Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology - Breast Cancer & Acute Oncology

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust would like to invite applications for a Locum Consultant Medical Oncologist in Breast Cancer and Acute Oncology 10 PA post.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic colleague to join our team.

The advertised job is for a new full time consultant post in the Department of Oncology at Chelsea & Westminster NHS FT. The post will be working cross-site at both The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road and The West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. The successful candidate will join existing site-specialist multidisciplinary teams in the field of Breast Cancer and will support the existing Acute Oncology Service on both hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services in busy, but well supported hospitals.

It is anticipated that the post holder will support the delivery of systemic therapies in an expanding service, drive forward improvements in the service that we provide to our patients as well as to support clinical trials.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellence and the ability to deliver effective care. As a senior member of the team, the post holder will become a key part in the delivery of training and supervision of junior colleagues.

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.