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Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
176-F-HE-7619059-A
Employer
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Peterborough City Hospital
Town
Peterborough
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/04/2026 23:59

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Consultant Clinical Oncologist - Urology and Breast

Consultant

Job overview

The Oncology department at North West Anglia Foundation Trust is looking for a highly motivated and dynamic consultant to join our team in providing high quality patient care, in Urology, and Breast tumour sites. Other tumour sites would be considered as the second site, along with either Urology or Breast.  

The Oncology department at Peterborough City Hospital, and the Woodlands Centre at Hinchingbrooke hospital offer a comprehensive service in collaboration of other oncologists, nursing teams, administrative staff and the Radiotherapy department in delivering high quality care and treatment in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. We look forward to welcoming you to join our team.

Main duties of the job

  • To work with NWAFT colleagues to strengthen existing Urological and breast cancer services, supporting multidisciplinary meetings and providing high quality care for cancer patients.  
  •  Active participation in clinical audit, continuing professional development and research as appropriate. There is access to a study leave budget for appropriate CPD activities. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the Trust and CBU Clinical Governance processes including the dedicated monthly half days.
  •  Out-of-hours participation in consultant on-call rota comprising telephone advice for Peterborough City Hospital on a 1:10 basis. It is expected that the on-call consultant will do a remote ward round review daily at the weekends and bank holidays.  This has been facilitated by the introduction of electronic inpatient notes. Oncology patients are admitted at this time under the care of the consultant physician on-call and treated according to protocol. The on-call arrangements may change over time with the implementation of the 7-day working initiative. There will be consideration for taking time off in lieu 
  • Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development activity, locally and nationally.
  • To develop and participate in collaborative initiatives, studies and trials. 

Working for our organisation

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • See and treat Urology and Breast cancer patients, joining a supportive team.
  •  To collaborate with colleagues at the Regional Cancer Centre (Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trusts (CUH), Cancer Units and other agencies to ensure optimum quality of care for cancer patients including referring patients for brachytherapy or to the phase I trials unit at CUH.
  •  Active participation in clinical audit, continuing professional development and research as appropriate. There is access to a study leave budget for appropriate CPD activities. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the Trust and CBU Clinical Governance processes including the dedicated monthly half days.
  •  Out-of-hours participation in consultant on-call rota comprising telephone advice for Peterborough City Hospital on a 1:10 basis. It is expected that the on-call consultant will do a remote ward round review daily at the weekends and bank holidays.  This has been facilitated by the introduction of electronic inpatient notes. Oncology patients are admitted at this time under the care of the consultant physician on-call and treated according to protocol. The on-call arrangements may change over time with the implementation of the 7-day working initiative. There will be consideration for taking time off in lieu.
  •  Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development activity, locally and nationally.

Person specification

Knowledge/Skills/Clinical Expertise

Essential criteria
  • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Clinical Oncology
  • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems in Oncology
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
  • Experience in delivery of SACT and radiotherapy for breast, and urological cancers.
  • Experience in participating in and conduction of clinical trials

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • FRCR; Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of training (CCT) at time of interview
  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of GMC standards in Good Medical Practice including: ● good clinical care ● maintaining good medical practice ● good relationships and communication with patients ● good working relationships with colleagues ● good teaching and training ● professional behaviour and probity ● delivery of good acute clinical care
Desirable criteria
  • MD/PhD

Leadership/Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to take responsibility and demonstrate leadership when appropriate. An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to: ● empower others ● lead through change ● influence strategically ● demonstrate innovation and problem solving abilities
  • Ability to cope with and effectively organise the workload of a Consultant
  • Ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the clinical service; ability to adapt and respond to changing circumstances to improve patient care
  • Good knowledge of the structures and culture of the NHS, as well as the roles, responsibilities and relationships across the MDT and the multi professional team

Teaching and Training

Essential criteria
  • Clinical governance: demonstrates awareness of principles of good decision making. Awareness of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: including reporting errors and learning from errors.
  • Audit: experience of audit.
  • Teaching: experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff; ability to teach clinical skills
  • Research: ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems; ability to critically appraise published evidence

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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
Dr Abigail Hollingdale
Job title
Consultant Clinical oncologist and Clinical lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01733673185
Additional information

Samantha O'Herlihy

Divisional Operations manager - Cancer Services

[email protected]

01733 678490

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