Oncology Consultant Practitioner

Oncology Consultant Practitioner

The closing date is 12 March 2026.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly skilled Consultant Clinical Practitioner to join our Oncology Service at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.

This post is a senior clinical leadership role, aligned to the Multi-professional Consultant-Level Practice Capability and Impact Framework (HEE, 2020/2021), offering the chance to shape cancer services across the organisation and wider Integrated Care System.

The successful candidate will provide expert autonomous clinical practice
, system leadership, education, research and service transformation, contributing significantly to improving outcomes for people living with cancer.

The Consultant Clinical Practitioner will work across four core pillars of consultant practice
:

• Expert Clinical Practice
• Strategic and Enabling Leadership
• Learning, Development and Improvement Across the System
• Research and Innovation

You will practise independently as a consultant-level practitioner, managing complex caseloads, influencing system-wide pathways, developing the workforce and leading quality improvement and research initiatives locally, regionally and nationally.

• Provide senior clinical leadership within Oncology and across medicine services.
• Influence commissioning, service redesign and transformation across organisational and system boundaries.
• Maintain effective budgetary control.
• Lead and deliver a multi‑professional education and training strategy
  , including Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Act as educational supervisor for ACPs and support the Trust-wide supervision framework.
• Work closely with universities, HEE and professional bodies to shape curricula and workforce pipelines.
• Lead research, clinical audit and quality improvement programmes within Oncology.
• Publish and disseminate research findings nationally and internationally.
• Use data and evidence to improve pathways, reduce unwarranted variation and support admission avoidance.
• Develop clinical guidelines, policies and standard operating procedures at service and Trust level.

We operate from three main hospitals – Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal – and a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various consultant‑led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non‑life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community service for adults is delivered in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP practices and community hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high‑quality care, advice and support.

Full details of the advertised role and main responsibilities are available in the Job Description and Person Specification documents.

• Extensive leadership: leading teams, developing services, problem solving
• Training to Masters level
• Research, innovation and quality improvement embedded into practice
• System level leadership
• Meets the HEE consultant-level framework
• Doctorate
• Clinical lead of a service

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 a year
, dependent on experience.