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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
About
Airedale Hospital was opened in 1970 by Prince Charles and is an award winning hospital providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire - stretching as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.
- They employ 2,900 staff and have 400 committed volunteers
- In a year they treat 25,000 inpatients, 26,000 non-elective patients and 150,000 outpatients
- Our Accident and Emergency Department sees and treats over 51,000 patients every year
- Around 2,600 babies are born each year at the hospital
They provide services from their main hospital site and at other locations across the community, in sites owned by their Primary Care Trusts. The PCTs commission health services from them for the patients within their GP practices and the three main PCT’s referring patients to us are – NHS Bradford and Airedale, NHS North Yorkshire and York and NHS East Lancashire.
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Consultant - Urology (YC72)
Closed for applications on: 25-Nov-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 25-Nov-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton, Keighley
- Postcode
- BD20 6TD
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum plus on call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Urology
- Interview date
- 09/12/2024
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
Would you like to be part of an award-winning NHS Trust located on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales? Then we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our nationally recognised Urology Team.
We are looking for a substantive Consultant in Urology to join us within the Surgical Directorate at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust and NHS is facing a time of transformation, challenge and opportunity. The Urology team is developing its service as part of the lighthouse project, introducing new treatments for BHP and is looking to further develop its urology investigations unit. We need a Consultant Urologist with vision and leadership skills to join our current team of enthusiastic surgeons to strengthen our team for the future.
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- To deliver a high-quality Urology service to our local population.
- Maintain the provision of elective and emergency Urology care as part of the Urology team and provide comprehensive management for Urology patients.
- Possess experience and skills across a range of Urological techniques and be competent with the following procedures including, but not
limited to:
o Basic Endoscopy skills
o TUR Prostate
o TUR Bladder
o Basic diagnostic work up and therapeutic interventions for common conditions
o Emergency Bladder management
o Endoscopic treatment of urinary tract stones
o Sepsis management
o Child and Young Adult Acute Scrotal Pain - Participate regularly in clinical governance activities, teaching and in the cancer unit peer review process
- Participate in our objective achieving the local and national access waiting time targets including referral to treatment (RTT)
- Comply with the GMC requirements of Duties of a Doctor & Good Medical Practice
Working for our organisation
The post will be based at Airedale Hospital. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust serves a population which extends over a wide and diverse geographical and demographic area, from the Yorkshire Dales, to the small market town of Skipton, Ilkley, and urban Keighley. The hospital lies between Keighley and Skipton, only 10 miles from the multicultural city of Bradford and within an hour from Leeds.
Airedale is a national leader in the development and provision of Telemedicine and will benefit from a new hospital build due for completion by 2030.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job information pack for further details and the full job description and person specification.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration
- • Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) / CESR / European Community Rights
- • An appropriate higher “Urology” surgical qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Sufficient experience to provide Acute and Elective Urology services at Consultant Level across a range of Urological techniques
- • Experience / knowledge relevant to local and national access waiting time targets including Cancer Waiting Time (CWT) Targets and Referral To Treatment (RTT) Targets
Teaching Slills
Essential criteria
- • Good communication skills
- • Evidence of participation in, and demonstrable commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within the Trust.
- • Ability to contribute to teaching
Desirable criteria
- • Distance learning or other modern learning methods
- • Attendance at “training for teaching” course.
- • Attendance at “assessment and appraisal” course.
- • Demonstration of Interest in Educational methods (Cert.Ed., etc)
Academic Achievements / Research
Essential criteria
- • Ability to perform critical literature appraisal
- • Evidence of recent and current research.
- • Demonstrable knowledge of the up-to-date literature
Desirable criteria
- • Publications in peer reviewed journals
Clinical Governance / Audit
Essential criteria
- • Experience of participation in regular clinical audit.
- • Ability to undertake audit and implement key actions
Documents
- ANHSFT - Urology Consultant 2024 (PDF, 332.3KB)
- Values & Behaviours (PDF, 681.3KB)
- Privacy Notice (PDF, 70.0KB)
- Links (PDF, 207.1KB)
- Guidelines for completing an Application Form (PDF, 70.3KB)
- Information for Applicants (PDF, 285.5KB)
- Probation Policy (PDF, 323.9KB)
- Airedale Welcome Brochure (PDF, 3.5MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Philip Koenig
- Job title
- Consultant Urologist – Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292136
- Additional information
Mr Sanjay Rajpal, Consultant Urologist
Mr Omer Baldo, Consultant Urologist
Mr Hassan Khan, Consultant Urologist
Ms Heidi Salminen, Consultant Urologist
Miss Laura Whittaker, Consultant Surgeon - Clinical Director for Surgery
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