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Location

Romford, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time consultant clinical oncologist predominantly based at Queen’s Hospital in Romford. This is a substantive vacancy.

The successful applicant will preferably have a specialist interest in the treatment of gynaecological cancers plus another tumour site of their choice, and have full registration with the General Medical Council with the licence to practice.

Clinical oncology at Queen’s Hospital is exciting and rapidly evolving. We are a 3 linac Varian site and were the first UK centre to go live with daily online adaptive radiotherapy using ETHOS which we recently upgraded to utilise Hypersight imaging. Surface guided systems are currently being installed with plans to go live in early 2024. We are members of Varian’s adaptive intelligence consortium which facilitates global collaboration.

We look forward to the successful applicant helping us to further develop our adaptive and stereotactic radiotherapy program as well as joining us in presenting abstracts at conferences in the UK and beyond.

There are also opportunities for you to develop further your interests in research, leadership and teaching.

We are a friendly and supportive team into which we would love to welcome you.

If you are the right person for this role and would like an informal discussion, please contact Dr Amy Ward or Dr Simon Ball (tel: 01708 435 000 ext 2078).

The post holder will be expected to provide to a high standard the full range of specialist diagnosis, treatment and care to patients requiring oncology services as outlined in the proposed program, including the following:
• Clinical oncology management of gynaecological malignancy (supported by the wider team including clinical nurse specialists, oncology middle grade doctor, specialty trainees in oncology and one other consultant medical oncologist)
• Clinical oncology management of one other tumour site
• To provide input into the Acute Oncology Service
• To work with and support the established multi-disciplinary site-specific teams
• Outpatient chemotherapy and inpatient clinical opinions
• To participate in the out of hours on-call service (1:12)
• To take an active role in research and clinical trials
• To contribute actively to clinical governance within the department
• To support and develop quality improvement projects in the department
• Flexibility to undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the Clinical Leads
• To actively participate in the department’s teaching programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies

To participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD and ensure successful revalidation when required.

Under the leadership of our Chair Jacqui Smith and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, we provide care for the residents of three of the most diverse London boroughs. More than half of our 7,500 strong workforce are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and most live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.

Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals, operating from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London.

As we recover from Covid-19, we’re proud to be leading the way nationally in reducing the time our patients wait to get the treatment they need. The pandemic provided the drive for our teams to innovate and change.

We know we have more work to do to improve waiting times for urgent and emergency care, and our performance against the four-hour emergency access standard remains challenged, in comparison to many other London trusts.

We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We’re also pleased to be part of the NEL Cancer Alliance.
• Clinical oncology management of gynaecological malignancy (supported by the wider team including clinical nurse specialists, oncology middle grade doctor, specialty trainees in oncology and one other consultant medical oncologist)
• Clinical oncology management of one other tumour site
• New patient numbers approx. 200-250 in line with RCR guidelines
• To provide input into the Acute Oncology Service; this service is led by a team of three acute oncology nurses who field calls and review patients. The acute oncology ward round/consultant supports the AOS nurses in this role, and undertakes ward reviews and offers oncology advice as necessary
• To work with and support the established multi-disciplinary site-specific teams
• Outpatient chemotherapy and inpatient clinical opinions
• To participate in out of hours on-call service (1:12) off-site for advice on oncology inpatients and to offer oncology advice to other teams• On-call Monday to Friday covers after 5pm until 9am the following morning
• On-call on Saturday and Sunday covers the entire weekend supported by an on-site oncology registrar 9am-5pm, and the medical team overnight. There is an expectation of weekend consultant led ward rounds of new admissions/any unwell patients. Acute admissions are taken by the medical team out of hours but oncology review may be requested the following day. This would only be needed for acutely unwell, complex patients
• To take an active role in research and clinical trials
• To contribute actively to clinical governance within the department
• To support and develop quality improvement projects in the department
• Flexibility to undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the Clinical Leads
• Actively participate in the department's teaching programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies
• Participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD and ensure successful revalidation when required
• Appropriate desk space and secretarial support will be available

Programmed Activities

You and the Clinical Lead will agree a prospective job plan that sets out your main duties and responsibilities, a schedule for carrying out your Programmed Activities, your managerial responsibilities, your accountability arrangements, your objectives and supporting resources.

Indicative job plan

Type of activity

Number of programmed activities

Programmed activities for direct clinical care

Multidisciplinary meetings (MDTs)

1.5

Radiotherapy planning (including 0.5 for peer review)

2.0

Outpatient clinics (including 0.25 admin per clinic)

3.0

Inpatient reviews

0.5

Administration (signing letters and systemic anticancer drug prescribing)

1.0

On-call

0.5

Supporting programmed activities

Job planning, appraisal, continuing professional development, clinical governance including audit, mandatory training

1.5

Undergraduate teaching

Postgraduate training

Research

Total

10

Proposed weekly timetable

Type of Work

Start time and finish time

Monday

Admin (1PA)

SPA (1PA)

09.00 AM – 1.00 PM

2.00 PM – 6.00 PM

Tuesday

MDT (0.5PA)

RT review clinic (0.5PA)

Gynae Local MDT (0.5PA)

Inpatient work (0.5PA)

09.00 AM – 11.00 AM

11.00 AM – 1.00 PM

1.30 PM – 3.30 PM

3.30 PM – 5.30 PM

Wednesday

Gynae Network MDT (1PA)

Follow-up clinic (1PA)

08.00 AM – 12.00 PM

1.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Thursday

Brachytherapy (Barts Hospital) or Radiotherapy planning (1PA)

Radiotherapy planning (1PA)

08.00 AM – 12.00 PM

1.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Friday

New patient clinic (1PA)

SPA (0.5PA)

09.30 AM – 1.30 PM

2.30 PM – 4.30 PM

Total:

SPA 1.5PA, can be flexible in time and place

DCC 8.5PA, including 0.5PA for on-call

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Apr 2024

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