About this role
Job summary
We are pleased to invite applications for the post of Specialty Doctor in Oncology, based at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust within the Worcestershire Oncology Centre. This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity to join a friendly, supportive and forward-looking oncology team.
The successful applicant will work alongside our Consultant Oncologists and wider multidisciplinary team, supporting chemotherapy and radiotherapy services, outpatient clinics across our hospital sites, the oncology ward and the provision of Acute Oncology services. The post also offers opportunities to contribute to teaching, clinical research and audit.
Main duties of the job
This is a rotational post, with the successful applicant spending six months working with each of two Consultant Oncologists over the 12-month appointment, offering valuable breadth of experience across the service. For six months, the successful applicant will be attached to a Consultant Oncologist caring for patients with colorectal and lung cancers and neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). They will then be rotating to work with a Consultant Oncologist managing patients with breast, upper gastrointestinal and renal cancers. Throughout both placements, the postholder will be expected see new patients, treatment-review patients and follow-up patients, with opportunities to gain experience in clinical assessment, treatment planning, toxicity management, surveillance and supportive care.
The role includes weekend ward cover on a 1:4 rota, between 9am and 5pm.
The Worcestershire Oncology Centre opened in early 2015 on the Worcestershire Royal Hospital site and offers modern facilities, including state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment. Our Oncology Department is dynamic, approachable and collaborative, with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality specialist cancer care across the three hospital sites within our large acute Trust: Worcester, Redditch and Kidderminster.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Medical Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.
A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide an appropriate clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital, whilst covering AOS duties.
The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings. To collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trust's and departmental objectives.
The post-holder will participate in the oncology weekend on call rota 0900-1700.
The Trust would expect a Specialty Doctor whilst undertaking non-resident on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The Specialty Doctor on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes Essential
Ability to work effectively as a team member. Enquiring, critical approach to work. Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies. Commitment to Continuing Medical Education. Flexible approach to work duties. Ability to work without supervision. Reliable and supportive to other colleagues. Ability to work antisocial hours.
Desirable
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local regional or national levels.
Research Experience Essential
Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems. An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative.
Desirable
Publications in relevant peer- reviewed journals in the last 5 years. Evidence of having undertaken original research.
Qualifications Essential
QualificationsEligible for full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise at the time of appointment. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable
Higher degree.
Experience Essential
At least four years full-time or equivalent postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in the relevant specialty training programme, or as a FTSTA. Or equivalent experience and competencies of this specialist training. Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty. Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
Teaching Experience Essential
Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines. Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.
Desirable
Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
Management and Administrative Experience Essential
Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively. Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities. Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit.
Desirable
Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
WR5 1DD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)