Locum Consultant Oncologist - Breast and GI OncologyNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Oncology Department at Whittington Health NHS Trust as a Consultant Medical Oncologist with specialist interests in Breast and Gastrointestinal cancers.

This 12-month fixed-term consultant post has been created to support the continued expansion of our oncology service and represents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious clinician seeking to combine high-quality clinical practice with leadership, education, service development and research.

Importantly, the Trust intends to develop this post into a substantive Consultant position within the next 12 months, subject to the successful completion of the required approval processes. Applicants seeking a long-term career within an innovative London cancer service are therefore strongly encouraged to apply.

The successful applicant will join a friendly and collaborative multidisciplinary oncology team delivering modern systemic anti-cancer therapy in partnership with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The post offers opportunities to develop specialist interests, participate in clinical research, contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education and take on departmental leadership responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Job description

The successful applicant will provide specialist medical oncology care for patients withBreast and Gastrointestinal cancers, delivering systemic anti-cancer therapy through outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary team meetings and treatment planning.

The post holder will:

• Lead specialist Breast and GI oncology clinics.
• Participate in Breast and GI multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Deliver systemic anti-cancer therapy.
• Support the Acute Oncology Service when rostered.
• Contribute to oncology service development and clinical leadership.
• Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
• Supervise resident doctors and contribute to educational supervision.
• Participate in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement.
• Contribute to the growing oncology research portfolio and clinical trials programme.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Whittington Health and UCLH.

There will also be opportunities to develop leadership roles within the department according to the successful candidate's interests and experience

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.