Job overview

In response to the increasing emergency demands of patients in the local community and the increasing number of referrals to the cancer pathway and benign conditions, the Trust has invested in a consultant-led, rather than a consultant-supervised clinical service as well as adhering to the London standards of Emergency care, including daily ward rounds for emergency admissions.

We are seeking to appoint a 6th Consultant within Urology department to join our multidisciplinary team and provide a consultant led service to the population of NMUH.   

The 6th Consultant Urologists will be taking part in a 1 in 6 on-call rota with prospective cover.  In keeping with London Emergency standards and to maintain continuity of care, all patients will review daily by the on-call consultant. 

This post is for 10 Programmed Activities (8.5 PAs direct clinical care and 1.5 PAs supporting professional activities). There is an expectation that by taking on other Trust-wide Service and Quality roles, 1 additional SPA will be allocated in place of a DCC. This would be subject to Divisional agreement.

Applications for less than full time working and job-sharing would be considered.

Main duties of the job

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their clinical manager in line with the Job Planning Guidelines in force in the Trust. Once agreed with the Clinical Manager, job plans are finally signed off by the Medical Director or delegated Associate Medical Director. An indicative job plan for this post is provided below which will normally be re-assessed after 3 months of appointment to ensure it meets the needs of both the applicant and the service.

Job plans are reviewed annually, usually following an Appraisal meeting. Applicants are encouraged to study the provisions of the Consultant Contract for England 2003 under which this post is offered.

On-call frequency will be 1 in 6 including weekends (STC) and includes weekend ward rounds to comply with London Emergency Surgical Standards. Unpredictable work is carried out from home, returning to work within 30 minutes as dictated by the caseload.

Working for our organisation

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.

Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ just over 3,000 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.

The Edmonton Infirmary opened in 1910 and replaced the Union Workhouse that had been founded on the site in 1842. It was renamed as North Middlesex Hospital in 1920. In 2011 our new building opened placing all of the hospital under a single roof for the first time. In 2013 our new maternity and neonatal unit were added.

We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.