Job summary
Our Oncology division is looking for a forward thinking
Clinical or Medical Oncology Locum Consultant to join the Royal Surrey to provide Breast and Melamona
expertise to the division.
This
is a fixed-term 10PA post based at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, with
clinical commitments at our outreach
partner Frimley Park Hospital. The post holder will provide an Oncology breast service
for the patients in the Frimley catchment area, plus Guildford. The successful candidate will also provide
expertise in Melanoma for the Oncology patients within our region. This role will offer Chemotherapy, plus Radiotherapy expertise
for these patients.
Main duties of the job
To provide Oncology expertise in the management and
treatment of patients with Breast and Melanoma Tumours
To be part of the MDT and clinical team
To be part of the radiotherapy MDT and clinical team
To play a full part in the out-of-hours On-Call service for
Oncology
To provide cover for fellow Consultant colleagues in
respect of periods of leave and organise leave in
conjunction of Consultant colleagues according to Oncology department policy
To take part in medical audit and research as appropriate
To provide expertise for patients, participate in the
local MDTs and training programmes
To participate in clinical trials as
appropriate, in co-operation with the Alliance Research Lead
To ensure that the requirements of
clinical governance are met
To ensure that there are adequate
arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of your patients to be
able to contact you when necessary
To participate in CME and audit
projects as appropriate
Please refer to the full job description attached for further information
About us
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.
Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.
There has never been a better time to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This remit for the post will require a
well-organised individual with good team-working skills and the ability to
complete work within agreed timescales in co-operation with all staff groups
and with support from senior colleagues.
There are close links with the Royal Surrey and Frimley Park Hospital which holds multidisciplinary cancer team
meetings for major tumour types supported by Oncologists based at St. Lukes
Cancer Centre. Both Trusts, as well as providing high quality cancer services,
are busy district general hospitals with accident and emergency departments on
both sites, and full general medical and surgical teams.
The Royal Surrey Hospital Foundation Trust provides specialist Cancer and Haemato-Oncological care, including complex Cancer surgery, to the population of the South West Surrey and Hampshire, a catchment area of approximately 1.4 million. Non-surgical oncological treatment for these patients is provided at the St. Lukes Cancer Centre, which is an integral part of the Trust. There are close links with surrounding cancer units and the Surrey Clinical Research Centre.
Here at St Lukes, we aim to provide first class, high quality care for all of our patients in a friendly and professional setting. Our services have received national recognition and praise and our patients benefit from the latest and most innovative treatments available, delivered by a team of committed and highly skilled staff. You will be joining our team of 27 Oncologists, supported by a team of Specialist Registrars, Specialty Doctors, SHOs, AHPs and Specialist Nurses.We currently offer supervision and support for those seeking career development, we would welcome further discussions on the opportunities we offer if this is of interest.
Please find the full job description attached
Job description
Job responsibilities
This remit for the post will require a
well-organised individual with good team-working skills and the ability to
complete work within agreed timescales in co-operation with all staff groups
and with support from senior colleagues.
There are close links with the Royal Surrey and Frimley Park Hospital which holds multidisciplinary cancer team
meetings for major tumour types supported by Oncologists based at St. Lukes
Cancer Centre. Both Trusts, as well as providing high quality cancer services,
are busy district general hospitals with accident and emergency departments on
both sites, and full general medical and surgical teams.
The Royal Surrey Hospital Foundation Trust provides specialist Cancer and Haemato-Oncological care, including complex Cancer surgery, to the population of the South West Surrey and Hampshire, a catchment area of approximately 1.4 million. Non-surgical oncological treatment for these patients is provided at the St. Lukes Cancer Centre, which is an integral part of the Trust. There are close links with surrounding cancer units and the Surrey Clinical Research Centre.
Here at St Lukes, we aim to provide first class, high quality care for all of our patients in a friendly and professional setting. Our services have received national recognition and praise and our patients benefit from the latest and most innovative treatments available, delivered by a team of committed and highly skilled staff. You will be joining our team of 27 Oncologists, supported by a team of Specialist Registrars, Specialty Doctors, SHOs, AHPs and Specialist Nurses.We currently offer supervision and support for those seeking career development, we would welcome further discussions on the opportunities we offer if this is of interest.
Please find the full job description attached
Person Specification
Personal Attributions
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to work with colleagues as part of a team
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty
- Effective communication skills
- Enthusiasm
- Attention to detail
- Approachability
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Effective organiser/prioritisation skills
Desirable
- Active interest in research, audit, clinical governance and teaching
- Commitment to clinical innovation
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a license to practice with the GMC
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP
- Higher medical qualification
- Broad Oncology experience in a variety of tumor sites
- Understand the principals of Clinical Governance
- Evidence of experience of/commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development
- Experience and interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- CPD: Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy/national guidance/CQC/and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Desirable
- Teaching/Education Qualification
- Higher Degree
- Recent experience of Oncology care
- Relevant experience of management of Oncological emergencies
- Experience of research
- Understanding of business planning and commissioning
- Experience/interest in service modernisation and improvement
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Management, Leadership and Initiative skills
- A clear understanding of NHS guidance relevant to Oncology, and the opportunities and challenges posed
- An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to:
- Empower others
- Lead through change
- Influence strategically
- Collaborative working
- Drive for improvement
- Integrity
- To have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties
Desirable
- Computer literate: Email, MS Office and Internet
- Use of digital dictation systems
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrable skill to work together to serve our community through delivering safe and excellent clinical care
- Value diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Treating others with compassion, empathy and respect
- Share information openly and effectively with patients, staff and relatives
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, increase efficiencies and seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
Person Specification
Personal Attributions
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to work with colleagues as part of a team
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty
- Effective communication skills
- Enthusiasm
- Attention to detail
- Approachability
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Effective organiser/prioritisation skills
Desirable
- Active interest in research, audit, clinical governance and teaching
- Commitment to clinical innovation
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration and a license to practice with the GMC
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP
- Higher medical qualification
- Broad Oncology experience in a variety of tumor sites
- Understand the principals of Clinical Governance
- Evidence of experience of/commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development
- Experience and interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- CPD: Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy/national guidance/CQC/and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Desirable
- Teaching/Education Qualification
- Higher Degree
- Recent experience of Oncology care
- Relevant experience of management of Oncological emergencies
- Experience of research
- Understanding of business planning and commissioning
- Experience/interest in service modernisation and improvement
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Management, Leadership and Initiative skills
- A clear understanding of NHS guidance relevant to Oncology, and the opportunities and challenges posed
- An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to:
- Empower others
- Lead through change
- Influence strategically
- Collaborative working
- Drive for improvement
- Integrity
- To have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties
Desirable
- Computer literate: Email, MS Office and Internet
- Use of digital dictation systems
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrable skill to work together to serve our community through delivering safe and excellent clinical care
- Value diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Treating others with compassion, empathy and respect
- Share information openly and effectively with patients, staff and relatives
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, increase efficiencies and seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
