Consultant Urological Surgeon

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and credible senior clinician to provide system-wide leadership for specialised urology cancer services across Lancashire & South Cumbria. As the single accountable clinical lead, you will shape the future model of care for kidney, bladder and prostate cancer services, ensuring high-quality, safe and sustainable care across the full patient pathway. Working closely with provider organisations, commissioners and system partners, you will lead the implementation of a networked model of care, support delivery of national service specifications, and provide visible clinical leadership for service transformation, quality improvement and performance oversight.

• Lead clinical transformation across multiple provider organisations
• Influence strategic service configuration and pathway redesign
• Drive consistency, quality and equity of care across the system
• Provide assurance to senior system leaders, commissioners and governance forums
The role is responsible for ensuring services function effectively across linked MDT structures spanning primary care, local MDTs, specialist MDTs and palliative care teams., Provide strategic clinical leadership for specialised urology cancer services across the Lancashire & South Cumbria system
• Lead implementation of the agreed service model and support compliance with the relevant NHSE service specification
• Chair or oversee system-wide governance, MDT and quality forums as required
• Drive improvement in cancer standards, clinical outcomes, workforce sustainability and patient experience
• Work collaboratively with clinical, operational and executive leaders across multiple organisations to deliver change at scale
  
  A GMC-registered Consultant Urologist, or equivalent senior specialist with relevant expertise
• Substantial experience in kidney, bladder and prostate cancer care
• A credible and collaborative clinical leader with experience of MDT working and service improvement
• Able to influence across organisational boundaries and work effectively with senior stakeholders
• Experience of system leadership, network development or service reconfiguration would be advantageous
What success will look like
• A clear and effective system-wide governance and MDT framework is in place, A GMC-registered Consultant Urologist, or equivalent senior specialist with relevant expertise
• Substantial experience in kidney, bladder and prostate cancer care
• A credible and collaborative clinical leader with experience of MDT working and service improvement
• Able to influence across organisational boundaries and work effectively with senior stakeholders
• Experience of system leadership, network development or service reconfiguration would be advantageous
What success will look like
• A clear and effective system-wide governance and MDT framework is in place
• Progress is made towards full compliance with specialised service standards
• Variation in access, performance and outcomes is reduced across providers
• The service model is clinically robust, sustainable and aligned to system priorities, GMC registered Consultant Urologist (or relevant specialist)
• Expertise in kidney, bladder and prostate cancer management
• Demonstrable experience in Clinical Leadership
• Demonstrable experience in MDT Working
• Demonstrable experience in Service Transformation
Desirable criteria
• System or network leadership experience
• Experience of service reconfiguration programmes
• Leadership or management qualification, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work., East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospital.
We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services, and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and Uro-Gynaecology Surgery. Our Blackburn site is the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire other than Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The Emergency Department at Blackburn is the only ED for East Lancashire and is a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma Network working closely with the Trauma Centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The ED is supported by Urgent Care Centres at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington. We have day and night Air Ambulance helicopter landing facilities., The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

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• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.