Consultant Clinical or Medical Oncologist

The post being advertised is areplacementpost. With the appointment to the vacant post there will be seven oncologists with their primary base at Ipswich Hospital, and eight oncologists based at Colchester Hospital. The Departments of Oncology is within the ‘Oncology & Haematology Clinical Delivery Group’ of the ‘Cancer and Diagnostics’ Division.

The post is based at Ipswich Hospital but there is the expectation of cross site working.

It is envisaged that the post holder will work according to an agreed job plan, in order to maintain a service embracing all aspects of Oncology including solid tumour chemotherapy and technically advanced radiotherapy (if a clinical oncologist).

Applicants will have completed CCT or equivalent (CESR) and must be on the Specialist Register.

Applications are welcome from those not on the Specialist Register or working towards, who would be considered for a NHS Locum Fixed term position

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointees and Clinical lead and Director on behalf of the Medical Director three months after the commencement date of their appointment.

The job plan will then be reviewed annually. It will cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. In addition, it will include personal objectives, details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.

10 PA’s will be offered with the possible option of 1 more A minimum of 8.5 PA’s will be for direct patient care and 1.5 PA’s for SPA. ( See Job Plan below)

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care. We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.

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**Expected commitments will include**:
Multi-disciplinary ward meeting

One new patient clinic

One or more (if MO) chemotherapy clinics

One or more follow-up clinics

One or more planning clinic (if CO)

One or more on-treatment RT review clinic (if CO)

Acute oncology service support (one or more sessions)

Ward consultations

Other ward rounds

Attendance at relevant site-specific MDTs

Audit, research, CPD, appraisal and revalidation

Support to department management

0.5 PA is allocated to on call commitments

Each consultant post is likely to see between 160 - 180 New patients per year or 3-4 per week for each tumour site.

CLINICAL

On call arrangements

1 in 7 Consultant rota (with internal cover if medical oncologist for radiotherapy emergencies). On call is categorised as Class B. Out of hours cover is supplied by a resident FY2 / ST1-2 from the Medical On Call rota. The junior doctors are all part of the medical rota.

Board & Ward Rounds

All the consultants support the daily board and ward rounds when on call. Clinical sessions are reduced in order to accommodate the required availability.

Provisional Time-table

Medical / Clinical Oncologist

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

AM

Radiotherapy (if Clinical) or Chemo clinic (if Medical)

MDT

MDT

SPA

Acute Oncology Service

Ward/Board Round

Chemotherapy review clinics

Radiotherapy (if Clinical) or Ward/Board Round (if Medical)

PM

New/F/up

clinic

New/F/up

clinic

New/F/up

clinic

SPA

Admin

This timetable could be varied by rearrangement of the current consultants’ timetables to accommodate any constraints imposed by the appointees’ special interest and available clinical space in the department.