Consultant in Medical Oncology - Breast Cancer

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant in Medical Oncology with a focus on breast cancer to join their dynamic team. This position offers opportunities for both clinical responsibilities and teaching within a well-established oncology service, emphasizing quality improvement and research involvement. The role is part-time, ensuring a balanced commitment to patient care and continuing professional development.

Qualifications

• MRCP, GMC registration, CCST/CCT in Oncology required.
• Ability to work under pressure and communicate effectively is critical.
• Experience in teaching and service development noted.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support the Breast medical oncology service.
• Attend weekly tumour specific MDTs.
• Participate in clinical trials and consultant on-call rota.

Skills

Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team

Commitment to continuous professional development

Ability to communicate effectively

Excellent interpersonal skills

Understanding of research methodology

Education

MRCP or equivalent medical degree

Full GMC Registration

CCST or CCT in Clinical or Medical Oncology

Job description

Main area Oncology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 7.75 sessions per week (7.75 PAs per week) Job ref 391-NMUH-7238793

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Middlesex University Hospital Town London Salary £105,504 - £128,443 per annum inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 23/06/2025 23:59

Consultant in Medical Oncology - Breast Cancer

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

We are seeking a Consultant in Medical Oncology with a specialist interest in breast malignancy to join our dynamic and supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a well-established oncology service, with opportunities for service development, quality improvement initiatives, and research involvement. The post-holder will join the breast oncology team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) on the North Mid Health Unit site as a 7.75 PA (less than full time) substantive consultant.

North Mid has recently merged with the Royal Free Group, it remains an activeDGH and Oncology treatment centre with a diverse communityin North London. The successful candidate would be employed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, to work at NMUH. The North Middlesex hospital oncology team 12 substantive oncology consultants.

The North Mid breast oncology team has 2 Medical Oncology Consultants (1 substantive and 1 locum i.e. this post is a replacement) and 1 Clinical Oncologist along with 3 Breast Clinical Nurse Specialists. There is an active local research department that is managed by the wider trust Research Governance team, based at Royal Free Health Unit in Hampstead.

Main duties of the job

Other Roles and Responsibilities
Consultants have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of their department. They are expected to undertake administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinical departments.
The appointee will be expected to take responsibility for maintaining their CPD.

Education and Training role
The North Middlesex University Hospital has gained a reputation for teaching excellence in the region due to our dedicated consultant teachers and a rich variety of clinical cases.

Formal teaching sessions are organised differently in various departments and there will be opportunity to be involved in training and teaching sessions.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

The following is not an exhaustive or exclusive list of the duties of a consultant. The appointee is expected to:

The core responsibilities of the post holder will be as follows:

1. To develop and support the Breast medical oncology service at the North Middlesex Hospital

2. To attend the weekly tumour specific Breast MDTs

3. To take responsibility for the designated clinical workload including all relevant MDMs, out-patient clinics, and review and responsibility for in-patients.

4. To take part in clinical trials in breast cancer

5. To participate in the consultant on-call rota for oncology at North Middlesex Hospital (1 in 16)

6. To participate in the consultant led review of breast oncology inpatients on the North Middlesex Hospital.

7. Work with consultant colleagues and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust’s resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.

8. To provide postgraduate teaching for junior staff

9. To provide clinical supervision for specialist registrars

10. To participate in undergraduate medical student teaching

11. To comply with all the clinical governance processes and procedures of the Trust

12. Compliance with Patients’ Charter and Purchasers’ requirements

13. To lead and participate in medical audit as per Royal College of Physicians guidelines

14. To maintain Continuing Professional Development accreditation as per Royal College of Physicians guidelines

15. To participate in the Trust appraisal programme and GMC revalidation processes.

16. The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

Person specification

Education

• MRCP or equivalent medical degree
• Full GMC Registration
• CCST or CCT in Clinical or Medical Oncology and on the specialist register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview
• • Ability to work as part of the multidisciplinary team

Skills and aptitudes

• Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to continuous professional development
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients and relatives
• Ability to work in a pressurised environment
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Experience of service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Understanding of research methodology and willingness to contribute to local projects
• Potential to develop leadership skills
• Evidence of research activity and publications

Others

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Experience on providing high quality training and education to undergraduates and postgraduates
• Specialist knowledge of dealing with relevant tumour sites
• Ability to support and motivate staff during periods of pressure

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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