Consultant Medical Oncologist in Renal Cancers and Melanoma (10 PAs)

Integrated Care System; North East; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in the North East is seeking a highly motivated Consultant Medical Oncologist specializing in Renal Cancers and Malignant Melanoma. This role offers flexibility for full-time or part-time work and involves clinical responsibilities, including patient management and a commitment to teaching and research. The successful candidate will join a well-integrated team dedicated to providing high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner on or eligible for Specialist Register.
• Experience in oncology and flexible approach to work.
• Commitment to education and training of junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide tertiary-level oncology care in teaching hospital.
• Management of out-patient clinic, day unit and ward.
• Participate in research and pedagogical activities.

Skills

Oncology expertise

Clinical governance knowledge

Experience with chemotherapy

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Higher Degree

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Medical Oncologist in Renal Cancers and Melanoma (10 PAs)

The closing date is 13 August 2025

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a Consultant Medical Oncologist. Applicants wishing to work full time or part time would be considered. This post is available for recruitment as soon as possible

The current opportunity is for a Consultant Medical Oncologist in Renal Cancers and Malignant Melanoma. You will provide care to patients served by the directorate.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification,

Main duties of the job

To provide tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital's cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Ashraf Azzabi, Consultant Medical Oncologist via email at [e-mail]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

Provide oncology advice to the relevant MDT and to patients with these cancers

Prescribing of and supervision of prescribing of chemotherapy

On call cover for general oncological emergencies and provision of advice in and out of hours, to non-specialist teams managing patients with cancer

Out-patient clinic, day unit and ward management.

Administrative:

Participation in the directorate clinical governance processes including reporting into the Trust mortality database

Engagement with all the administrative electronic systems needed to deliver patient care.

Research:

There is an active research programme within the directorate with links to the Sir Bobby Robson Unit at Freeman Hospital, the late phase research team within the research and development directorate and to Newcastle University. Contribution to the research programme or further developments and collaborations will be actively encouraged.

Teaching:

There will be opportunity to develop teaching skills within the directorate and within the wider trust environment.

Bedside and clinical teaching of undergraduate students will form part of the responsibilities of the consultant

Clinical training and supervision of Trust junior doctors and Deanery trainees and AHCPs will be expected.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of experience in the specialty.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership / project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature
• Publications in the last five years

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's values
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a yearper annum pro rata