Consultant Medical Oncology Urological Cancers/Geriatric Oncology GOLD
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Main area Medical Oncology Grade Consultant Medical Oncologist Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 8.25 sessions per week Job ref 196-CON1050
Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guy's Hospital Town London Salary £105,504 - £139,882 p.a excl LZ (Pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2025 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Consultant Medical Oncologist in Urological Cancers and Geriatric Oncology (GOLD)
Substantive post
Commencing as soon as possible
Cancer services in Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) have undergone a major transformation programme to improve the quality of care and patient experience. The programme includes a new Cancer Centre housing ambulatory cancer services, opened in 2016 and a new cancer treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup (QMS) which opened in May 2017. Clinical pathways have been revised to optimise patient care. This post comprises 8.25 PAs to join the teams at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital (KCH).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate in outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary team meetings, teaching & ongoing service development integrating across oncology services.
GOLD (Geriatric Oncology Liaison Development) is an innovative onco-geriatrics liaison service providing comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) for older people undergoing cancer treatment. GOLD aims to improve the overall care of older people undergoing cancer treatment, improve fitness & comorbidity co-management, support during cancer treatment, improve tolerance to treatment as well as better inform cancer treatment decision-making.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s & St Thomas' is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with around 17,000 staff, an annual turnover of more than £1.6 billion, and over 2.6 million patient contacts a year. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.
We provide a full range of hospital services for our local community, including community services for the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. We also provide specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiac, and kidney services.
We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. Our AHSC is one of six in the UK and consists of King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. Across the AHSC we see around 3 million patients a year; have 30,000 staff; 20,000 students; and a combined annual turnover of £2.6 billion. Our AHSC brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world class teaching to deliver ground breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for a motivated clinician with an interest in urological cancers. The postholder will be working closely with Drs Sarah Rudman, Debra Josephs, Deborah Enting, Danielle Crawley, Elias Pintus and Kate Smith. They will be supported by a team of CNS’s. The GOLD part of the job will be working closely with three consultant geriatricians (Tania Kalsi, Carly Welch, James Maguire), a team of specialist nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and a clinical fellow.
The Clinical Director for Oncology is Dr Hartmut Kristeleit (H), and the Deputy Clinical Director for Oncology is Deborah Enting (Deborah.E).
Candidates wishing to discuss details of the post or to visit the hospital are advised to contact the above-named consultants.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Please see job description for more details.
**Please note that the job description is currently being approved by the Royal College of Physicians**
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
* Hold MRCP
* Full GMC Registration
* On GMC Specialist List in Medical Oncology or within six months of attaining CCT.
* Possession of, or working towards, a higher degree qualification (MD or PhD)
Clinical Experience
* Training in management of Urological cancers
* Experience in leading and delivering recruitment to clinical trials
* Experience of multidisciplinary cancer care.
* Experience of clinical trial development and operation.
* Wide general experience in Medical Oncology and an ability to offer expert clinical opinion in a range of problems within the speciality.
Skills
* Track record of clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills required
* Experience in clinical trials
* Definite track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of Research ethics
* Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
* Management of all aspects of care of patients with complex cancers undergoing intensive treatment.
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
* A background in discovery and development of new molecularly-defined therapies.
* An awareness of current speciality specific developments, initiatives and issues. Evidence of training in research methodology.
Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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