Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Oncology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months (0)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-7765294
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum 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
LOCUM CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY ( maternity cover)
A whole-time post as locum Consultant in Paediatric Oncology is available now at the John Radcliffe Hospital/Children’s Hospital of Oxford. There is a post to cover 12 months Maternity leave.
The post is for 10.0 programmed activities (PAs).
The postholder will work alongside the current permanent staff, three Paediatric Oncologists and three Paediatric Haematologists.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Dr Amrana Qureshi ( 01865 234 205) Shaun Wilson (tel: 01865-234196), Clinical Lead for Paediatric Haematology/Oncology service, and Dr Alex Lee Clinical Director of Children’s Services, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe Hospital. Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
Main duties of the job
To provide maternity cover from March 2026 for 12 months and join the existing members of the Paediatric Haematology/Oncology team in providing a regional service for children with cancer or haematological disorders and work with the team members in providing an on-call service with a 1 in 6/7 rota. The postholder’s duties will be primarily at the Children’s Hospital Oxford (CHOX), located in the John Radcliffe (JR) Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations and outreach clinics. The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of patients with solid and CNS tumours, and leukaemia and lymphoma aged 0-19 years. The post holder will participate in the 1 in 6 “consultant of the week” system, providing cross cover for in-patient activity, dealing with new referrals, initial diagnostic work-up, planning and delivery of treatment and care. The post-holder will work as an integral member of the team, attending and contributing to the established Oxford multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings. The post-holder will share responsibilities to review patients on the day unit, supporting the fellows and staff grades, and independently lead outpatient clinics.
Working for our organisation
The Oxford Paediatric and Adolescent Haematology/Oncology unit provides a world class, holistic service for patients within the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance, consisting of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Swindon. The unit provides all solid tumour oncology, neuro-oncology, malignant and benign haematology services for the Alliance, apart from allogeneic transplantation. The Oxford PTC unit has Joint Accreditation Committee-ISCT & EBMT (JACIE) accreditation for the administration of high dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue. Patients requiring allogeneic transplantation are referred to Bristol/London services. The unit provides supraregional support for haemophilia and Haemoglobinopathy services, covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire.
The Children’s Hospital Oxford (CHOX) at the John Radcliffe Hospital (JRH) Campus is the Principal Treatment Centre (PTC) providing tertiary haematology/oncology services for designated Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Units (POSCUs) in Swindon, Reading, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe/Stoke Mandeville and Slough (Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital). The unit has excellent relationships with paediatricians in the POSCUs. Outreach clinics for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology are held at each of the POSCUs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Outline Job Plan Weekly provisional Programmed Activities
An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined on the JD. The final Job plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director on appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.
Annual and study leave arrangements must be co-ordinated within the specialty to ensure there is an acceptable level of consultant
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with Licence to practice
- • MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
- On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Appropriate training in tertiary paediatric haematology/oncology centre APLS or equivalent course in date Trained to Level 3 safeguarding
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- Ideally the CCT or its recognised equivalent should be in Paediatrics
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree, e.g. MSc, MD, PhD in Paediatrics
- Higher medical degree FRCPath
Experience
Essential criteria
- At middle grade level up to consultant
- Comprehensive training in Paediatric oncology at tertiary level
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
- Is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
- CSAC can advise here. As the attached Representative you will be a member of the relevant subspeciality
- Valid APLS and NLS
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
Desirable criteria
- • Experience working in NHS
- Wider experience, research, and training, in providing subspecialty service (if applicable.)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Willing to work unsupervised and make decisions
- Good communication skills, including communicating bad news
- Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
- Meets the requirements of the GMC’s ‘Good Medical Practice’
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit/QI project, understanding the role of these in improving the medical practice
- Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence, so as to improve clinical outcomes
- Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff
- Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS
- Understanding of management issues including medical management, clinical governance, service planning, and quality improvement
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, their relatives, colleagues, managers, other agencies, and staff at all levels
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of risk management, annual job planning, appraisal review process, etc.
- Research degree
- Training the Trainers’ certification
- Evidence of leadership attributes and experience
- Evidence of motivational skills
- Specific training in communication skills
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
- Amrana Qureshi
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatric Haematologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 226654
- Additional information
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Dr Amrana Qureshi ( 01865 234 205) Shaun Wilson (tel: 01865-234196), Clinical Lead for Paediatric Haematology/Oncology service, and Dr Alex Lee Clinical Director of Children’s Services, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe Hospital
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