Senior Clinical Fellow Urology | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,068 - £57,570 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Luton, LU4 0DZ |
| Company: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7301013/418-M-GS-261 |
Summary
An opportunity for a Clinical Fellow within the Urology Department has arisen. The post will provide a great opportunity to receive further specialist experience in Urology. The constantly evolving and dynamic urology department is looking for a motivated individual to support current services .The Urology department is a cohesive and harmonious team consisting of five consultants, seven registrars including deanery trainee's. This is for a fixed term 12 months contract
· Provide day-to-day care for urology inpatients, including conducting ward rounds and liaising with multidisciplinary teams.
· Assess and manage patients in the emergency department and outpatient clinics under consultant supervision.
· Participate in pre-operative and post-operative care, including ward-based procedures such as catheter changes and nephrostomy management.
· Assist in the operating theatre, gaining exposure to a range of urological procedures.
· Have a continuing responsibility for the clinical care of patients in his/her charge and for the continued functioning of the department.
· Deliver a high quality responsive urological service to the patients who use it.
· Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients under urology
· Maintain his/her professional development with all available training opportunities and ensure compliance with mandatory training
· Responsible for the urology patient flow in ED
· The post holder is encouraged to attend all teaching events and participate in clinical
audits.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
The on-call commitment at Luton will be on a 5 day week (08:00-17:00) 1 in 6 Rota, with prospective cover for annual and study leave. Including one night per week (non-resident),1in 6 weekend covering 48 hours.
All non-elective admissions are initially the responsibility of the on call consultant, with ongoing care handed over to the receiving consultant at the end of the hot week.
The department has weekly MDT team meetings and in-house teaching and also has a department quality and safety meeting once a month, with case presentations, discussion and learning objectives met. The appointee is expected to lead the teaching and training schedules for the junior doctors.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Jul 2025