Locum Breast Upper GI consultant

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.

Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology with a special interest in breast and upper GI malignancies, based at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Lister Hospital, and the New QEII Hospital. This is a fixed-term post for 12 months for maternity cover and comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and an on-call commitment. The post holder will also be part of the Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) MDT.

Mount Vernon is a well-respected cancer centre, providing care to over 5,000 new patients a year, based in Northwood, Middlesex. It is currently run by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (ENHT) and is in the process of merging with University College London Hospital (UCH), a leading tertiary cancer services provider. Mount Vernon will continue to provide high-quality care for cancer patients during the transition period across to UCLH, which is expected to complete by September 2025.

The cancer centre will move to an established local acute hospital site, with access to intensive care facilities, whilst remaining a separate cancer centre. A networked satellite radiotherapy service will be developed to enhance the provision of cancer care to patients in the north of the area. We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be a part of the development of a new state of the art cancer centre.

At Mount Vernon, the post holder will be expected to work with members of the MDTs in supervising the oncology treatment of patients.

At the Lister Hospital and QEII Hospital sites, the post holder will work closely with the breast and upper GI multidisciplinary teams to provide a safe and high-quality outpatient oncology service.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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 made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to…