Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be caring for patients with Urology malignancies.

The post will be mainly based at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, with an outpatient clinic in the Alexandra Hospital which is one of our peripheral hospital sites.

Main duties will include:

• Provision of a comprehensive oncology service, including new patient and follow up clinics at Worcester and one of our peripheral sites.
• Provision of emergency cover, including ward rounds on rotational basis (currently one in ten weeks)
• Support cover for consultant colleagues during periods of leave on a shared basis.
• Contribution to the continuous development of our service
• Undertaking teaching/training activities to meet continuous professional development standards and support the best environment to our trainees (formal and informal).
• Participating in audits and actively contributing to matters concerning clinical governance.
• Taking on a leadership role within the department, our organisation or wider NHS structures to contribute to delivering best outcomes and experience to our patients.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.