Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist - Interest in Upper GI - 9.25 PAs

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 Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist.

This post is to commence January 2026 for 3 months.

The current opportunity is for a Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist with an Interest in Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers. You will provide care to patients served by the directorate. This may include providing services at NCCC-Carlisle.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

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

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: Dr Najibah Mahtab on 0191 213 8474, or via email at [email protected]

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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 and Deanery trainees and AHCPs 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.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.