Clinical Fellow in Urology | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	03 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£52,656 - £73,992 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 January 2026
Location:	Manchester, M20 4BX
Company:	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7658952/413-MD-C2025-24749-DM

Summary

The job is a full-time post without on-call with an effective start date of February 2026. The job plan will include theatre, outpatient and cystoscopy sessions and participation in MDTs. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in clinical research and in the surgical educational activities at the Christie.
We are looking for a candidate with good general surgical experience with core skills in Urology, along with 4 years of full-time post-graduate training, at least 2 of which in a specialty training programme. The candidate should be someone who has evidence of teaching activity over the last 12 months and a desire to be involved in teaching. With previous senior fellow level experience.
This post is for 40hours per week assisting in delivery of a high-quality tertiary referral urological cancer service including:
• Prostate cancer diagnostics and surgical management (robotic)
• Testis cancer (retroperitoneal surgery)
• Soft tissue sarcoma (robotic/open surgery)
• Penile cancer and andrology (penile prosthesis)
• Renal and Adrenal cancer (robotic/open surgery)
• “Late Effects” service- surgical management of the complications of cancer, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, including Genito-Urinary reconstructive surgery
• Core urology
• Research

This post will provide an excellent opportunity for senior trainees and clinicians to gain experience in a large comprehensive cancer centre. The duties will revolve around support for the North-West penile cancer, complex retroperitoneal and pelvic cancer teams. In addition the post holder will assist our tertiary referral service for prostate diagnostics. The post holder will support the Consultant Urological Surgeons, work alongside other junior doctors and liaise closely with senior medical colleagues. The remainder of the appointee’s professional time will be deployed on other clinical duties, administration, and teaching. The candidate will be expected to participate in research with a view to completing a national/international presentation +/- publication during the post.
The role will be responsible for:
• Rotating to Diagnostics Clinics
• Be a part of the Team for level II/III Urological Cancer Surgery
• Must Participate in Research
• Pre-operative preparation and post-operative care for patients
• Active participation in regular audit, SMDT and Research meetings

Applications are invited for this post in the department of Uro-Oncological Surgery at the largest single site cancer hospital in Europe. We are looking to recruit a dedicated Uro-Oncology Clinical Fellow Doctor with a view to potential long term commitment. The successful candidate will join a team of Uro-Oncological surgeons and work in the largest cancer hospital in the UK.
The department consists of two inpatient wards (38 beds), an Oncology Critical Care Unit, 5 operating theatres, and the Integrated Procedures Unit.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Urology Team consists of;

Prof N W Clarke (Pelvic/Retroperitoneal/Sarcoma surgery)
Mr V A C Ramani (Robotics/Pelvic/Retroperitoneal surgery)
Mr M W Lau (Robotics/Pelvic/Penile surgery)
Prof V K Sangar (Pelvis/Penile surgery/Sarcoma surgery/Andrology)
Mr A Parnham (Penile surgery/Andrology)
Mr J Oates (Pelvic/Robotics/Retro-peritoneal/Sarcoma surgery)
Mr A Gulamhusein (Robotics/Retroperitoneal/Sarcoma surgery)
Mr P Christopoulos (Penile Surgery)
Mr T Lee (Pelvic surgery/Retro-peritoneal/Sarcoma surgery)
Mr A Sachdeva (Robotics/Prostate Cancer/Research)

3 Specialty Doctors (including this post)
2 Deanery approved training posts (shared with Salford Royal Hospital and Manchester Foundation Trust)

The appointee will be based at The Christie Hospital and will provide supported work in both ward and outpatient settings, oncological and andrological procedures in theatre, and research.

The post holder will support the Consultant Urological Surgeons, work alongside resident doctors and liaise closely with senior medical colleagues. The appointee’s professional time will be deployed flexibly in appropriate areas: clinical duties, administration, teaching, research, clinical audit etc. Detailed elements of the job plan arrangements are to be agreed with the successful applicant when in post.



Continuing Professional Development
The Trust supports the requirements for continuing professional development (CPD) as laid down by the GMC and surgical colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

Role Planning
Provisional Job Plan for illustrative purposes

Daily ward rounds 8-9am
Week 1



Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8 am

WR

WR

Research / Team meeting



Ward

AM

Admin





SPA/

Research

Clinic (outreach)

See below

Theatre(VKS/ASP)

Diagnostics/Research

Lunch



MDT

PM

Theatre (outreach)

See below/Team work/ Research



On call Commitments

This roledoes not requireparticipation in the on-call rota


This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.