Urology Consultant | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | Westcliff on Sea, SS0 0RY |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7696167/390-SUR-SO-5184-A |
Summary
Join Our Expert Urology Team at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust!
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a Consultant Urological Surgeon based at Southend University Hospital, part of our dynamic and forward-thinking Urology service.
You’ll be joining a department that has recently redesigned its pathways to deliver outstanding patient care across three sites under a single clinical and management structure. This role involves general urology duties, including day case surgery, transurethral procedures, and the option to develop an Endourology subspecialty.
Our Southend site is the regional complex Urology cancer centre, equipped with two Da Vinci robotic systems, while Chelmsford also boasts robotic capability. Complex stone, andrology, and paediatric urology are based at Broomfield, ensuring a diverse and collaborative environment.
We offer:
• Emergency lithotripter service and combined Southend/Broomfield rota
• Advanced BPH treatments: HoLEP, TURIS TURP, Rezum, UroLift, PAE
• Comprehensive haematuria clinics and prostate diagnostics, including local anaesthetic transperineal biopsies
On-call is 1:11 prospective, supported by 24/7 middle-grade cover and a separate pelvic oncology rota. Our consultant-of-the-week system ensures elective work pauses during on-call weeks for better work-life balance.
If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional care, we’d love to hear from you!
Please refer to the attached Job Specification for full details of what the job will require and details of each Job Plan for the week.
Please see below and overview of the main duties entailed within the role:
To provide outpatient urology clinic services; this may include minor procedures
To perform independent elective and emergency operating including day case surgery
To undertake speciality clinics and participate as a core member in Urology MDTs.
Any responsibility which relates to a special interest;
Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures;
To provide consultant level Urology on call duties (1 in 11). This will include on site daytime cover and post take ward round, and to contribute to the pelvic urology on call rota.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Are you looking for an exciting Consultant role using your unique qualities? Then we want to hear from you.
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.
This advert closes on Sunday 18 Jan 2026