Oncology Consultant Practitioner

The Consultant Clinical Practitioner will work across four core pillars of consultant practice:

• Expert Clinical Practice
• Strategic and Enabling Leadership
• Learning, Development and Improvement Across the System
• Research and Innovation

You will practise independently as a consultant-level practitioner, managing complex caseloads, influencing system-wide pathways, developing the workforce and leading quality improvement and research initiatives locally, regionally and nationally.

• Provide senior clinical leadership within Oncology and across medicine services.
• Influence commissioning, service redesign and transformation across organisational and system boundaries.
• Maintain effective budgetary control
• Lead and deliver a multi-professional education and training strategy, including Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Act as educational supervisor for ACPs and support the Trust-wide supervision framework.
• Work closely with universities, HEE and professional bodies to shape curricula and workforce pipelines.
• Lead research, clinical audit and quality improvement programmes within Oncology.
• Publish and disseminate research findings nationally and internationally.
• Use data and evidence to improve pathways, reduce unwarranted variation and support admission avoidance.
• Develop clinical guidelines, policies and standard operating procedures at service and Trust level.

We operate from three main hospitals — Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services. WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day-case and inpatient surgery.

In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay. Our Community Service for adults are provided in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.