The Position
Full time (10 PA's) Locum Consultant/ Specialty Doctor in Oncology.
The Speciality Doctor in Oncology post is part of the Cancer Services directorate, (oncology department) where the post holder will be required to provide a high quality oncology service that aims to provide excellent patient care. The post holder will be expected to manage his/her own work programme within the broad parameters of departmental policies and procedures, and will be responsible for determining the associated work activities using their initiative.
Duties of the post
To see patients in both new and review oncology clinics
To provide routine prescribing of protocol based chemotherapy regimes To deal with both routine and emergency attenders
To work as a core member of the hospital Acute Oncology team including review of patients on our Medical Assessment Units, and patients admitted to outlying wards
To undertake procedures as required for which procedure training will be provided if required, medical assessment for chemotherapy patients during their treatment as part of review clinics and on an ‘as required basis’
To be involved in complex clinical, patient management problems and multi-disciplinary planning treatment – attending cancer MDTs if required
To ensure all dictation of clinic letters is performed within 24 hours (mandatory)
To use the Trust’s Cancer Clinical Database to record all oncology annotations
To contribute to service developments
To participate in continuing medical education and clinical audits
To participate in the consenting and follow up of patients in clinical trials (with the appropriate Consultant supervision)
To provide support to the complaints process (this may include attending complaint meetings with patients, families and their relatives)
To participate in all areas of clinical governance monitoring including reporting, responding to incidents reported, liaising with management re risks that need adding to the cancer risk register
To undertake all mandatory training, including annual safeguarding training (in-house) The Trust encourages the development towards a special area of interest in oncology and involvement in Clinical Governance. The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and will be periodically reviewed and amended with the agreement of the post holder when necessary.
Health Service
Key features:
We employ approximately 8,000 staff, some of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements
We treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures
We offer care across five hospital sites and various community sites, using state-of-the-art facilities.
We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services. We are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services. In addition we provide specialist cardiology services and are a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care.
The Location
North West England
Essential Criteria
MRCP or Equivalent
GMC registration
Management of wide range of Acute Medical and Oncological Emergencies
The Package
£45,124 - £77,519
About Skilled Medical
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To Apply
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