Speciality Doctor in Oncology

The closing date is 25 March 2026

This post of Speciality doctor in Medical or Clinical Oncology is part of the cancer team working across East Yorkshire, North‑East Lincolnshire and Goole.

We are expanding the number of speciality doctors in the department and recruiting 2 Speciality doctors. It is anticipated that the post will be based within the Queen’s Centre with additional responsibility for caring for patients at Scarborough Hospital and North Lincolnshire Hospital Trust. For work in a peripheral clinic, travelling time is included within the job plan.

The candidate may be required to work on any of the Trust’s sites and across the seven‑day period where necessary.

The trainees are linked with teams of consultants and specialist grades and specialist registrars (based around site specialisation).

Successful candidates will be expected to support the Trust’s goals for sustainability by encouraging and adopting sustainable ideas and practices.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For more information on this advertised vacancy, please see attached job description and personal specification.

• Full Registration with the GMC

• MRCP Part 1
• Valid ALS certificate
• MRCP
• Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in postgraduate training

• Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on a range of acute medical conditions
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

• Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
• Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high‑intensity workload
• Ability to develop, present and ope rationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
• Evidence of having conducted a practice‑changing audit
• Experience of teaching/training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• Original peer‑reviewed research publications

• Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
• Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other health professionals and adapt style as appropriate
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust