Consultant Medical Oncologist – Breast Cancer & Melanoma

To provide tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital's cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Rachel Pearson via email at rachel.pearson1@nhs.net.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

Essential: - Primary Medical Qualification; - Full GMC Registration; - Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Clinical Experience

Management and Administration Experience

Essential: - Involvement with management and project leadership within Oncology; - An understanding of Clinical Governance

Desirable: - Attendance at a course to develop management and leadership skills; - Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines

Teaching

Essential: - Experience of supervision of junior medical staff; - Experience of participation in undergraduate/postgraduate teaching.

Desirable: - Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills; - Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Research

Essential: - Evidence of productive research activity; - Up to date with GCP training

Desirable: - Relevant publications in the last three years; - Experience of being an Associate PI; - MD/PhD

Audit

Essential: - Evidence of participation in audit / service development

Desirable: - Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit; - Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement