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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Oncology Consultant

West Midlands On-site 10+ yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 5,573 employees£114k – £151k / year
Systemic Anti Cancer TherapyInpatient CareOutpatient CareMultidisciplinary Team (MDT) WorkingAcute Oncology

Requirements

Requires GMC Registration with a license to practice or Specialist Register status, along with MRCP and FRCR (Clinical Oncology) qualifications. Candidates should have experience in oncology subspecialties such as Breast, Lung, Urology, or Hepatobiliary.

Job Description

Job Summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is recruiting to a Colorectal and Upper GI Locum Consultant Oncologist posts (10 PAs) to join a large, dynamic and forward thinking oncology service.

The successful post holders will join an established and supportive consultant body delivering high quality systemic anti cancer therapy across multiple hospital sites. Tumour site subspecialty interests will be discussed at interview; however, experience in Breast, Lung, Urology or Hepatobiliary oncology is particularly welcomed. One of the three posts will be delivered predominantly at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust under an established service level agreement.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop a long term consultant career within a major cancer centre with strong MDT working, active clinical trials and close links to academic and research partners.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

  • Deliver specialist inpatient and outpatient oncology care, including independent consultant led clinics
  • Prescribe and manage systemic anti cancer treatments in line with Trust protocols
  • Participate fully in tumour site multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings across the Trust
  • Contribute to Acute Oncology services and inpatient ward attending commitments
  • Participate in the consultant on call rota (1 in 14)
  • Support undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and clinical supervision
  • Engage in clinical governance, audit and service development activity
  • Contribute to and support clinical research and trial recruitment, with opportunities to act as Principal Investigator
  • Develop subspecialty interests and, where appropriate, undertake additional leadership roles within the department

About Us

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.

Job Description

For further details pertaining to the nature of this role, please find attached fully detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GMC Registration with licence to practice OR GMC Specialist Register (or within 6 months of getting CCT)
  • MRCP
  • FRCR (Clinical Oncology)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Karen Hope

Karen.Hope2@uhb.nhs.uk

07584175726

Pay scheme

Hospital Medical and Dental

Band

Consultant

Salary

£113565.00 to £150569.00 Yearly

Contract

Fixed Term

Duration

12 Month(s)

Working pattern

Full-Time

Reference number

304-EP-1097556

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Attachments

Job Description

JDPS Oncology.pdf – 894KB Opens in a new window

Education

Professional CertificatePostgraduate Degree

Skills

Systemic Anti Cancer TherapyInpatient CareOutpatient CareMultidisciplinary Team (MDT) WorkingAcute OncologyClinical ResearchClinical TrialsClinical GovernanceAuditClinical SupervisionColorectal OncologyUpper GI OncologyBreast OncologyLung OncologyUrology OncologyHepatobiliary Oncology

About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.

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