Clinical Fellow in Medical Oncology

Job description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

This role is essential to the delivery of the Nationally Commissioned Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD) Service, providing specialist care for patients with a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. The postholder supports acute and inpatient care, outpatient services, emergency treatment provision, and coordination with specialist nurses, the National Screening Service, and oncology teams across the UK to ensure timely and effective patient management.

Main duties of the job
• Provide high quality care to patients in oncology services

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.

o To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

o To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities.

o To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Research, teaching and training

o Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.

o To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by clinical director.
• Performance management

To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

§ Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions

§ Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates

§ Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team

§ Operational efficiency e.g. admission avoidance, day case review and management

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job and person specification requirements, please refer to the Job Description attached to this advertisement.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
• MRCP part 1, MRCP part 2 written

Desirable criteria

• MRCP part 2 completed
• Completion of core medical training
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians part II

Audit

Essential criteria

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

Desirable criteria

• Service improvement experience

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent team and communication skills
• Experience and competencies in acute oncology emergencies
• IT Skills and computer literacy

Desirable criteria

• Prior oncology experience

Leadership/ management skills

Essential criteria

• Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority

Teaching and training

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on