Junior Clinical Fellow in Urology Job at Salisbury Full Time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity that is ideally suited to a senior SHO or junior registrar level trainee who wants to gain more clinical experience with a chance to develop research and quality improvement skills. This is a replacement post with our last five fellows having all successfully moved on to national training number posts.

Salisbury Urology department includes 8 consultants, 6 resident doctors, 3 FY1 doctors and 7 urology specialist nurses. In addition to general urology we also undertake robotic surgery, tertiary female, and reconstructive surgery, HoLEP and complex stone surgery (PCNL). The Duke of Cornwall Spinal Injury Centre is based in Salisbury Hospital and covers the south and southwest of England with an 11 million patient catchment. You will have the opportunity to work alongside our neuro-urology consultants to provide urological assessment and care for these patients.

This post offers dedicated 1:1 teaching in outpatients, video-urodynamics, theatres, and endoscopy. There would be an expectation that the post holder contributes to the urology on-call rota at a middle grade level participating in Reg of the week covering the urology on-call 1 in 5 or 6 weeks.The current out of hours on-call commitments are one Saturday 24 hr on call every 5 weeks with no other night or evening on calls. All on calls are supported by consultant cover.

Please note:Applicants must have both full MRCS, NHS and 2 years UK experience (no clinical attachments)

Main duties of the job

This post is ideally suited to a senior SHO or junior registrar level trainee who wants to gain more clinical experience with a chance to develop research and quality improvement skills. This is a replacement post with our last five fellows having all successfully moved on to national training number posts.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk