# Consultant Medical Oncologist - Melanoma and Breast > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-medical-oncologist-melanoma-and-breast/70c5aff7-9889-4bef-b4cf-2899c99ade6d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-medical-oncologist-melanoma-and-breast/70c5aff7-9889-4bef-b4cf-2899c99ade6d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - **Location:** Maidstone Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Oncology - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-21T09:10:45.521Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Maidstone/Maidstone_Tunbridge_Wells_NHS_Trust/Medical_Oncology/Medical_Oncology-v8246121 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8246121?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mtw.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a post within the Kent Oncology Centre, based at Canterbury and Medway Hospitals, providing services to patients from East Kent and Medway This post holder will be responsible for providing a chemotherapy oncology service for Melanoma and Breast Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust The Trust provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 480,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Its major hospitals are the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital with a satellite site at Fordcombe. Trust Chair- Dr Annette Doherty, Chief Executive - Mr Miles Scott Chief Medical officer- Dr Sara Mumford. Chief of Service- Miss Philippa Moth Clinical Director for Oncology – Dr Tim Sevitt and Dr Kannon Nathan Maidstone Hospital Maidstone Hospital is a 410 bed hospital situated at the western edge of Maidstone, two miles from junction 5 of the M20. It provides general hospital services to a catchment population of around 220,000. The Accident & Emergency Department has approximately 100,000 attendances per year. ### Main duties of the job Job Duties And Responsibilities - To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave. - To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust. - To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission. Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list. All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Enthusiasm for developing tumour site specialisation and Cancer Services in Kent. - Ability to organise and manage. **Desirable** - Experience in Clinical Audit and Research. - Experience in medical education ### Attributes **Essential** - Ability to work in a team. - Good interpersonal skills. - Caring attitude to patients. **Desirable** - An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team. - Dedication to maintaining and developing the cancer care group in co-operation with other hospital departments. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Full GMC registration or equivalent. - FRCR/MRCP or equivalent (Entry on the Specialist Register as a clinical oncologist or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the advisory appointments committee) **Desirable** - Higher qualification in Medicine. - Research degree (MD/PhD). - Clinical Experience in relevant tumour sites. ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 63.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2762) - [ek melanoma medway breast (pdf, 520.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10557730) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.