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At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do to offer a high quality patient experience in a caring and supportive environment. This aligns with our vision of providing safe, caring and effective services because people matter.

This is an opportunity to join an NHS organisation that inspires its staff to innovate, with support and encouragement to continually develop. In return you will have the opportunity to inspire exemplary support for our patients.

We expect all of our staff to demonstrate the Trust values of Care, Respect and Responsibility.

CARE

We believe healthcare is better when provided by supported and dedicated staff, so if you are innovative, forward thinking and dedicated to high quality patient care come and join our amazing team.

RESPECT

Our Trust gives its staff a voice and empowers its employees to be involved in service innovation and change as well as achieving their personal goals and aspirations. We want staff to always feel valued and respected and know they can make a difference to our patients.

RESPONSIBILITY

As a responsible employer we strive to promote a healthy and safe environment and to ensure a positive experience for all. We work hard to create a culture of engagement and inclusivity where colleagues believe in and live by our values. We engage with our staff in an open and transparent way by listening, being honest and working together to achieve our aims. We firmly believe in the ability of our colleagues to help us shape our services so that our values are at the centre of everything we do.

Be part of our journey of continuous improvement, come and join us at the Dudley Group.

Contact

Address: Russells Hall Hospital; Pensnett Road; Dudley; West Midlands; DY1 2HQ
Contact Number: 01384 456111

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Ref: 253-0226-7798432 Vacancy ID: 7798432

Consultant Urologist - Robotic Renal Surgery

Accepting applications until: 20-Mar-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 20-Mar-2026 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Russells Hall Hospital
Cyfeiriad: Pensnett Road
Tref: Dudley
Cod post: DY1 2HQ
Major / Minor Region: Birmingham & The Black Country

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Oriau

Full time
Annualised hours

10 sessions per week

Salary

Cyflog: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Urology

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We are seeking a highly motivated Consultant Urologist with advanced robotic surgical skills, particularly in robot-assisted partial and radical nephrectomy, to join a growing urology service with core urology skills in flexible cystoscopy, haematuria, and LATP as well as robotic complex urology work.

Desirable and essential criteria

Essential Criteria:

GMC registered

·FRCS Urol and CCT urology

·Evidence of formal training and competence in robotic urological surgery

· Experience in robot-assisted partial and radical nephrectomy

Desirable criteria:

· Post CCT fellowship

Ability to independently perform complex renal cancer surgery

Experience of working within a renal cancer MDT

Experience contributing to development or expansion of a robotic renal

Interest in service development, audit, and outcomes reporting in robotic surgery

Surgery, Urology & Vascular Directorate

The Trust has a clinically led structure. The Surgery, Urology & Vascular Directorate forms part of the Surgical Division, which is under the leadership of Mr Babar Elahi (Chief of Surgery) Kelly Pettifer (as the Acting Director of Operations) and Sara Davis (Divisional Chief Nurse)

The Surgery, Urology and Vascular Directorate itself is under the Clinical Directorship of Mr Atiq Ur Rehman, with Charlie Heaton as Directorate Manager (Emily Bennett as the acting DM at present) and Holly Murphy as Matron, Urology is under the Clinical Leadership of Mr A Abedin, a consultant Urology Surgeon. Mr Ali Shahzad is MDT and renal MDT lead.

JOB SUMMARY

Consultant Urology Renal Consultant

Key Responsibilities:

They will provide specialist consultant-level care in robotic renal surgery, including robot-assisted partial and radical nephrectomy, and will contribute to the delivery of a high-quality, consultant-led renal cancer service. They will be responsible for providing senior clinical input into the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and timely discharge of patients admitted under the care of the urology team. The post holder will work closely with the renal MDT to ensure timely, evidence-based decision-making and will play a key role in maintaining and developing the Trust’s robotic renal surgical capability. They will be a role model to the junior medical staff, providing supervision, support and feedback. They will also ensure that internal processes such as theatre list planning and imaging are co-ordinated and managed in a timely manner.

The post holder will ensure that patients and their careers are involved in the development of their treatment plans, ensuring that they are adequately prepared for surgery where required, and receive regular feedback on their progress and any implications for their future prognosis. They will also provide timely feedback for other clinicians involved in the care of the patient, ensuring seamless transition between secondary and primary care, and feedback to other co-dependent teams.

The specialty of urology is rapidly developing, and the post holder will be expected to contribute to the ongoing development of the emergency and elective service in association with the Clinical Service Lead.

Be part of the Renal surgical team and contribute to multidisciplinary team and work with the service lead towards centralisation of Renal surgical service.

Elective duties

•To deliver robot-assisted renal surgery, including partial and radical nephrectomy, in line with national standards and best practice.

•To contribute to robotic theatre list planning, ensuring optimal utilisation of robotic capacity.

•To support training of trainees and fellows in robotic renal surgery, where appropriate.

•To conduct outpatient and elective day-case and inpatient activity in line with the agreed job plan, and within the scope of the Trust’s clinical and operational policies and guidelines.

•To maintain effective and timely communication with patients and their carers, ensuring that they are actively involved in decisions around their care.

•To maintain effective communication with all other parties involved in the care of the patient, including GPs, community services, consultants from co-dependent specialties and other urological surgeons.

•To ensure that clinical letters and discharge summaries are completed promptly.

• The accurate and timely recoding of assessment and treatment plans in the medical records, which is compliant with Trust standards.

•Flexible provision of cover for planned and unexpected leave of consultant colleagues.

•Active participation and leadership within the Renal Cancer MDT, including presentation of complex cases and contribution to pathway development.

•To attend the weekly urology MDT meeting, and present cases in a clinically appropriate

timescale.

Emergency duties

• To oversee the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing monitoring of all emergency admissions.

• To provide senior decision-making for complex renal and urological emergencies, including post-operative robotic cases.

• Provide clinical leadership in relation to urology patients, ensuring that all patients are reviewed at least once a day, and that management plans are implemented within clinically appropriate timescales.

• Ensure that all urology patients outlying on other wards are reviewed, and that management plans are implemented within a clinically appropriate timescale.

• To oversee theatre list planning to ensure that patients receive treatment within a clinically appropriate timescale, from an appropriately skilled surgeon.

• Overseeing the effective communication of the diagnosis and treatment plans with patients and carers.

• The accurate and timely recoding of assessment and treatment plans in the medical records.

• To provide leadership and supervision of junior doctors during emergency on-call periods.

On-Call Requirements

The post holder is required to participate in on call rota which will increase to a 1:9 rota if approved.

Productivity

Consultants are expected to ensure optimum utilisation of the clinical sessions allocated to them (theatre lists and outpatient clinics), with both time and productivity. All these are measured on the speciality and reported against the peers and National figures using the GIRFT Model Hospital Data.

Consultants are expected to support the delivery of key access targets, including:

· 18-week referral to treatment for admitted and non-admitted patients

· 6-week diagnostic target

· Cancer waiting time standards (31 days for diagnostics and 62 days for treatment)

The six-week policy for annual leave and study leave will be adhered to.

PA details

Proposed Work Programme

The proposed programme of work comprises 10 programmed activities (8.5 DCC and 1.5 SPA), each of which has a nominal timetable value of four hours. The programme above is indicative, subject to change and will involve working flexible sessions to make up the 8.5 DCC PAS. Each clinical commitment is scheduled for 4 4-hour sessions and is eligible for 1 DCC and also allocated 0.25 DCC of associated admin generated from the clinical sessions. The SPA 1.5 SPA which will consist of Wednesday afternoon 1PA and 0.5 flexible. The post holder will have no clinical commitments on Wednesday Morning and may undertake extra sessions depending on the departmental needs. There are no allied health care professionals supervising at this time; however, if it’s required in future, it can be allocated to the SPAS.

Direct clinical care (DCC)

DCC relates directly to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, and includes outpatient and elective theatre activities, and multi-disciplinary meetings about direct patient care. PAS that take place between 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday, weekends or on public holidays will have a timetable value of three hours.

SPA Details

Activities contained within Supporting Professional Activities (SPAS) are activities that underpin Direct Clinical Care (DCC). This includes participation in training, medical education, continuing professional development, formal teaching, audit, job planning, appraisal, research, clinical management and local clinical governance activities.

Following discussion in the Trust Joint Local Negotiating Committee, the Trust has clarified that the total number of SPAS will not exceed 2.5 SPAS per week for a consultant on a full-time (10 PA) contract. 1.5 SPA as a minimum will be allocated to cover revalidation activities including CPD. Adjusting the balance between your DCCS and SPAS will not affect your total PAS, which should be agreed upon as part of the job planning process.

SPA time for teaching/training, research, audit lead or clinical lead roles, etc., should be carried out on Trust or NHS premises. These should be agreed upon and specified in the job plan with the allocation of time above the 1.5 SPA for CPD / revalidation, but up to the maximum of 2.5 SPAs in total.

A maximum of 1 SPA about CPD / revalidation per week can be worked flexibly offsite (with the approval of the Medical Service Head / Clinical Director), however, the expectation is that this offsite work should not be regularly timetabled.

1. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

All staff are expected to adhere to policies and procedures in the Trust, which establish standards of good practice. Staff are expected to follow codes of conduct, which are relevant to their profession.

Organisational Values

The post holder will:

Care: You will listen, be respectful and treat others with compassion and kindness.

Respect: You will respect everyone you meet and encourage an inclusive culture where we respect the contribution everyone makes.

Responsibility: You will take responsibility for yourself and your team.

Using AI for jobs applications:

Whilst we encourage the use of technology to help manage time and support innovation. However, it is your responsibility to ensure your application is personalised and clearly reflects your own skills and experiences. While AI can assist with drafting, it should only be used as a support tool. The content must be your own work and accurately represent your knowledge, abilities, and values. Over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in your application being rejected. A common issue arises when we receive multiple applications with identical or overly generic language.

The use of AI during assessments, including interviews, is not permitted unless it has been pre-approved as part of a reasonable adjustment. For digital interviews, you may be asked to provide a 360-degree view of your surroundings on camera and confirm that no additional devices are present. If we suspect AI is being used during an interview, we may pause the process to clarify or adjust our approach to questioning.

Caring for patients demands integrity, honesty, and accountability. We expect your application and participation to be authentic and a genuine reflection of your own experiences and values.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered, dependant upon Job Role and Salary needed to meet the criteria for sponsorship, alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK.

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, check if you’re eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead. It’s cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

RECRUITMENT EQUALITY STATEMENT

We are committed to equal opportunities and want to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and diverse groups. It is essential we understand our demographics, in order that we can monitor our performance as an equal opportunity employer, as well as continuing to embed a culture of inclusivity across the organisation, which supports the active participation and contribution of our diverse staff groups in the Trusts decision making processes . On application the shortlisting manager will not see this criterion and therefore it cannot be part of their decision making. Please ensure you complete your equal opportunities questions for us and help us to make sure everyone is welcome.

The Trust is committed to employing and supporting people with disabilities. It is the Trust’s policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum ‘essential’ criteria as identified on the person specification. To ensure we know you have a disability, please inform us under the appropriate section on the application form. We welcome applications from the LGBTQ+ community and openly encourage people with different sexual orientation, gender identity and expression to apply to join our team. We promise to respect and encourage the use of all pronouns and will not purposefully mis-gender anyone.

We are governed by the public sector equality duties and by our values of Care, Respect and Responsibility to ensure we eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other behaviour that is unlawful, undermines our core values and/or falls short of our Behaviour Framework. We want all of our staff to ‘call out’ any behaviour from colleagues, patients or visitors that constitutes the above and appropriate action be taken.

We will, at every opportunity, advance equality and inclusivity for all staff, at all levels within the organisation, by removing or minimising disadvantage, encouraging participation and taking all relevant steps to meet the needs of anyone who shares a protected characteristic. We will also foster good relations between persons who share a protected characteristic by tackling prejudice and promoting understanding at every opportunity.

We have staff Networks in place to help support staff experience of diverse staff groups and inform us on the actions, interventions and support what we need to put in place to improve the working lives and daily experiences of all colleagues and all teams. Anyone can join the networks and we take pride in having Allies as part of every network within the organisation.

By submitting an application for a position with this organisation, you are declaring that the information given is true and complete, any deliberate omission, falsification or misrepresentation will be grounds for rejecting the application or subsequent dismissal, and where applicable, for positions that requires registration with a professional body, you authorise us to make the required employer checks on your professional registration status.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Please note, preference will be given to at risk employees.

Applicants MUST ensure that they provide details of their referees and their referee email addresses on their application form otherwise their application may not be considered.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in your application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Qualifications, Registration, Knowledge and Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

Relevant professional qualifications
Degree from a recognised University
MRCP (UK)
Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register via one of the following: - Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) - Training/experience in Robotic Renal Surgery

Meini prawf dymunol

Ability to manage and lead the specialist unit if required
Experience of teaching special clinical skills

Relevant knowledge and experience requirements

Meini prawf hanfodol

Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCST/CST
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients and offer expert clinical opinion in the specialty
Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
Ability to advise on the smooth running of specialist services
Ability to prioritise workloads both clinical and non-clinical when subjected to conflicting pressures

Up-to-date knowledge of clinical issues related to speciality

Meini prawf hanfodol

Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
Awareness of current developments and initiatives.

Personal Qualities / Attitude / Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol

Demonstrates an understanding and commitment to the Trust’s vision, values and strategic goals
Committed to the delivery of operational targets
Projects a positive image and able to challenge negativity
Demonstrates a corporate outlook, internally and externally
Able to prioritise and delegate
Committed to improving the patient health care experience and improving Trust performance
Acts as a role model
Able to engage, empower and inspire others to the benefit of the Trust
Demonstrates effective and inclusive communication skills, being able to listen and act appropriately
Responsive to feedback and able to take other people’s opinions on board
Demonstrates ability to build effective multi-disciplinary team working within own speciality and others, within the organisation and across the wider healthcare community
Excellent interpersonal skills
Demonstrates respect for others and acts with integrity
Able to resolve complex problems effectively
Able to meet and/or exceed goals and targets whilst delivering high quality patient care
Teaching experience
Self awareness
Reliable
Has a confident and optimistic approach
Self motivated
Dedicated to service delivery and improved patient care
Positive and flexible approach to work
Professional attitude
Commitment to personal and professional development
Computer literate

Meini prawf dymunol

Innovative
Change management experience
Able to deal with conflicting demands
Effective time management
Methodical, organised approach to work
Demonstrates a commitment to the development of all staf
Demonstrates attention to detail
Effective negotiating and influencing skills
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibility at local, regional or national levels

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Enw: Charlie Heaton
Teitl y swydd: Directorate Manager-Surgery, Urology and Vascular
Cyfeiriad ebost: [email protected]
Rhif ffôn: 01384456111
Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais: Working hours are Monday to Thursday 08.00-16.00pm.