Urology, Advanced Breast and CUP Consultant

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated full-time Locum Consultant Oncologist with responsibility in Urology, Advanced Breast and CUP for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. This post will be fixed term for 10 months.

• Manage both oncology emergency and elective patients admitted under the appointee’s care, in conjunction with Consultant colleagues.
• Provide a comprehensive elective and emergency Oncology service in collaboration with colleagues.
• Provide reciprocal cover for periods of leave.
• Take continuing responsibility for the care of patients in charge and ensure the proper functioning of the department.
• Note that duties are subject to periodic review and, if required, alterations will be mutually agreed between the appointee, Consultant colleagues, and the Trust.
• Commit to devoting substantially the whole of the time to the duties of the post and give them priority at all times.

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 for outpatient systemic anticancer therapy delivery. Oncology at NUH runs its own 24-hour admission service with a 20-bed Specialist Receiving Unit shared with Haematology and a Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC). A rapid response triage emergency line is manned by the 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 acute care and providing outreach support at Queen’s Medical Centre.

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

For further details or informal visits, please contact:
Dr Lucy Gossage, Consultant Medical Oncologist —

Emma Beeton - Joint Head of Service