Consultant Medical Oncologist

Job summary

The Royal Marsden GI team is looking for 3 substantive Consultant Medical Oncologists to complete our team at our Sutton site. Of the core team of four, two consultants will specialise in upper GI cancers and two will specialise in lower GI cancers.

Main duties of the job:

• Tosupervise (clinical and educational supervision) doctors in training in the GI team and to undertake teaching as appropriate.
• To attend the unit specific MDMs, clinics and departmental meetings
• To lead Inpatient board rounds and reviews on the designated days
• To participate in and support the multidisciplinary care team which includes Medical Oncologists, Clinical Oncologists, Surgeons, the relevant junior team, Specialist Nursing Staff, Therapists, Dietician, Social worker, Palliative Care and Counselling for patients and families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to play a pivotal role in the Acute Oncology Service at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust and the GI service at The RMH for all patients. The post holder will be required to participate in the RMH out-of-hours medical oncology consultant on-call rota. This post holder will support the AOS service at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust providing:

• Management of acutely unwell medical patients
• Management of patients in the Clinical Assessment Unit
• Leadership on the co-ordination and integration of patient care with surrounding Trusts who may be caring for our patients on both an emergency and elective basis
• Telephone support to the Royal Marsden Macmillan Hotline
• Development for the way the Trust provides inpatient management for long stay medical patients
• A key role in junior doctor educational development and leadership

About us

The Royal Marsden is a world leader in cancer research, treatment and education. Together with our academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), we are the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and the only National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre specialising in cancer in the UK.

Our mission is to continue to make a national and international contribution to cancer research and treatment, so that more people are cured and quality of life is improved for those with cancer. The Royal Marsden therefore plays an important role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education and leading-edge treatment.

We have a reputation for delivering high quality performance. We were ranked joint first in the CQC national inpatient survey results, above average in national cancer patient experience survey and ranked first amongst teaching hospitals in the UK for our staff survey results.

Predominantly the Trust's workload is from within the South West and West London Cancer Networks but, as a specialist cancer, the Trust has a high out-of-area referral rate for rare cancers, recurrent disease and treatment-related problems including international referrals. The Trust operates a shared care model with St George's Healthcare NHS Trust for paediatric cancer.