Senior Clinical Fellow in Oncology - AOS

Senior Clinical Fellow in Oncology - AOS

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the directorate of Oncology & Palliative Care as a clinical fellow, supporting delivery of care for oncology patients within our dedicated oncology inpatient wards, and in our ambulatory day unit at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT), Charing Cross site. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to develop experience of oncology outpatient clinics, under consultant supervision. We have a dedicated team of 8 consultants leading the acute oncology service, and it is a consultant led service. A key part of this role is to provide teaching, mentorship and leadership for the junior doctors in the oncology service. There are opportunities for service improvement projects and development of oncology experience.

This would be ideally suited for someone who has/is close to completing their acute medical training and interested in specialist training in medical or clinical oncology. The applicant would be expected to complete their training and clinical opportunities in line with their development needs. The successful applicant will have educational and clinical supervision. This post does not have any formal on call commitment, but the applicant would have opportunity to participate in the on call rota if they wished to.

This appointment will be a full time position on a fixed term basis for 1 year.

Main duties of the job

Provide high quality care to patients in oncology services, Research, teaching and training, Performance management, Medical staff management, Governance and Leadership and team working

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Job responsibilities

• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.
• To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by clinical director.
• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
  • Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions
  • Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re admission rates
  • Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team
  • Operational efficiency e.g. admission avoidance, day case review and management
• To participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
• To demonstrate excellent leadership skills within ward team.
• To work collaboratively with all members of the multi disciplinary team and wider ICHT medical community.

Person Specification

• On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
• MRCP part 2 completed
• Completion of core medical training

Audit

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

Clinical Skills

• Excellent team and communication skills
• Experience and competencies in acute oncology emergencies
• IT Skills and computer literacy
• Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority

Teaching and training

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Language

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

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.

Depending on experience £44,170 £67,610 per annum plus London Weighting