Consultant Medical Oncologist – Breast Cancer & Melanoma

Job overview

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. This post is available for recruitment in January 2027.

The current opportunity is for a Consultant Medical Oncologist with an interest in Breast Cancer and Melanoma will provide care to patients served by the directorate. This includes providing services at NCCC-Carlisle.

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: Rachel Pearson via email at rachel.pearson1@nhs.net.

Detailed job description and main 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, Deanery trainees and ACPs will be expected.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s 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.

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.