Job overview
We are looking to appoint a consultant in Clinical Oncology with a special interest in the medical management of Urological malignancies at Churchill Hospital, Oxford and Great Western Hospitals, Swindon. The successful candidate will work with existing Medical and Clinical Oncology colleagues, clinical nurse specialists, nurse and pharmacist prescribers, as well as other members of the multidisciplinary teams across these tumour sites.
Please get in touch with us to discuss this post and what we could offer you. We will work with you to create a suitable job plan
Main duties of the job
·To provide a cancer service to patients with Urological malignancies throughout the trust and referral region.
·Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of oncology
·To work with colleagues at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation
·To provide a cancer service to patients with Urological malignancies throughout the trust and referral region
·To share with colleagues the responsibility of day-to-day management of oncology
·To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning clinical governance and audit
·To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education
·Teaching and training of junior staff, allied health professions and medical students
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. We believe that this will enable us to work more effectively in partnership with our patients and our local community to provide high quality healthcare.
Working for our organisation
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he Oxford urology service comprises of a supra-regional, national service for renal cancers providing world leading surgery as well as stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) for primary renal cancers. In addition, we provide regional cancer services for bladder, germ cell and prostate cancers, with referrals from Swindon, Milton Keynes, Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals.
Our radiotherapy provision for all these cancers has a hub at the Churchill Hospital with satellite centres in Swindon and Milton Keynes. We are an established SABR centre having been one of the core centres to provide SABR in the UK, with a busy weekly SABR MDT and several RTTQA SABR accredited clinicians. The SABR clinicians have access to an MR Linac where carefully selected NHS patients from all over the country are treated. We also routinely provide fraction SBRT for intermediate risk prostate cancers and we have an active radio-isotope service. Our unit runs several national and international radiotherapy, systemic therapy and theragnostic clinical trials and we work closely with our medical oncology colleagues to provide a comprehensive systemic therapy service for all our patients.