Consultant Medical Oncologist with an Interest in Breast Cancer 9PA
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7431616/317-CON-25-209 |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a Consultant Medical Oncologist. Applicants wishing to work full time or part time would be considered. This post is available for recruitment as soon as possible.
The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is the regional Cancer Centre delivering radiotherapy and chemotherapy services within the North of England Cancer Network (NECN). The Centre provides secondary and tertiary care for both in-patient and outpatient services for a population of 2.1 million, covering an area stretching from the Scottish borders to Cumbria and the River Tees. The centre is fully equipped to provide state of the art cancer care. Services are also provided by NCCC to 6 surrounding Trusts.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The role will involve providing tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital’s cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.
The current opportunity is for a Consultant Medical Oncologist with an interest in breast cancer. You will provide care to patients served by the directorate. This may include providing services at NCCC-Carlisle.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
• Provide oncology advice to the relevant MDT and to patients with these cancers
• Prescribing of and supervision of prescribing of chemotherapy
• On call cover for general oncological emergencies and provision of advice in and out of hours, to non-specialist teams managing patients with cancer
• Out-patient clinic, day unit and ward management.
Administrative:
• Participation in the directorate clinical governance processes including reporting into the Trust mortality database
• Engagement with all the administrative electronic systems needed to deliver patient care.
Research:
• There is an active research programme within the directorate with links to the Sir Bobby Robson Unit at Freeman Hospital, the late phase research team within the research and development directorate and to Newcastle University. Contribution to the research programme or further developments and collaborations will be actively encouraged.
Teaching:
• There will be opportunity to develop teaching skills within the directorate and within the wider trust environment.
• Bedside and clinical teaching of undergraduate students will form part of the responsibilities of the consultant
• Clinical training and supervision of Trust junior doctors and Deanery trainees and AHCPs will be expected.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Aug 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a Consultant Medical Oncologist. Applicants wishing to work full time or part time would be considered. This post is available for recruitment as soon as possible.
The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is the regional Cancer Centre delivering radiotherapy and chemotherapy services within the North of England Cancer Network (NECN). The Centre provides secondary and tertiary care for both in-patient and outpatient services for a population of 2.1 million, covering an area stretching from the Scottish borders to Cumbria and the River Tees. The centre is fully equipped to provide state of the art cancer care. Services are also provided by NCCC to 6 surrounding Trusts.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The role will involve providing tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital’s cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.
The current opportunity is for a Consultant Medical Oncologist with an interest in breast cancer. You will provide care to patients served by the directorate. This may include providing services at NCCC-Carlisle.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
• Provide oncology advice to the relevant MDT and to patients with these cancers
• Prescribing of and supervision of prescribing of chemotherapy
• On call cover for general oncological emergencies and provision of advice in and out of hours, to non-specialist teams managing patients with cancer
• Out-patient clinic, day unit and ward management.
Administrative:
• Participation in the directorate clinical governance processes including reporting into the Trust mortality database
• Engagement with all the administrative electronic systems needed to deliver patient care.
Research:
• There is an active research programme within the directorate with links to the Sir Bobby Robson Unit at Freeman Hospital, the late phase research team within the research and development directorate and to Newcastle University. Contribution to the research programme or further developments and collaborations will be actively encouraged.
Teaching:
• There will be opportunity to develop teaching skills within the directorate and within the wider trust environment.
• Bedside and clinical teaching of undergraduate students will form part of the responsibilities of the consultant
• Clinical training and supervision of Trust junior doctors and Deanery trainees and AHCPs will be expected.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Aug 2025
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