Senior Urology Fellow in Robotic and Cancer Surgery

St Georges University Hospital Urological Cancer Centre, London, is delighted to offer a senior Urological Robotic Fellowship commencing on 1st Oct 2025 for a period of 12 months. There is a possibility to continue for a further 12 months at the discretion of the Educational Supervisor and the Urology Care Group lead. This fellowship is a recognized Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). It is well established and has successfully trained numerous registrars and consultants to achieve Robotic Urology experience and competency, who have subsequently gone on to set up robotic urological programs in their practice., The training is divided into three possible streams: prostatectomy, renal surgery and cystectomy /reconstruction and the training programme can be tailored to the fellow's needs.
The aims of training will be: competency in planning Urological Robotic Surgery; competency in operative steps according to published Modular Surgical Training for Laparoscopy and Robotics. Depending on which stream the fellow has chosen, they should be able to perform radical prostatectomy, radical nephrectomy and pyeloplasty independently and gain experience in partial nephrectomy, simple prostatectomy and cystectomy in the first year.
Audit and research will be a part of the training contract. In our experience this is integral to reflective learning and the programme has a duty of care to patients and the trust to be transparent in reporting outcomes, both surgical and patient related.

Working for our organisation
The friendly and supportive department includes 7 robotically trained Consultants who perform a comprehensive range of robotic procedures. The department performs approximately 550 Robotic Urological Procedures per year. These are radical and simple prostatectomy; partial and radical nephrectomy; nephroureterectomy; radical and partial cystectomy and intracorporeal neobladder/ileal conduit formation; radical pelvic lymphnode dissection for pelvic cancers and penile cancers; reconstructive surgery (pyeloplasty, ureterolysis, ureteric reimplantation, ureteric stricture repair with buccal graft; pyelo and ureterolithotomy). The robotic team also support the expansion of the female and functional robotic program (robotic colposuspension, sacrocolpopexy, CLAM cystoplasty and Bladder Neck AUS) and work collaboratively with/mentor paediatric urology, gynaecology and general surgery.

This is a clinical post where the appointee will join the team 5 Registrars, 5 Fellows, 3 core trainees, and 3 physician associates. The appointee will participate in the Specialist Registrars' rota (1 in 10) and thereby be involved in the Emergency/General Urological workload in the dept. Within the cancer team the successful candidate will work alongside another Registrar assigned to the cancer service. As there will be considerable exposure to urological oncology, andrology, neuro-urology as well as minimally invasive surgery including laparoscopy/robotics, it would be necessary that the appointee has experience in these fields. Previous research experience is not essential, but the appointee must be committed to a well-disciplined scientific approach and computer skills are essential.