Lung and Renal Oncology Consultant

The post will be based at Nottingham University Hospital, City Hospital Campus, with outpatient clinics at the City Hospital and at Kings Mill Hospital.

More information including an indicative timetable for the post is featured in the job description.

None of these tumours sites will be single-handed practice but will involve working along-side colleagues already specialist in each tumour site.

The speciality serves a resident population of 1.1 million and currently sees approximately 5,000 new patients each year (at City Hospital and King's Mill Hospital); providing a comprehensive range of non- surgical oncology services to the East Midlands.

The Oncology Service has four dedicated oncology inpatient wards with 66 beds, which includes a dedicated Teenage and Young Adult Unit and its own oncology outpatient department. There are two outpatient systemic therapy wards with 35 chairs and six beds as well as satellite clinics at King's Mill Hospital with a further 11 chairs dedicated to outpatient systemic anticancer therapy delivery. Oncology at NUH runs its own 24hr admission service with a 20 bed Specialist Receiving Unit which it shares with Haematology and a Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC). A rapid response triage emergency line is manned by our nurse led Cancer Admission Triage Team (CATT) using the UKONS telephone triage system. Oncology has invested in a high calibre acute oncology nursing team supporting the acute care of cancer patients admitted to city hospital campus as well as providing outreach support at Queen's Medical Centre.

The current Oncology consultant team of 12 medical oncologists and 27 clinical oncologists provide site specialist care in multi-disciplinary teams. There is an established Medical Oncology Higher Specialist Training programme (9 posts), a highly successful Academic training programme (ACFs & ACLs) and

Professional Registration

Essential: - Full GMC registration Eligible to be included on the Specialist Register CCT expected within 6 months of interview date

Professional Qualifications/Development

Essential: - MRCP or equivalent FRCR

Desirable: - Research publications in peer review journals

Clinical Skills/Experience

Essential: - Experience and special interest in Renal, Melanoma and CUP; - Experience in prescribing and managing patients with systemic anti-cancer therapy

Management Skills

Essential: - Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential: - Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.; - Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.

Practical Requirements

Essential: - Ability to travel between City Hospital Campus and Kings Mill Hospitals