Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology: Germ Cell and Acute Oncology

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a locum post split across Germ Cell and Acute Oncology medical oncology services. The role is for 10PAs with an equal split across each area. The successful applicant will work at The Christie NHS FT main site. The successful applicant will join two busy medical teams delivering high quality patient care for the region.

The postholder will work across both disease groups as follows:

• Germ Cell – delivering two clinics per week and playing an active role in regional MDT.
• Acute Oncology – leading on inpatient reviews and decision‑making on the wards.

There is a 1:20 full‑week on‑call rota. The on‑call consultant provides a post‑take ward‑round each morning to review all newly admitted patients.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60 000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15 % of patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world, chemotherapy on site, and through 14 other hospitals highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.

We are also an international leader in research, with world‑first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

The appointee will be expected to develop a significant interest in Germ Cell and Acute Oncology, deliver systemic therapy and undertake clinic duties and inpatient reviews at the Withington site. The post holder will be actively involved in delivering all aspects of systemic therapy.

The Trust supports the requirements for CPD as laid down by the GMC and royal colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

The job plan outlines the requirements of the post and may be altered by joint agreement with the Divisional Clinical Director and Service Manager and in response to service needs. Job plans are prospectively agreed subject to an annual individual job plan review (May–September). It is expected that the initial Job Plan discussion will take place within the first six months of employment at the Trust and then be aligned to the Trust’s annual Job Planning review cycle.

To ensure you maintain safe practice and understand Trust requirements, you must ensure your essential/mandatory training modules are maintained at all times using allocated core SPA time to complete them.

Schedule repeats from Monday to Friday:

• AM 09:00‑12:30
  :
  Admin, Acute Oncology, AAU, SPA, Acute Oncology, AAU, Outpatient Clinic (Withington).
• Lunch
• PM 13:00‑17:00
  :
  Outpatient Clinic Remote? (Withington) 1:2, SPA, Acute Oncology, AAU, MDT, SPA, Acute Oncology, AAU, Outpatient Clinic (Withington).

Total PAs Direct Clinical Care (DCC): 7.5

• Outpatient clinics – 2.5
• Acute Oncology Inpatients – 4
• Patient Administration General – 1
• MDT – 0.5

Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) (including 1.5 core SPA): 2.5

• Supervision role (minimum 0.25 must be allocated) – 0.25
• Other Supporting Professional Activities – 2.25

Total Programmed Activities (PAs): 10

This role does require participation in the on‑call rota. Consultants in the department share in an on‑call rota that involves a commitment to a full week in every twenty weeks. This covers the Specialist Registrar who is second on‑call. The on‑call consultant provides a post‑take ward round each morning to review all newly admitted patients, and any sick patients escalated by the team.

This takes place seven days per week. Given the low frequency on‑call (1:20) the PAs associated with the predictable element of weekend on‑call work form part of the job plan rather than time…