Trust Doctor in Paediatric Oncology (ST3 equivalent)
| Posting date: | 13 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £65,048.00 to £73,992.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £65048.00 - £73992.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 December 2025 |
| Location: | Newcaslte upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-1437 |
Summary
Clinical: The post will include the responsibility and supervision of children (both in-patient, day case and out-patient) with leukaemia, solid tumours and adolescents with malignancies. The post holder will rotate through three months blocks as appropriate with special responsibility for patients divided into the following groups. Rotations may be customised to meet specific training needs as can be accommodated Children teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours Teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours Young people with brain tumours Young People leading up to and following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy The care of children receiving conditioning and delivery of stem cell transplantation. The post holder will gain experience in the clinical management of young people with a comprehensive range malignancies and haematological disorders. Administrative: The post holder will be involved in the administration of the Paediatric Oncology Unit. He/she will be responsible for ensuring the documentation of all patients on the Unit, and the discharge summaries, are kept up to date. He/she will supervise the junior staff to ensure this. The post holder will be responsible with other junior colleagues for the administration of out of hours cover for the paediatric oncology unit. Research: The post holder will be encouraged to undertake a clinical research project. This may interact with the major research team of the Department: 1) The Leukaemic Stem Cell as a therapeutic target. 2) Chromosomal abnormalities within ALL. 3) The molecular pathology of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma. 4) The clinical and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents. 5) The epidemiology of childhood malignancies. 6) Long term follow up and survivorship. 7) Development and delivery of Early Phase Trial therapy. 8) Investigation and development of new technologies for healthcare. Teaching: The post holder will be expected to participate in the teaching programme. They will also be expected to teach at the bedside undergraduate and medical students. The trust has a dedicated Training and Medical Education department offering face to face and online training. Within the Paediatric Directorate there are daily morning teaching sessions and a weekly grand round. In paediatric oncology there is a weekly junior medical staff driven teaching and journal club session and there is weekly targeted training sessions by the Consultant of the week. Our preclinical research unit provides a curriculum of weekly oncology research presentations including local national and international speakers. Flexibility: In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification