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Main area
Paediatric Oncology
Grade
ST3-ST8
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (January 2025 for 6 months)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (plus on call)
Job ref
317-TD-24-248
Employer
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Paediatric Oncology - RVI
Town
Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary
£61,825 - £70,425 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Trust Doctor in Paediatric Oncology (ST3+ equivalent)

ST3-ST8

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

This post is suitable for a trainee with knowledge and experience of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology care as well as having a solid grounding in Acute Paediatric Medicine. A comprehensive training programme is available within this post which is equivalent to the training delivered through the UK National Grid training programme to achieve Specialty Certification. 

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

This post will be for 6 months from January 2025 with the possibility of extension.  It will provide training in the clinical aspects of Paediatric Oncology.  This position will be in the Department of Paediatric Oncology (Royal Victoria Infirmary) within the Children's Directorate of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Tasnim Arif at [email protected] or Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson on 0191 2824068 or email [email protected].

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:
The post will include the responsibility and supervision of children (both in-patient, day case and out-patient) with leukaemia, solid tumours and adolescents with malignancies.   The postholder will gain experience in the management of patients with: 

•    Children teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
•    Teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
•    Young people with brain tumours
•    Young People leading up to and following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy
•    The care of children receiving conditioning and delivery of stem cell transplantation.
•    The post holder will gain experience in the clinical management of young people with a comprehensive range malignancies and haematological disorders.  

Administrative:
•    The post holder will be involved in the administration of the Paediatric Oncology Unit.  He/she will be responsible for ensuring the documentation of all patients on the Unit, and the discharge summaries, are kept up to date.  He/she will supervise the junior staff to ensure this. 
•    The postholder will be responsible with other junior colleagues for the administration of out of hours cover for the paediatric oncology unit.

Research:
The post holder will be encouraged to undertake a clinical research project.  This may interact with the major research team of the Department:
1)    The Leukaemic Stem Cell as a therapeutic target.
2)    Chromosomal abnormalities within ALL.
3)    The molecular pathology of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma.
4)    The clinical and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents.
5)    The epidemiology of childhood malignancies.
6)    Long term follow up and survivorship.
7)    Development and delivery of Early Phase Trial therapy.
8)    Investigation and development of new technologies for healthcare.

Teaching:
The post holder will be expected to participate in the teaching programme. They will also be expected to teach at the bedside undergraduate and medical students. The trust has a dedicated Training and Medical Education department offering face to face and online training. 
Within the Paediatric Directorate there are daily morning teaching sessions and a weekly grand round.
In paediatric oncology there is a weekly junior medical staff driven teaching and journal club session and there is weekly targeted training sessions by the Consultant of the week. Our preclinical research unit provides a curriculum of weekly oncology research presentations including local national and international speakers.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Primary Medical Qualification
  • Comprehensive basic Paediatric internship training
  • Full GMC registration at time of application

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good history & examination skills
  • Able to formulate a working diagnosis
  • Able to order appropriate investigations
  • Image interpretation relevant to practice
  • Able to institute complex management plans
  • Advanced level of skills and knowledge in paediatric oncology /haematology
  • Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague

Maintaining Clinical Competence

Essential criteria
  • Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential criteria
  • Experience of audit projects

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
  • Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Alignment with the Trust’s Values
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Time management skills
  • Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of leadership skills
  • IT literate

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardRIDI Awards Finalist 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall Gold 2022Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Richardson
Job title
HR Advisor
Email address
[email protected]

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