Locum Consultant in Clinical Oncology interest in GI Malignancies

Locum Consultant in Clinical Oncology interest in GI Malignancies

NHS Medical & Dental:
Locum Consultant

Main area Medical Oncology Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Locum Consultant Contract 6 months (Fixed term: 6 months) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job
-M&D-7756102

Site Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Town Northwood Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/03/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

• Include: We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
• Respect: We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
• Improve: We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are looking to appoint a Locum Consultant in Clinical Oncology with a special interest in gastrointestinal malignancies. This is a 6 month fixed-term locum appointment, based at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC) in Northwood and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and an on-call commitment.

The post holder will contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient‑centred GI oncology care across MVCC and Hillingdon Hospital. They will be responsible for specialist outpatient care, participation in MDT meetings and the safe delivery of both SACT and radiotherapy to include the provision of stereotactic radiation within the regional SA  facility. They will also be expected to contribute to teaching and training across the multidisciplinary workforce;

and will engage fully in directorate‑level clinical governance activities including audit, incident review, quality improvement, and adherence to trust and national cancer standards.

At Mount Vernon, the post holder will be expected to work with members of the GI and SA  MDTs planning and supervising the oncology treatment of patients to include the safe delivery of SACT and radiotherapy. At Hillingdon Hospital the post holder will work closely with the GI multidisciplinary team to provide a safe and high‑quality outpatient oncology service.

• Maintenance of high‑quality patient centred care
• Shared responsibility for the day‑to‑day management of the service
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Delivery and development of SACT administration
• Active participation in continuing medical education
• Active participation in trial research activities

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be…