Consultant Urological Surgeon

Responsible to: Chief Executive / Medical Director of Northampton General Hospital Trust and at local level to the Clinical Director for Surgery. The agreed job plan comprises a total of 10 programmed activities (PAs) per week. This consists of 8.5 direct clinical care PAs and a minimum of 1.5 supporting professional activity PAs. The job plan will be reviewed at 6 months to ensure the candidates PAs are adequately provided. The consultants have recently moved to a consultant of the week (COW) on-call model and are freed from elective activities to review emergency admissions and attend a Friday prostate MRI review meeting. Triage of one-stop referrals will be a part of the COW morning duties. The current frequency of consultant on calls is 1 in 7. The job plan job will be subject to agreement between Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and the appointee. There is a strong commitment to ensure equitable working conditions for all consultants. Additional duties such as