Consultant Paediatric Urologist

Main area Paediatric Urology Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (On-call 1:8 Category A with 5% supplement.) Job  

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Nottingham University Hospital Town Nottingham Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 08/05/2026

Consultant with a responsibility in Paediatric Urology for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and involvement in outreach services.

This is a substantive post. It will help in consolidating the Paediatric Urology and Paediatric Surgery Service in Nottingham and help provide Paediatric Surgery services in peripheral centres.

It is hoped that the post holder’s primary elective commitments in Nottingham will be Paediatric Urology to support the service provided by the other Consultants. The post-holder will work between Nottingham and by arrangement support outreach services, which currently take place in Derby, Burton-on-Trent, Chesterfield, King’s Mill, Lincoln and Boston. The appointee will provide elective sessions and contribute to the emergency on‑call commitments and hot weeks in Nottingham.

During the hot‑weeks, the post-holder will be on only one site (QMC Campus of NUH) for the duration of the week.

The Directorate is pro‑active in the development of protocols for the treatment of paediatric illnesses, both medical and surgical. These are evidence based and each protocol is updated every two years. Protocol review meetings are held monthly. Protocol development occurs as a cross‑town initiative with parallel protocols at each site.

Nottingham Children’s Hospital is based at Queen’s Medical Centre and provides a comprehensive range of specialist services for children in Nottingham, together with tertiary paediatric and neonatal services to the adjacent areas of Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire (Trent SHA catchment area), surgical services for Stoke on Trent in the Midlands and neurosurgical services for Leicestershire. We also provide supra‑regional services for paediatric spinal surgery, rheumatology, nephro‑urology and cystic fibrosis.

Paediatric cardiac surgery and hepato‑biliary surgery are not resourced locally.

The Childrens Hospital is situated in East Block on D and E floors, with outpatient departments on B floor and comprises:

• Eight wards - 121 Beds, including critical care
• An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities,
• A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
• A large Hospital school.
• The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development).
• A 22-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (currently being expanded as part of the Maternity Neonatal Redesign project)
• A separate children’s Emergency Department sees in excess of 40,000 children per year and a new purpose built facility has been built as part of the Accident and Emergency extension plans (situated on A floor).
• 2 outpatient areas on B Floor, South and East
• Main theatres on C Floor

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details, including a purposed job plan.

• Full GMC registration
• Eligible to be included on the Specialist Register
• CCT expected within 6 months of interview date

• FRCS (Paed Surg) or Equivalent

• Approved training & Experience in Paediatric Urology and Minimal access surgery in a Tertiary Unit
• Certification and Experience in Urodynamics
• Experience in Paediatric Urolithiasis
• Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
• APLS or equivalent

• Able to develop, present and ope rationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
• Able to work in a team

• Able to work flexibly in a changing health service

• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
• Able to teach…