Locum Consultant Medical Oncology in Urological and Lung Cancers

Locum Consultant Medical Oncology in Urological and Lung Cancers NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Main area Medical Oncology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract 12 months (Fixed term) Hours Part time - 8 sessions per week (8PA) Job ref 200-MC-470-CA

Site St Georges University Trust Town London Salary £113,565 - £150,569 PA Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/:59

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George's, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4's '24 Hours in A&E' programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John's Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people's own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Job overview

Fixed term 12 months Locum post , less than full time (8 PA) Consultant Medical Oncologist with specialist interest in Urology & Lung cancer. Within the Oncology department, the post-holder will work alongside the Urology oncology consultants (Dr Mehran Afshar and Dr Doraid Alrifai ) and work alongside the Lung oncology consultants (Dr Jason Chow, Dr Doraid Alrifai & Dr Tim Benepal ). The post-holder's mentor for this new post will be Dr Doraid Alrifai to help integrate the post-holder into St George's Healthcare - potentially a new trust - particularly important if he/she is a new consultant transitioning from Specialist Trainee status. Mentorship meetings will be formalised protected time and will occur weekly for six weeks then monthly and will be shared with Dr Jason Chow, Care Group Lead.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached JD for further details regarding the post. Break down of PA, other programme activities, regular meetings and proposed time table.

Working for our organisation

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. In addition to acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's Healthcare serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide and co-ordinate the Medical Oncology management of patients with urology and lung cancer to ensure best practice is maintained, working closely with the Medical Oncology Consultant Colleagues and together with Surgeons, Pathologists, Radiologists and Clinical Oncologists.
• To support and, with their Medical Oncology Consultant Colleague, oversee the care of the inpatients under the care of the Oncology team.
• To support urology and lung MDT together with the urology and lung oncology teams as well as working with the wider multidisciplinary team members.
• To support the Acute Oncology Service.
• To support the Ambulatory Unit with consultant availability and review for nurse-led service.
• To provide advice on medical oncology aspects of treatment and care for colleagues in other specialities within the department, St George's Healthcare and General Practitioners.
• To participate in and support the multidisciplinary oncology team which includes Clinical Oncologists, Surgeons, the relevant junior team, Specialist Nursing Staff, Therapists, Dietician, Social worker, Palliative Care and Counselling for patients and families.
• To contribute to the ongoing research projects using the clinical and / or laboratory facilities available.
• To participate in each of the multidisciplinary meetings reviewing all relevant histology and radiology.
• As a senior member of the medical team, the postholder will provide leadership and support for the effective development of the service discussed within operational policy meetings.