Job description
As part of our commitment to patients and delivery of a world class service for all we have created theUHCW Improvement (UHCWi) System in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle; this involves a structured approach to removing waste and putting the patient first using a lean managementsystem and methodologies. Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices andmethodologies of UHCWi. You are expected, where identified, to attend and complete relevant training and development opportunities to support this. This may include Lean for Leaders, Advanced Lean Training, and the Human Factors Programme, amongst others. Full attendance and completion of identified courses is considered essential and a prerequisite for this post.Clinical basic 40 hours per week. Inpatient and Day surgery theatre sessions and outpatient clinics, care of inpatients, administrative work, teaching junior staff and medical students, urology middle gradeon call.Urology services, emergency and elective, continue to evolve rapidly. Special interests of the department include: urodynamics/urogynaecology, oncology, andrology, endo-urology, Robotic and standard laparoscopic Urology. A comprehensive range of endoscopic and laparoscopic equipment is available, along with 2 dedicated Holmium lasers. We have state of the art MRI-USS fusion workstations (Hitachi and Koelis) as well as LATP and regional saturation template biopsy service.We provide LATP training for the West Midlands. A Da Vinci X and two Xi robots are shared across one of the most diverse Robotic Surgery Programmes in the UK. As well as Robotic Radical Prostatectomy, Radical cystectomy with intracorporeal diversion and radical partial nephrectomy we collaborate with the colorectal and gynaecological oncology teams to provide Robotic exenteration.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As part of our commitment to patients and delivery of a world class service for all we have created theUHCW Improvement (UHCWi) System in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle; this involves a structured approach to removing waste and putting the patient first using a lean managementsystem and methodologies. Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices andmethodologies of UHCWi. You are expected, where identified, to attend and complete relevant training and development opportunities to support this. This may include Lean for Leaders, Advanced Lean Training, and the Human Factors Programme, amongst others. Full attendance and completion of identified courses is considered essential and a prerequisite for this post.Clinical basic 40 hours per week. Inpatient and Day surgery theatre sessions and outpatient clinics, care of inpatients, administrative work, teaching junior staff and medical students, urology middle gradeon call.Urology services, emergency and elective, continue to evolve rapidly. Special interests of the department include: urodynamics/urogynaecology, oncology, andrology, endo-urology, Robotic and standard laparoscopic Urology. A comprehensive range of endoscopic and laparoscopic equipment is available, along with 2 dedicated Holmium lasers. We have state of the art MRI-USS fusion workstations (Hitachi and Koelis) as well as LATP and regional saturation template biopsy service.We provide LATP training for the West Midlands. A Da Vinci X and two Xi robots are shared across one of the most diverse Robotic Surgery Programmes in the UK. As well as Robotic Radical Prostatectomy, Radical cystectomy with intracorporeal diversion and radical partial nephrectomy we collaborate with the colorectal and gynaecological oncology teams to provide Robotic exenteration.