Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology Melanoma & Acute Oncology

The post is for a locum, less than full time (8PA) Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology with interest In Melanoma and Acute Oncology within the Department of Oncology at St George's Hospital (for further information and a suggested timetable, see relevant sections below). Within the Oncology department, the post-holder will work particularly closely with Dr Alberto Fusi and Dr Mehran Afshar, Consultant Medical Oncologists. The post-holder's mentor for this new post will be Dr Alberto Fusi to help integrate the post-holder into St George's Healthcare - potentially a new trust - particularly important if he/she is a new consultant transitioning from Specialist Trainee status. Mentorship meetings will be formalised protected time and will occur monthly and will be shared with Dr Jason Chow, Care Group Lead.

This is a replacement post following retirement to ensure consultant input into the medical oncology service for melanoma and AOS and represents an expansion of the current workload reflecting the increased new patient referrals via the skin MDT for treatment of melanoma. This post enables comprehensive consultant cross cover for inpatients and outpatients and to promote the further development and delivery of excellent melanoma and AOS services., Please see attached JD for further details regarding the post. Break down of PA, other programme activities, regular meetings and proposed time table.

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. In addition to acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

As a leading UK teaching hospital we aspire to improvepatient safety, patient experience and outcomes through excellence in our provision of education and training for the staff, students and trainees with whom we work. We have formed a strong alliance with StGeorge's, University of London (SGUL), to enable innovative developments in practice, research and education.