Consultant Clinical Oncologist - Urology and Breast

The Oncology department at North West Anglia Foundation Trust is looking for a highly motivated and dynamic consultant to join our team in providing high quality patient care, in Urology, and Breast tumour sites. Other tumour sites would be considered as the second site, along with either Urology or Breast.

The Oncology department at Peterborough City Hospital, and the Woodlands Centre at Hinchingbrooke hospital offer a comprehensive service in collaboration of other oncologists, nursing teams, administrative staff and the Radiotherapy department in delivering high quality care and treatment in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. We look forward to welcoming you to join our team.

• To work with NWAFT colleagues to strengthen existing Urological and breast cancer services, supporting multidisciplinary meetings and providing high quality care for cancer patients.
• Active participation in clinical audit, continuing professional development and research as appropriate. There is access to a study leave budget for appropriate CPD activities. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the Trust and CBU Clinical Governance processes including the dedicated monthly half days.
• Out-of-hours participation in consultant on-call rota comprising telephone advice for Peterborough City Hospital on a 1:10 basis. It is expected that the on-call consultant will do a remote ward round review daily at the weekends and bank holidays.
  
  This has been facilitated by the introduction of electronic inpatient notes. Oncology patients are admitted at this time under the care of the consultant physician on-call and treated according to protocol. The on-call arrangements may change over time with the implementation of the 7-day working initiative. There will be consideration for taking time off in lieu
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development activity, locally and nationally.
• To develop and participate in collaborative initiatives, studies and trials.

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

• See and treat Urology and Breast cancer patients, joining a supportive team.
• To collaborate with colleagues at the Regional Cancer Centre (Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trusts (CUH ), Cancer Units and other agencies to ensure optimum quality of care for cancer patients including referring patients for brachytherapy or to the phase I trials unit at CUH.
• Active participation in clinical audit, continuing professional development and research as appropriate. There is access to a study leave budget for appropriate CPD activities. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the Trust and CBU Clinical Governance processes including the dedicated monthly half days.
• Out-of-hours participation in consultant on-call rota comprising telephone advice for Peterborough City Hospital on a 1:10 basis. It is expected that the on-call consultant will do a remote ward round review daily at the weekends and bank holidays. This has been facilitated by the introduction of electronic inpatient notes. Oncology patients are admitted at this time under the care of the consultant physician on-call and treated according to protocol.
  
  The on-call arrangements may change over time with the implementation of the 7-day working initiative. There will be consideration for taking time off in lieu.
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development activity, locally and nationally.

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Clinical Oncology
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems in Oncology
• Ability to take full and independent…