Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:
The postholder will focus on clinical research within the unit. This may involve identification and recruitment of patients for trials, the care and assessment of patients on study, the organisation and co-ordination of the investigations required and completion of components of research Case report Forms. We will engage the trainee in international investigator teleconferences, Genomic tumour advisory boards, our regional relapse MDT for the North of Britain and the annual ITCC and Accelerate meetings. We will expect the trainee to jointly start development of a new early phase trial for children and young people with cancer.

The post will also include the responsibility and supervision of children (both in-patient, day case and out-patient) with leukaemia, solid tumours and adolescents with malignancies. This will include 

•    children teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours

•    teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours

•    young people with brain tumours

•    Young People receiving Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy

The post holder will gain experience in the clinical management of young people with a comprehensive range malignancies and haematological disorders. 

Administrative:
•    The postholder will support the clinical research team comprising research nurses, clinical trial-co-ordinators and data managers.
•    The postholder will support the co-ordination and delivery of the weekly North of Britain ECMC Relapse MDT
•    The postholder will assist in the maintenance of the UKCCCR New Agents Group New therapies Newsletter and co-ordination of meetings of the New Agents group while the chair of this group is based in Newcastle (tenure until 2027)
•    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, quality improvement or audit. It is expected that this will be in the development and delivery of clinical research. A basic grounding in the concepts underpinning preclinical research will be provided. They  may also interact with the major research team of the department:-
•    The Leukaemic Stem Cell as a therapeutic target
•    Chromosomal abnormalities within ALL
•    The molecular pathology of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma;
•    The clinical and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents;
•    The epidemiology of childhood malignancies.
•    Long term follow up and survivorship

Teaching:
•    The postholder will undertake clinical trial training and training in Good Clinical Practice in Clinical trials. 
•    The post holder will also be expected to participate in the unit 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.