Consultant Medical Oncologist inNewcastle upon Tyne inNewcastle upon Tyne PUBLISHED WED 9 OCT 2024

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a Consultant Medical Oncologist. This post is for 7.5 PAs plus on call and is available for recruitment as soon as possible.

The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is the regional Cancer Centre delivering radiotherapy and chemotherapy services within the North of England Cancer Network (NECN). The Centre provides secondary and tertiary care for both in-patient and outpatient services for a population of 2.1 million, covering an area stretching from the Scottish borders to Cumbria and the River Tees. The centre is fully equipped to provide state of the art cancer care. Services are also provided by NCCC to 6 surrounding Trusts.

The current opportunity is for a Consultant Medical Oncologist with interest in Sarcoma/Gist and Cancer of Unknown Primary. You will provide care to patients served by the directorate.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

To provide tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital's cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Najibah Mahtab on , or via email at

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

Clinical:

Provide oncology advice to the relevant MDT and to patients with these cancers

Prescribing of and supervision of prescribing of chemotherapy

On call cover for general oncological emergencies and provision of advice in and out of hours, to non-specialist teams managing patients with cancer

Out-patient clinic, day unit and ward management.

Administrative:

Participation in the directorate clinical governance processes including reporting into the Trust mortality database

Engagement with all the administrative electronic systems needed to deliver patient care.

Research:

There is an active research programme within the directorate with links to the Sir Bobby Robson Unit at Freeman Hospital, the late phase research team within the research and development directorate and to Newcastle University. Contribution to the research programme or further developments and collaborations will be actively encouraged.

Teaching:

There will be opportunity to develop teaching skills within the directorate and within the wider trust environment.

Bedside and clinical teaching of undergraduate students will form part of the responsibilities of the consultant

Clinical training and supervision of Trust junior doctors and Deanery trainees and AHCPs will be expected.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.