Job overview
This post is located within the Kent Oncology Centre, based in Maidstone, and provides services to patients from East and West Kent.
The post holder will join our team of medical and clinical oncologists to take a major interest in the Urology Service, providing Oncology services from a West Kent base. As a member of the Kent Oncology Centre, you will be committed to participating fully in a Kent-wide approach to delivering cancer care. This includes attendance at governance meetings, multi-disciplinary team meetings and the practice of cross-referral with other site specialists.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team, and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments to ensure a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the speciality, to provide high-quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
Working for our organisation
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was formed in April 2000. It consists of two District General Hospitals, based at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells, providing services to approximately 450,000 people living in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Sussex, and the surrounding areas.
Its major hospitals are The Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury near Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone Hospital. The Kent Oncology Centre in West Kent is based at Maidstone Hospital. The Trust manages the Oncology centre based at Maidstone and Canterbury. These services form an integral part of Kent’s Cancer Services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the speciality, covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to job planning, unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing coordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately, with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal, as per guidance from the Deanery.
We encourage the inclusion of research in normal clinical work, nd we are also keen to support the development of research activities for interested applicants.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC registration
2. FRCR/MRCP or equivalent (Entry on the Specialist Register as a clinical oncologist or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the advisory appointments committee)
Desirable criteria
3. Higher qualification in medicine or surgery
4. Clinical experience in relevant tumour sites
Skills
Essential criteria
5. Enthusiasm for developing tumour site specialisation and Cancer Services in Kent
6. Ability to organise and manage
Desirable criteria
7. Experience in clinical audit and research
Attributes
Essential criteria
8. Ability to work in a team.
9. Good interpersonal skills.
10. Caring attitude to patients.
11. Commitment to continuing medical education.
12. An awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses.
13. Ability to work across sites within the KOC
Desirable criteria
14. An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team
15. Dedication to maintaining and developing the cancer care group in co-operation with other hospital departments. Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, coaching and motivating.
16. Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, coaching and motivating.