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Job overview

The Department of Urology is sited in the purpose-built Urology unit on the Castle Hill Hospital Site. The facilities house a centralised urology service linking a 28-bed ward with a day procedures area. There is also a separate acute assessment area/ambulatory ward. The day services area includes cystoscopy, urodynamics and lithotripsy suites. Outpatient facilities are provided at the Castle Hill Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary and East Riding Community Hospital sites. Urology day-case surgery takes place within the stand-alone Day Surgery Unit at Castle Hill Hospital.  

There are currently seven Consultant Urologists within the department.  They work closely as a team with each consultant providing a general urology service and having special interests covering most aspects of adult urological care. The Department has had an established robotic surgical programme since 2015, treating prostate, bladder and renal cancer.

The Department is supported by a strong and dynamic Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Specialist team, consisting of nine nurses who undertake a variety of roles within the department. There are 3 Senior Clinical Fellows and three Speciality Trainees from the Yorkshire rotation that comprise the middle grade rota.

Main duties of the job

This post is a locum post to provide specialist pelvic uro-oncology service within a team of three pelvic urological cancer surgeons in the department. The post-holder will aim to ensure delivery of the Faster Diagnosis Standard, 62 day referral to treatment and 31 day decision to treat to treatment cancer  targets for patients.

The department is a high-volume centre for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy, performing over 200 prostatectomy procedures in 2023. The Trust has a two-theatre robotic suite for multi-speciality use. There are two Da Vinci^TM surgical systems, one with dual console for surgical training. The department has recently appointed two Surgical Care Practitioners for table-side surgical assistance.  It is intended that the post-holder will work with the existing robotic surgeons to further develop the robotic-assisted prostatectomy service and robotic-assisted radical cystectomy service. The service covers referrals for specialist cancer surgery from North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust and York District Hospitals NHS Trust.

In addition to specialist cancer services, the post-holder will help to deliver the 18-week target for new referral to treatment for patients with general urological conditions here at Hull University Teaching Hospitals. The post-holder will participate in a 1:8 on call rota.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.