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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide, to a high standard, the full range of specialist diagnostic, treatment and care to patients requiring urology services, as outlined in the proposed programme
• To organise, manage and be responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the Somerset Urology Service
• Except in emergencies, or where otherwise agreed with your manager, to be responsible for fulfilling the duties and responsibilities and undertaking the Programmed Activities set out in the Job Plan, as reviewed from time to time
• Responsibility for the associated duties set out in of the Terms and Conditions
• The purpose of including agreed personal objectives in the Job Plan is to set out in clear and transparent terms what you and your clinical manager have agreed should reasonably be achieved in the year in question. These objectives are not contractually binding in themselves, but you have a duty to make all reasonable efforts to achieve them
• To provide, with Consultant colleagues (as appropriate), a service in the specialty to the hospitals so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Locums are not normally employed to cover the absence of Consultants who are away on leave. The number of Consultants who are away on leave at any one time will be agreed in line with the Trust specialty policy. During the absence of colleagues on leave, Consultants are expected to provide agreed levels of cover
• You will be required to travel between sites ie THH and MVH, including when on-call
• Where emergency work takes place at regular and predictable times, your clinical manager will seek to schedule it as part of the Programmed Activities in your Job Plan schedule. You will also be required to participate in an on-call rota to respond to less predictable emergencies
• The Trust will provide secretarial support and an adequately equipped office, including IT facilities
• To provide a general Urology service, in collaboration with other multidisciplinary medical, nursing, technical staff and other staff
• Teaching of Junior Staff Medical Students, APH and other professionals
• To provide supervision and training to Junior Hospital Doctors
• To participate in clinical audit, evidence–based practice and Clinical Governance within the Department
• To participate actively in continuing professional development (CPD).