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Consultant Clinical Oncologist (Skin and Breast Cancer)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area Medical Specialities, Medical Oncology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent: 10 PAs Weekly Hours 10 sessions per week (Full Time 10 PAs per week) Job ref 391-RFL-7252837
Site Royal Free Hospital Town Hampstead Heath, London Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum plus London Weighting (pro rata) 10 PAs weekly Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Trust as a substantive Consultant Clinical Oncologist covering Skin and Breast cancers. In January 2025, the Royal Free London and North Middlesex University Hospitals Trusts merged, and we now deliver care to over 2 million people a year through our four main health units. There are chemotherapy infusion suites to treat cancer patients at The Royal Free, Finchley Memorial, North Middlesex and Chase Farm health units whilst radiotherapy is delivered at the Royal Free and North Middlesex health units. The Trust is one of the highest volume providers of skin and breast cancer care within London. The post-holder will work alongside medical and clinical oncology colleagues at the Royal Free and Chase Farm health units and will be essential for service provision as well as the development of skin, breast and MSCC pathway. The successful candidate should have experience of working within a multidisciplinary team; have a wide experience in Clinical Oncology but in particular in skin and breast cancer management with an interest in acute oncology mainly metastatic cord compression. If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification contact Dr Neha Chopra, Clinical Service Lead for Oncology at Royal Free Hospital on email neha.chopra@nhs.net. Interviews: June 2025
Main duties of the job
To develop and support the skin cancer service at Royal Free health unit and breast cancer services at Royal Free and Chase Farm health unit To lead the MSCC pathway for the trust. To attend weekly tumour specific skin and breast MDTs. To take responsibility for the designated clinical workload including all relevant MDMs and out-patient clinics. To take part in radiotherapy clinical trials in skin and breast cancer at Royal Free health unit. To provide dedicated time to deliver SABR for extra cranial oligometastatic disease at RFL Trust. To participate in the radiotherapy (1 in 7) and acute oncology (1 in 18) on call rota. To attend monthly consultant departmental meetings. To provide postgraduate teaching for junior staff. To provide clinical supervision for specialist registrars. To participate in undergraduate medical student teaching. To comply with all the clinical governance processes and procedures of the Trust. Compliance with Patients’ Charter and Purchasers’ requirements. To lead and participate in medical audit as per Royal College of Physicians guidelines. To maintain Continuing Professional Development accreditation as per Royal College of Physicians guidelines. To participate in the Trust appraisal programme and GMC revalidation processes. The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The proposed job plan will provide 8 PAs for DCC and 2 PAs for Supporting Professional Activates (SPAs). An indicative job plan for this role is proposed to be:
Day (Location)
Time
Activity
PAs
Monday (Royal Free)
09.00-11.00
Breast Radiotherapy planning
0.5 (DCC)
11.00-13.00
Skin Radiotherapy mark-up
0.5 (DCC)
13.00-14.00
SABR MDT
0.25 (DCC)
15.00-17.00
Metastatic breast MDT
0.5 (DCC)
Tuesday (Chase Farm)
09.00-14:00
CFH breast clinic
1.25 (DCC)
14.00-15.00
Clinic Admin
0.25 (DCC)
15.00-17.00
RT planning
0.5 (DCC)
08.00-11.00
RFH Breast MDT
0.75 (DCC)
11.00-14.00
RFH Breast clinic
0.75 (DCC)
14.00-15.00
Spinal MDT
0.25 (DCC)
15.00-16.00
Clinic admin
0.25 (DCC)
16.00-17.00
Breast RT peer review
0.25 (DCC)
Thursday (Royal Free)
9.00-11.00
Skin MDT
0.5 (DCC)
11.00-13.00
Skin Clinic
0.5 (DCC)
13.00-14.00
Clinic Admin
0.25 (DCC)
14.00-17.00
SPA
0.75 (SPA)
Friday (Royal Free)
09.00-11.00
RT planning
0.5 (DCC)
11.00-16:00
SPA/CPD
1.25 (SPA)
08:45-12:45
0.357 (DCC)
DCC – 8.1
SPA - 2
TOTAL – 10.1
On-call commitments: 1 in 7 (category A rota) radiotherapy rota for weekend radiotherapy emergencies
On-call commitments: 1 in 18 (20) (category B rota) oncology rota for oncological inpatient management/ attending system
SPA activity will include:
· MSCC Lead
· UG teaching for UCL students
PG teaching for registrars
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of Breast and Skin Oncology
* Consultant
RCP or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT
* Consultant
* Possession of MBBS or equivalent medical qualification Physicians Accreditation by the RCP or be within 6 months
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Name Dr Neha Chopra Job title Clinical Service Lead Oncology and Palliative Care Email address neha.chopra@nhs.net Telephone number 02078302184
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