Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The successful consultant will primarily be responsible for caring for patients with urology malignancies. The other tumour site is negotiable - potentially lung or lower gastrointestinal, but other combinations may also be considered. The post is mainly based at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, with an outpatient clinic located in Kidderminster, one of our peripheral hospital sites.

Main Duties

• 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 participating in ward rounds on a rotational basis.
• Providing support cover for consultant colleagues during periods of leave on a shared basis.
• Contributing to the continuous development of our service.

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 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.