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Consultant Clinical Oncologist in Breast and Lymphoma | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 March 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M20 4BX |
| Company: | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6998361/413-MD-C2024-23901-LP |
Summary
The Clinical Oncologist appointed will work with the Breast team to provide a comprehensive clinical service for breast patients. This includes patients in the outpatient, inpatient and ambulatory settings, and Radiotherapy whilst also providing Clinical Oncology input to the Breast MDT.
The postholder will also be required to work alongside colleagues within the Lymphoma service at the Christie to provide radiotherapy and some systemic therapy for lymphoma patients.
This will involve outpatient clinics, radiotherapy planning sessions, peer review meetings, ward rounds of inpatients, and be an active member of the North West Sector MDT.
The appointee will be expected to develop a significant interest in Breast and lymphoma oncology delivering radiotherapy and systemic therapy. Undertaking clinic duties at the Withington site and our satellite centre at Macclesfield.
The post holder will be actively involved in delivering all aspects of radiotherapy and systemic therapy. The well supported team structure and ethos facilitates cross-cover of clinical work.
There is collaborative working within both the breast and lymphoma clinical oncology research teams which the successful applicant will be expected to participate in.
There are opportunities in breast for involvement in advanced technical radiotherapy including SABR, breast VMAT, protons and MR Linac. The team has a strong commitment to research and trial activity in which the appointee would be expected to be involved in.
The clinical oncology lymphoma team prides itself on collaborative working with our medical oncology and haematology colleagues and has a strong commitment to teaching, quality improvement and research. It is expected that this postholder will share in the supervision of student doctors and junior medical staff and actively engage in clinical audit and the recruitment of patients to studies in our wide trial portfolio including within cutaneous lymphoma.
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% 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.
ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
This post is for 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week on a substantive contract to work within the Clinical Oncology Breast and Lymphoma Disease Groups. Split equally between the two services.
The outpatient clinics will be held at The Christie main site and Macclesfield satellite centre. The MDTs are held at the Christie main site.
Role Purpose
Breast:
The Clinical Oncologist appointed will work with the Breast team to provide a comprehensive clinical service for breast patients. This includes patients in the outpatient, inpatient and ambulatory settings, and Radiotherapy whilst also providing Clinical Oncology input to the Breast MDT.
The Breast Disease Group, Chaired by Dr Anne Armstrong and Dr Vivek Misra currently consists of 11 Clinical and 8 Medical Oncologists. These oncologists manage all of the breast cancers diagnosed within the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network, with many oncologists delivering a peripheral service through MDTs and clinics. Systemic therapy is delivered centrally or given to patients at peripheral or outreach clinics according to agreed protocols. Radiotherapy is delivered at The Christie or at satellite units in Salford, Oldham and Macclesfield.
This year the whole Clinical Oncology team will see around 1200 New patients and around 5750 Follow up patients through the Breast team clinics.
All Disease Group consultants work as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting the delivery of this work including Nurse Clinicians, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Clinical Fellows, Specialist Trainees, Pharmacists and Research Nurses
The Disease Group has a strong emphasis on research with an active systemic therapy and radiotherapy trial portfolio supported by 7 Research Nurses and 5 Clinical Trial Administrators. The Breast Disease Research Sub-group has a 6-weekly business meeting to which all members of the Disease Group are invited.
This advert closes on Friday 28 Feb 2025
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