Job summary
- Main area
- cancer
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- 24 months (Fixed term contract)
- Hours
- Part time - 2 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 252-2025-039
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Darent Valley hospital
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead for Lung Cancer
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The Clinical Lead role is ideally a GP who can work will be responsible for overall safety of patients involved in the programme including processes for verifying the procedures for selection, scanning and acting on findings as well as communicating with participants.
The post will work closely with the Programme Director and the Lung Screening steering group to deliver the Lung Cancer Screening programme. The Screening Steering group is responsible for ensuring the delivery of the programme
Main duties of the job
Role and Specific Duties
This role is specific to the Lung Cancer Screening Programme
To direct the strategic development of the LCSP for the targeted population of
Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley
To work with all the programme stakeholders and support functions to ensure the
delivery of this screening programme
To provide professional direction and leadership for the programme
To ensure all data is available for inclusion in a national evaluation with the purposes
of comparing the programme and the overall success and impact. Data submission
will be according to a national minimum dataset an submission is mandatory
To report to NHS England through the K&M Cancer Alliance
Working for our organisation
We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer. We strive to employ people who reflect the communities we serve, and aim to create an inclusive culture where everyone can reach their full potential. Whatever your race, ethnicity, belief, generation, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or experience, you’ll appreciate the opportunities we give you to work in an inclusive atmosphere. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build on the progress we’ve achieved to make our Trust diverse and the best place to work. We celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that help us overcome challenges and embrace new possibilities. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant Pledge and have a commitment to the Armed Forces Community.
If you are considering applying for a role, please be aware that as an NHS Employee you may have contact with vulnerable service users. We strongly encourage that all our staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 and are vaccinated annually against Flu, in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and patients. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Role / Responsibilities
The Clinical Lead post is a 2 PA /sessions per week responsible for:
Overall clinical oversight and responsibility of the local programme as directed by the Trust and the K&M Cancer Alliance
To work closely with primary care colleagues, programme stakeholders and the key clinicians in the programme including the Responsible Assessor, Responsible Radiologist, Responsible Clinician and the Programme Manager.
To ensure systems and processes are in place between GP practices and
Trust for the transfer of data for eligible patients from primary care to the Trust; a data sharing agreement will be needed for all practices as part of the LCSP across DGS
To provide independent scrutiny of, and advice in relation to:
o Governance and commissioning arrangements
o Service specifications and KPI’s
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- MRCGP/MRCP or evidence of equivalent qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 3 years post CCT experience
- Experience of working as a clinical leader delivering service change or improvement projects
- Experience of collaborative working across organisational boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate effective system leadership behaviour
- Capacity to develop leadership in others
Personal skills
Essential criteria
- Communication Skills: Demonstrates clarity in written / spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation Able to build rapport, listen, persuade & negotiate
- Experience and enthusiasm for audit and research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service innovation and development Demonstrates an understanding of NHS management and resources
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working and leadership supported by multi-source feedback or other workplace-based assessments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Erum Jamall
- Job title
- Divisional Medical Director Women’s, Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322428100
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