Consultant Medical Oncologist

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

With the opening of our brand new Comprehensive Cancer Centre (The Dyson Cancer Centre) in April 2024, this is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious oncologist to join our cohesive and committed team. We are recruiting a 10 PA substantive consultant oncology colleague with a specialist interest in Breast and Colorectal cancers. This is a new expansion post where you will be joining a dynamic and friendly team of both established and new oncologists who value teamwork and input into many national roles.

Main duties of the job

The job is 10 PAs with an 8.5:1.5 DCC:SPA split providing full oncological systemic services for patients with Breast and Colorectal cancers. For first-year Consultants, there will be a reduction in Outpatient Clinic commitment with mentoring, including a Trust New consultants induction programme, to enable new consultants to find their feet and build confidence and relationships within the department and wider trust.

Consultants currently provide an out of hours on-call service shared within a 1:8 weeks rota during which they advise the Acute Oncology Service (delivered by three acute oncology nurse practitioners and three junior doctors) during the day, supervise the inpatient ward, and take out of hours calls Monday to Sunday, with a reduction in outpatient clinics during that week. They also support the SpRs covering the Oncology Ward inpatients and helpline at the weekends on the 1:8 rota. With this phase in consultant expansion, the on-call commitment will reduce, and with future expansion of medical oncology posts, the role of Clinical Oncologists in Acute Oncology will be reduced with increased focus on radiotherapy delivery. It is anticipated that new consultant colleagues will undertake approximately 150-200 new referrals per calendar year, depending on demand.

A commitment to CME and maintaining professional expertise is essential. Attendance at meetings and courses to support this is embedded in the department's culture.

About us

At the RUH, we are proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger. A culture of learning, developing, and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• MRCP or overseas equivalent SCE Medical Oncology
• Entry on Specialist Register (or entry expected within six months)
• MD or PhD
• Specific sub-specialist skills and experience required as per job description
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Management and Administrative Experience

• Understanding of clinical governance requirements
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Ability to develop multi-professional team
• Attendance at management training course and evidence of learning from it
• Experience in organising/supervising audit

Teaching Experience

• Experience of supervising junior doctors
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience of supervising SpRs/postgraduate research
• Postgraduate teaching qualification

Research Experience

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• Sound knowledge of Oncology evidence-base in Breast and Skin Cancer
• Evidence of involvement in clinical research
• Personal Research Publications

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary clinical team
• Good interpersonal skills
• Enquiring, critical approach to work with ability to reflect and learn from experiences
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to continuing medical education
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
• Honesty and probity
• Experience in motivating teams
• Experience of conflict resolution

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.