Job overview
We are looking to appoint a consultant in Medical Oncology with a special interest in the medical management of Upper GI malignancies. 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
·The post-holder’s duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital, in Oxford and in Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations or outreach district general hospital clinics, including the Horton Hospital in Banbury, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wycombe Hospital (part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust) and Milton Keynes Hospital. Each -hour clinic has new and follow up patients; for a -week year, a full-time post holder is likely to see - new patients.
Working for our organisation
The oncology department in Oxford moved into a £M comprehensive diagnostic and treatment cancer centre in. Chemotherapy is prescribed using a pan cancer network e-prescribing system (Aria). Radiotherapy facilities: Pre- treatment; new state of the art CT simulators with auto-contouring and metal artefact reduction software are being installed in the next few months to replace the existing equipment. There are six bunkers containing state of the art multi-mode, multi-energy, linear accelerators with cone beam CT, DoF couches, respiratory gating real time position management (RPM). Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), SRS, the full range of SABR indications commissioned by NHSE. Image guidance is in routine use, including D CBCT. Auto contouring and auto planning tools are available to support and enhance treatment planning tasks. OUH recently opened a satellite service in Swindon and is now working in partnership with Milton Keynes Hospital to build and operate a radiotherapy satellite on their site, due to open in late. There is a brachytherapy suite within the department. Patients have access to a comprehensive range of support services. There is a team of fully trained Advanced Practice and Consultant nurses and Therapeutic Radiographers who undertake most of the patient on-treatment review and care, several of whom are non-medical prescribers.