University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust (UHB) is recruiting to a substantive 10PA Clinical Consultant Oncologist to join their dynamic team. The successful post holder will join an innovative team of Consultant Oncologists and specialist Oncology care. Tumour site sub-specialities can be discussed at interview, however experience in breast, lymphoma and urology tumour site would be favoured. The successful post holder will have experience in clinical oncology, planning and delivery radiotherapy to the relevant tumour sites. The post holder will be responsible for independently running clinics, prescribing treatment using the Trusts PICS system, undertaking ward rounds and MDT.
Proposed Job Plan - please see proposed job plan within detailed Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Duties of the post
The site specialist interests will be agreed on acceptance of the post but will require specialist oncology tumour site experience and radiotherapy delivery.
Clinical
The appointee should be able to demonstrate experience and specific interest in the management of breast, lymphoma and urology, as well as experience in RT. The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop disease specific areas of interest, working alongside the current Oncology team. In keeping with the department's ambition as a teaching hospital, the appointee will have the opportunity to engage in research and would be encouraged to utilise world class expertise based on Campus within the University of Birmingham (UoB), the Cancer Research Clinical Trials Unit and the Institute for Translational Medicine to progress the research strategy under the umbrella of Birmingham Health Partners.
Inpatients
The appointee will participate in the attending and on-call rota , supported by and working with clinical team's trust-wide. They will be responsible for managing a cohort of inpatients and providing specialist liaison advice.
Outpatients
The appointee will be expected to participate in number of clinics per week, predominantly dealing with their respective sub-specialties as per job plans, but also consideration for other subspecialist workload could be considered, depending on applicant's experience to date. The delivery of outpatient activity will include opportunities to support clinical trial recruitment and PI roles within the department.
There will be the integrated weekly multidisciplinary team meeting, plus monthly quality meetings, educational sessions, journal clubs and mortality and morbidity meetings.
For the ward attending commitments, the appointee will be expected to provide reciprocal cover for periods of leave.
*GMC Registration with licence to practice
*MRCP
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Charles Fong
Charles.Fong@uhb.nhs.uk
01213713558
Hospital Medical and Dental
Consultant
Permanent
Full-Time
13770
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Mindelsohn Way Birmingham West Midlands B15 2TH
This vacancy is closed to applications.