Consultant Urological Robotic Surgeon

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.The department is looking to appoint a Consultant Urologist with a sub-specialist interest in Robotic Cancer surgery.

It is a highly desirable requirement to have completed a fellowship in Robotic surgery based on the Intuitive platform.

The appointee will join a group of 24 Consultant Urologists based at the Freeman Hospital providing services to Tyneside, Gateshead and Northumberland on a Hub and Spoke model.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit. Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

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., 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 3 Intuitive XI systems, with a possible 4th system being considered. 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.

Average numbers of procedures performed in the department per year are in the region of 200-250 robotic prostatectomies, 40-50 robotic cystectomies with ileal conduit or intracorporal neo bladder and 300 renal procedures robotic, laparoscopic and open including caval thrombectomy.

The Urology research group is well established with a professorial chair, and a dedicated team of Research Urology staff including dedicated research Admin Managers, Research Nurse and grant support. We have close ties with Newcastle University and a number of clinical trial units in the UK. Current research covers a wide range of areas including clinical oncology studies and benign urology.

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.