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Location

Sutton, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

The Children and Young People’s Unit of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a modern unit serving the South East of England. It is one of 3 tertiary paediatric oncology centres in London and handles approximately 170 new cases a year and runs an active bone marrow transplant programme.

Applications are invited for appointment to Clinical Fellow's in Paediatric Oncology to start ASAP/in September 2024.

This exciting opportunity will provide the post holders with exposure to a variety of experience in paediatric and adolescent oncology, including day-care, shared-care and neuro-oncology, haemato-oncology, stem cell transplant and palliative care.

This post is particularly appropriate for applicants who have experience in general paediatrics at registrar level and wish to expand their experience in paediatric oncology or senior paediatric oncology trainees wishing to consolidate their experience.

You will be part of our team of clinicians, including training grade doctors, in the Unit and you will be part of the on call rota. Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (or equivalent) is desirable. Eligibility for GMC registration is required.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 3,900 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits and learning and development opportunities. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

The fellow will be expected by the end of the post to be:

- Competent in the initial management of the more common childhood
cancers.
- Competent in managing infection in the immunocompromised child.
- Understand and be competent in the prescribing and administration of
chemotherapy.
- Become familiar with the more common treatment protocols used in
treating childhood malignancy.
- Develop improved communication skills especially in the area of breaking
“bad news”.
- Become competent at performing lumbar punctures and safe
administration of intrathecal chemotherapy.
- Train in performing bone marrow aspiration and trephines.
- Develop an understanding of the practical management of paediatric
palliative care.
- Take part in the unit’s research activities, focusing on multi-centre
collaborative chemotherapy and radiotherapy trials.
- Complete at least one audit project under consultant supervision.

Excellent office and library facilities are provided including a department library and the facilities of the Institute of Cancer Research.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 Mar 2024

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