Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Oncology - Colorectal
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 200MC-712749-6543309-AS
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St George's University Hospitals
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology, Breast & Gynaecological Cancer
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
The post is for a locum, less than full time (6PA) Locum Consultant Medical Oncologist with specialist interest in Breast & Gynaecological cancer within the Department of Oncology at St George’s Hospital. Within the Oncology department, the post-holder will work alongside the Breast oncology consultants (Dr Muireann Kelleher, Dr Fiona Kyle and Dr Catherine Cafferkey) and work closely with Dr Fiona Lofts, Consultant Medical Oncologists in Gynae unit. The post-holder’s mentor for this new post will be Dr Fiona Kyle to help integrate the post-holder into St George’s Healthcare - potentially a new trust - particularly important if he/she is a new consultant transitioning from Specialist Trainee status. Mentorship meetings will be formalised protected time and will occur weekly for six weeks then monthly and will be shared with Dr Jason Chow, Care Group Lead
Main duties of the job
Please see attached JD for further details regarding the post. Break down of PA, other programme activities, regular meetings and proposed time table.
Working for our organisation
With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. In addition to acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
As a leading UK teaching hospital we aspire to improve patient safety, patient experience and outcomes through excellence in our provision of education and training for the staff, students and trainees with whom we work. We have formed a strong alliance with St George’s, University of London (SGUL), to enable innovative developments in practice, research and education.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Specific Duties of the Post
· To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.
· To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
· To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.
· To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.
· To comply with St. George’s Healthcare No Smoking Policies.
· To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Medical degree (A)
- Full registration and license to practice with General Medical Council or eligible if currently working overseas (A)
- Has CC(S)T and on the Special Register for Medical Oncology or eligible for CCT and inclusion on the Specialist Register within 3 months of the interview date (A)
- Higher professional qualification (eg. MRCP) (A)
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a relevant management course or programme (A)
- Completion of a teaching course (A)
- MD or PhD (A)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Comprehensive training on a recognised SpR programme or equivalent in Medical Oncology (I/A)
- • Demonstrable experience in all aspects of Clinical Governance including leading clinical audits and implementing change (I/A)
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients (I/A)
- • A track record in teaching medical and other clinical staff and students (I/A)
- • Experience of giving clinical presentations (A)
- • Published research as papers or presentations (A)
Desirable criteria
- • Management experience (I/A)
- • Experience of an Acute Oncology Service (I/A) and Melanoma
- • Experience of conducting clinical research (I/A)
- • Involvement with national/international bodies
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to develop, motivate, work productively in and lead multidisciplinary teams (I/A)
- • High level of verbal and written communication skills (I/A)
- • Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand (I/A)
- • Strong leadership skills and performance driven (I/A)
- • Ability to advise on the efficient and smooth running of a specialist service (I)
- • Ability to initiate and implement change (I)
- • Good interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence (I)
- • Negotiating skills in order to influence others in a positive manner with the aim of resolving conflict where it may occur (I/A)
- • IT skills (A)
- • Ability to critically appraise scientific literature (I/A)
Desirable criteria
- • Research skills (I/A)
- • Writing successful grant application(s) (A)
- • Publications in peer reviewed journals (A)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of finance and budgets (I)
- • Understanding of modern medical curriculum and of learning assessment tools (A)
- • Disability and equality awareness (A)
Other
Essential criteria
- • Respects individuals’ rights, interests, beliefs, preferences and cultures (I)
- • Initiative, common sense, enthusiasm (I)
- • Ability to work collaboratively with the Care Group team (I)
- • Excellent personal time management skills (I/A)
- • Ability to make clear rational decisions and to exercise independent judgement in a professional and competent manner (I)
- • Intellectual flexibility required to work with ambiguity and complexity (I)
- • Commitment to continuing professional development and awareness of own personal development needs (I/A)
- • Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure (I)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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 Jason Chow
- Job title
- Medical Consultant Oncology, Care Group Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8725 2955
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