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Job summary

Main area
Medical Oncology
Grade
Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (potential to extend for a further 6 months.)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (potential for on calls on appointment)
Job ref
413-MD-C2025-24826-OO
Employer
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medical Oncology - E00251
Town
Manchester
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/03/2026 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology: Germ Cell and Acute Oncology

Locum Consultant

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a locum post split across Germ Cell and Acute Oncology medical oncology services. 
The role is for 10PAs with an equal split across each area. The successful applicant will work at The Christie NHS FT main site. 
The successful applicant will join two busy medical teams delivering high quality patient care for the region

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work across both disease groups as follows:
Germ Cell – delivering two clinics per week and playing active role in regional MDT.
Acute Oncology – leading on inpatient reviews and decision-making on the wards
There is a 1:20 full-week on-call rota. The on-call consultant provides a post-take ward round each morning to review all newly admitted patients.  

Working for our organisation

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The appointee will be expected to develop a significant interest in Germ Cell and Acute Oncology delivering systemic therapy and undertaking clinic duties and inpatient reviews at the Withington site.   The post holder will be actively involved in delivering all aspects of systemic therapy. 


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
The Trust supports the requirements for CPD as laid down by the GMC and royal colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

Job Planning
The job plan outlines the requirements of the post and may be altered by joint agreement with the Divisional Clinical Director and Service Manager and in response to service needs.  Job Plans are prospectively agreed subject to an annual individual job plan review (May – September).  It is expected that the initial Job Plan discussion will take place within the first six months of employment at the Trust and then be aligned to the Trusts annual Job Planning review cycle.

The annual review will examine all aspects of the job plan (including any educational and supervision components) and will also include an assessment of professional development with defined goals for the future.  For more information refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this Job Description and also the Trust’s Job Planning Policy

Essential Training/Mandatory Training
To ensure you maintain safe practice and understand Trust requirements, you must ensure your essential/mandatory training modules are maintained at all times using allocated core SPA time to complete them.

Job Plan Timetable
The timetable below is indicative and will be confirmed on commencement in post.  

It is the requirement of the Trust that all new consultant colleagues must have 0.25 SPAs within their job plan to support Trust appraisal and supervision requirements.  This can either be as appraiser or a supervisor for medical staff or Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP).

AM

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

 

09:00-

12:30

Admin

Acute Oncology

AAU

SPA

Acute Oncology

AAU

Outpatient Clinic

(Withington)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

 

 

PM

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

13:00-17:00

Outpatient Clinic – Remote?

(Withington) 1:2

 

SPA

Acute Oncology

AAU

MDT

 

SPA

 

Acute Oncology

AAU

 

 

Outpatient Clinic

(Withington)

 

 

 

 

 

Job Plan PA Summary

Total PAs

Direct Clinical Care (DCC)

                     7.5

Outpatient clinics

                        2.5

Acute Oncology – Inpatients

                        4

Patient Administration – General

                        1

MDT

                        0.5

 

 

Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) (including 1.5 core SPA)

                     2.5

Supervision role (minimum 0.25 must be allocated)

                        0.25

Other Supporting Professional Activities

                        2.25

Total Programmed Activities (PAs)

 

                10

 

On call Commitments
This role does require participation in the on-call rota. Consultants in the department share in an on-call rota that involves a commitment to a full week in every twenty weeks. This covers the Specialist Registrar who is second on-call.  The on-call consultant provides a post-take ward round each morning to review all newly admitted patients, and any sick patients escalated by the team.  This takes place seven days per week.  Given the low frequency of on-call (1:20) the PAs associated with the predictable element of weekend on-call work form part of the job plan rather than time in lieu and is reimbursed as an additional 0.27 PA.  This may be reviewed in the future if requirements for on-call change. 

The post holder will have access to office accommodation with computer, intranet and internet and admin/secretarial support

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MRCR(UK) or equivalent qualification
  • Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register via one of the following: a. Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) b. Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration
  • Evidence of productive ethical research relevant to oncology
Desirable criteria
  • An appropriate higher degree
  • Recent publications in peer-reviewed journals

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Appropriate experience across all disease groups in Medical Oncology as well as clinical trials experience (including Good Clinical Practice accreditation).
  • Wide experience of Oncology including Breast Cancer
  • Experience in teaching undergraduates
  • Experience of clinical audit
  • Evidence of contribution to teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Breast clinical experience
  • Research experience
  • Relevant experience
  • Teaching experience /training

Personal skills

Essential criteria
  • Is a team player prepared to adapt to changing circumstances.
  • Evidence of clinical leadership skills
  • Proven ability to lead a team
  • Dynamic, decision-making motivator.
  • Integrity, management and communication skills including teaching
  • Confident in ability, but knowing own limitations.
  • Demonstrates knowledge, logic and efficiency
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Flexibility, commitment and team work with colleagues and staff in the department
  • Hardworking, enthusiastic achiever
  • Good attendance record
  • Patient friendly
  • Professional demeanour
  • Must be resilient and well organised
  • Ability to work under pressure

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Claire Mitchell
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
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