Job summary
- Main area
- Urology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (1st October 2027 End Date)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (On Calls)
- Job ref
- 230-48456047-PCD-AB
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewes House
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £104,401 - £115,341 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2026 12:00
Employer heading
Senior Specialist in Urology
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.
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Job overview
Senior Specialist in Urology
10 sessions per week (On Calls)
Fixed term for 12 months
Salary: £104,401 - £115,341 per annum pro rata
Closing Date: Thursday 2nd July 2026
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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#JoinTeamEliot
- The Senior Specialist Grade (Associate Specialist) is a full-time position within the George Eliot Hospital Urology Department and will be a urological surgeon with an interest in General Urology. This post will provide a comprehensive general urology outpatient, inpatient, and diagnostic and day case surgery service for urology patients. Those who are skilled in the surgical management of BPH and other core urology work would be particularly welcomed.
- An in-house training programme exists for CESR, and the department is very enthusiastic and committed to supporting appropriate and desirous candidates to achieve CESR.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Practice:
- Ensure independent decision making to manage urology inpatients in conjunction with the consultant urologist on call of the week.
- Supervise pre-operative preparation and post-operative care for urology patients.
- Perform template/mapping biopsies of the prostate.
- Perform diagnostics clinics, such as flexible cystoscopy sessions.
- Fulfill on-call service commitments as a middle-grade doctor.
- Actively participate in regular audit, surgical multidisciplinary team (SMDT), and research meetings. Surgical Skills:
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- Be able to perform independently and teach registrars core general urological procedures TURP / TURBT / Ureteroscopy / Inguino-scrotal / penile surgery.
- Provide guidance and supervision to junior doctors and surgical nurse practitioners.
- Collaborate with General Surgical colleagues to ensure emergency care provision as this is done in close partnership with General Surgery
Research and Audit
- Actively participate in clinical research, including patient recruitment and data collection.
- Contribute to audit projects, evaluating and improving urological services.
- Stay updated with current research and advancements in urological treatments.
- Participate in research meetings and present findings.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The main role will be to cover the elective theatres and clinics of consultants at an independent level and conduct procedures in Urology Diagnostic and treatment centre supported by the CNS team and Registrars. There will be a 1:4 on call commitment which will be at middle grade level to support the consultants. If needed from a service level, and as per competencies of the candidate, there will be opportunity to “Act Up” as a consultant, in which situation the selected person could part of the on-call consultant rota. This will help in career progression to achieve CESR and consultant level status after undergoing through a formal selection process.
Clinical Practice:
- Ensure independent decision making to manage urology inpatients in conjunction with the consultant urologist on call of the week.
- Supervise pre-operative preparation and post-operative care for urology patients.
- Perform template/mapping biopsies of the prostate.
- Perform diagnostics clinics, such as flexible cystoscopy sessions.
- Fulfill on-call service commitments as a middle-grade doctor.
- Actively participate in regular audit, surgical multidisciplinary team (SMDT), and research meetings.
Surgical Skills:
- Be able to perform independently and teach registrars core general urological procedures TURP / TURBT / Ureteroscopy / Inguino-scrotal / penile surgery.
- Provide guidance and supervision to junior doctors and surgical nurse practitioners.
- Collaborate with General Surgical colleagues to ensure emergency care provision as this is done in close partnership with General Surgery.
Research and Audit:
- Actively participate in clinical research, including patient recruitment and data collection.
- Contribute to audit projects, evaluating and improving urological services.
- Stay updated with current research and advancements in urological treatments.
- Participate in research meetings and present findings.
Teaching and Training:
- Provide supervision and guidance to junior doctors and surgical nurse practitioners.
- Maintain learning logs and participate in continuing professional development activities as per CESR requirements.
- Contribute to the professional development of junior doctors and healthcare professionals through teaching and mentoring.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical training and experience required to offer independent clinical opinion on a range of conditions within the Speciality of Urology.
- Experience of independent clinical management of complex surgical presentations.
- Experience & ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
Desirable criteria
- Sub-specialist Competencies in Andrology or Urodynamics or Minimally Invasive BPH techniques.
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent
- More 5 years’ experience of clinical experience of managing complex Urology conditions at/above Specialty Doctor grade.
Desirable criteria
- Successful in intercollegiate Speciality examination or overseas equivalent.
- Keen and committed to achieving CESR.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service.
- Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities, waiting lists.
- Ability to manage and lead surgical firm
- Ability to manage multi-professional team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit management, Leadership, Quality, Service Re-design, and Improvement with track record in delivering this
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to work under pressure, making safe clinical and non-clinical decisions.
- Good time management
- Good interpersonal skills and collegiality
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses, and other agencies.
- Commitment to continuing medical education.
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national levels.
Other
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising trainee doctors • Ability to teach clinical skills.
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Undergraduates Experience of supervising SpRs.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Afnan Akhtar
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 024 7635 1351
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