Senior Clinical Fellow Oncology

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to a medical fellow to work within the department of Oncology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Initially it is a 6 month fixed term contract. This post will form part of the Medical oncology post graduate training rotation and provide great learning opportunities in a supportive environment. The role would ideally suit both trainees wishing to pursue a career in oncology, post MRCP part II, but not yet in a training role or those who have finished their oncology training and looking to develop their breast cancer experience. It may also suit potential Portofolio Programme (ex-CESR) trainees, but only with GMC registration and able to work immediately in the UK. The post allows considerable flexibility for the doctors to choose their area of research or education, to develop their CV’s or clinical experience.

This  would  be  ideally  suited  for  someone  who has/is close to completing their acute medical training and  interested  in specialist  training  in  medical  or  clinical  oncology.  The applicant would  be  expected  to complete their training  and  clinical  opportunities  in  line  with  their  development needs. The successful applicant will have educational and clinical supervision. This post does not have any formal on call commitment, but the applicant would have opportunity to participate in the on-call rota if they wished to.

The post is offered 6 month with possibility to extensions.

Main duties of the job

Provide high quality care to patients in oncology services, Research, teaching and training, Performance management, Medical staff management, Governance and Leadership and team working

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration:

• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.
• To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by clinical director.
• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
• Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions
• Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates
• Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team
• Operational efficiency e.g. admission avoidance, day case review and management
• To participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
• To demonstrate excellent leadership skills within ward team.
• To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and wider ICHT medical community