tyneside, Gateshead and Northumberland on a Hub and Spoke model.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

Main duties of the job

The Urology Department has a large fixed bed base between 2 inpatient wards (60 beds) and 1 day case/ short stay ward (20 beds).  Surgery is delivered between 5 Urology Theatres and 1 further theatre in our new Day Case Hospital. Robotic Surgery is based on 2 Intuitive XI systems, with a 3rd system due to be delivered shortly. Robotic surgery is supported by a dedicated team of Surgical Care Practitioners as well a Specialist Nurse Teams. The Urology Department offers almost all Urology Services on one site including complex functional and reconstructive work, complex stones, major Oncology as well as a wide range of benign procedures.

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.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: 
Mr David Rix via email at [email protected].

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.