Locum Consultant - Urology

Job Overview

The Urology Department are looking for an enthusiastic, forward‑thinking Locum Consultant in Urology Surgery to join the team.

We want to invest in applicants who are motivated and dedicated to providing high standards of patient care and see personal and professional development as a priority. You will be expected to manage the growing challenges of healthcare in the UK as we move forward.

We have two hospital sites – Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex – each with fully equipped theatre facilities, outpatient clinics, and an endoscopy unit. On‑call commitments are currently 1:8 across both sites with middle‑grade cover.

• Deliver outpatient clinics, diagnostic procedures (e.g., flexible cystoscopy) and inpatient and day‑case operating lists.
• Attend multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, participate in audit and governance activities of the department.
• Ensure compliance with commissioning standards for patients presenting on a 2‑WW or 62‑day cancer pathway through prompt diagnosis and treatment.
• Work with existing consultants and colleagues in management to meet NHS targets for patient waiting times.
• Support subspecialisation within the department by appropriate cross‑referral to colleagues.
• Provide consultant care at an early stage to patients presenting with presumed urological problems.
• Contribute to inpatient care, rotating responsibilities with colleagues.
• Promote early and safe discharge of patients.
• Commit to the organisation and delivery of training; deliver outpatient clinics, diagnostic procedures and theatre lists to support the service.
• Provide high quality care to patients and adhere to GMC Good Medical Practice.
• Develop and maintain required competencies, attend direct clinical care activities and involve patients in decisions about their care.
• Research, teaching and training: provide high quality teaching to undergraduates and other health‑care professionals; contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, students and other staff groups.
• Act as a clinical supervisor and appraiser as delegated; collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance research and audit portfolio.
• Ensure mandatory training up to date, participate in continuing professional development, and apply to study leave budget when required.
• Support clinical, quality, operational and financial management: improve clinical efficiency, quality of outcomes, financial management and operational efficiency.
• Ensure clinical governance: review outcomes, participate in audit, incident reporting, comply with NICE, NHS guidance and keep protocols up to date.
• Provide leadership, teamwork, strategy and business planning: chair meetings, promote conflict resolution, support diversity and equality, represent the Trust at external meetings.
• Adhere to Trust guidelines on leave, recruitment, induction of junior staff and participation in team objective setting.

Ideal candidates will be on the GMC Specialist Register or within six months of obtaining their CCT award at the time of interview.

Specific competencies or interests in sub‑specialty areas will be supported.

Enquiries about the functioning of the Planned Care Directorate can be made to Mr Hama Attar, Clinical Lead ().

The post sits within the Division of Planned Care; clinical directors are managerially accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations and professionally accountable to the Divisional Medical Director.

Our Trust is rated "Good" by the Care Quality Commission and has an "Outstanding" rating for "use of resources" by NHS Improvement.

We invest around £10 million a year in our estate and are expanding adult and neonatal critical care facilities.

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