Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7464639-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Not defined
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Clinical Oncology - Urological malignancies
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a consultant in Clinical Oncology with a special interest in the medical management of Urological malignancies at Churchill Hospital, Oxford and Great Western Hospitals, Swindon. 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
· To provide a cancer service to patients with Urological malignancies throughout the trust and referral region.
· Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of oncology
· To work with colleagues at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation
· To provide a cancer service to patients with Urological malignancies throughout the trust and referral region
· To share with colleagues the responsibility of day-to-day management of oncology
· To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning clinical governance and audit
· To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education
· Teaching and training of junior staff, allied health professions and medical students
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. We believe that this will enable us to work more effectively in partnership with our patients and our local community to provide high quality healthcare.
Working for our organisation
T
he Oxford urology service comprises of a supra-regional, national service for renal cancers providing world leading surgery as well as stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) for primary renal cancers. In addition, we provide regional cancer services for bladder, germ cell and prostate cancers, with referrals from Swindon, Milton Keynes, Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals.
Our radiotherapy provision for all these cancers has a hub at the Churchill Hospital with satellite centres in Swindon and Milton Keynes. We are an established SABR centre having been one of the core centres to provide SABR in the UK, with a busy weekly SABR MDT and several RTTQA SABR accredited clinicians. The SABR clinicians have access to an MR Linac where carefully selected NHS patients from all over the country are treated. We also routinely provide 5 fraction SBRT for intermediate risk prostate cancers and we have an active radio-isotope service. Our unit runs several national and international radiotherapy, systemic therapy and theragnostic clinical trials and we work closely with our medical oncology colleagues to provide a comprehensive systemic therapy service for all our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The post-holder’s duties will be primarily at the Churchill Hospital, in Oxford and Great Western Hospitals, in Swindon. 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), Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Milton Keynes Hospital. Each 4-hour clinic has 2 new and 8 follow up patients; for a 42-week year, a full-time post holder is likely to see 250 - 300 new patients.
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required
to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The potholder's contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review. This post includes a requirement to undertake a role as Educational Supervisor within the department. We welcome applications from those who wish to combine NHS work with clinical research.
Funding from the Biomedical Research Centre and University may be available for suitably qualified applicants, and can be discussed with Professor Mark Middleton, Head of the University Department of Oncology
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave
will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other
appropriate personal development needs.
All newly appointed consultants will have access to mentoring
opportunities.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes
in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair. In addition, the post-holder will be allocated a Deputy Leadership role to gain additional insight into departmental and Trust management and governance processes. All new
appointees are assigned a mentor within the department, in additional to their formal line manager.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- MB ChB or equivalent. FRCR or equivalent.
- CCT or CESR in Clinical Oncology; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
- Full GMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical / Research degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- General training in Clinical Oncology to specialist level or equivalent
- General training in all aspects of clinical oncology and tumour sites
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level
Desirable criteria
- Research / Clinical trial experience / Publications /Presentations
- Urology experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills sufficient to effectively undertake the role of consultant in Clinical Oncology in a large teaching hospital.
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Good written English. Communication skills should be highly developed
- Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
- Evidence of effective participation in clinical audit and risk management.
- ICH GCP training within last 12 months. Evidence of active involvement in clinical research trials.
Desirable criteria
- Management training and experience
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for Its modernisation.
- Computing skills: ability to use word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser
- Publication of research.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Transport : Driving licence
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
- Mark Tuthill
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Oncology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 235272
- Additional information
Candidates are highly recommended to get in contact and visit the department (where possible). You are invited to contact:
Dr Mark Tuthill, Oncology Clinical Lead (Tel: 01865 235272)
Dr Rebecca Muirhead, Head of Radiotherapy, ([email protected]).
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