Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Job description

Applications are invited for one substantive Consultant Oncologist post , which is a joint post with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Oxfordshire University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The post is mainly based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wycombe Hospital, with Clinical Oncology rights at Oxford Churchill Hospital.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT)

Bucks Healthcare comprises 3 hospitals: Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Wycombe Hospital and Amersham Hospital. The post holder’s duties will be primarily based in Stoke Mandeville Hospital but may involve cross-site working at the Wycombe Hospital.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUHFT)

OUHFT comprises 4 hospitals: John Radcliffe Hospital (JR), Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC), Horton General Hospital in Banbury (HGH). The Oxford component of the post will be based at the Oxford Cancer Centre on the Churchill site.

Acute Oncology is based at Stoke Mandeville hospital where inpatients are managed by the acute Medical and Surgical specialties. There is a team of 4 nurses covering the triage lines and daily ward rounds. There is a 16 bed ward with 12 side rooms for haematology and some acute oncology patients which is staffed by chemo trained nurses. Each tumour site is well supported by CNSs and discussions are underway with the deanery for a rotational Medical Oncology Registrar post.

The successful candidate will be expected to cover two tumour sites out of: Skin, Breast, Gynaecology, Lung, Urology and Acute Oncology.

There will also be opportunities to take up leadership roles in audit, research, chemotherapy, clinical governance and/or acute oncology. From 2020 the department will be receiving medical students from Buckingham Medical School. There will be an opportunity to provide teaching and also to be block lead for their training.

AAC Consultant Interview Date - Tuesday 26 January 2021

Company Description

Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do, providing you with safe and compassionate care, every time. Our focus is on providing right care, right place, right time, first time and everything we do is aimed at delivering high-quality care when and where you need it.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has around 6,000 highly-trained, qualified doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff caring for more than half a million patients from Buckinghamshire and neighbouring counties every year.

We deliver this care in a range of ways; from community health services provided in people’s homes or from one of our local bases, to hospitals at Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe and Amersham.

And we are proud of the nationally recognised services that we provide. Stoke Mandeville Hospital is home to the internationally recognised National Spinal Injuries Centre; our stroke service is one of the best in the region and we are a regional centre for burn care, plastic surgery and dermatology.

We aren't complacent though and we continue to strive for success – building on our performance to improve our services for our patients and our community. 

We are committed to providing safe and compassionate care, every time and we won’t be satisfied until we are providing high-quality, healthcare to every patient, every time, first time.

We want to be bold in how we deliver care to our patients.  Over the next five years we will radically change the way we deliver healthcare and move away from the hospital being the first point of contact.  Working with our partners, such as GPs, mental health services and social care, we will build and develop our community and primary care services so that patients can access health advice, support and care in their communities and closer to their homes.

We have set out our strategy and plans for how we intend to achieve this -  click here to view our strategic priorities  - and we are measured and monitored by our Trust Board and a range of other agencies to ensure that we meet our performance standards.