UGI, HpB and Breast Cancer Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Job summary

Full-time Consultant Clinical Oncologist with a responsibility in Upper GI and Hepatobiliary Carcinomas, and Breast cancer for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Main duties of the job

NUH Hepatobiliary Cancer Team

This is a new post within the HPB team at NUH. It's role is to primarily support NUH's growing, specialist interest in HPB radiotherapy and to develop good cross-team working with the upper GI radiotherapy team. NUH is one of few centres in the UK treating HCC with SABR and it has a regional lead in East Midlands for SABR HC and liver oligometastases and SABR/IMRT Chemoradiotherapy in pancreas. NUH also has a strong SACT trial portfolio for these patients.

KMH Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) Cancer Team

You will be joining an enthusiastic and supportive team to deliver the UGI Radiotherapy and SACT oncology service at KMH. The UGI service at KMH benefits from a weekly joint MDT hosted from NUH. Our surgical colleagues also attend KMH weekly in order to assess patients and progress their care.

The KMH UGI oncology clinic is supported by a three person UGI CNS team and a support worker. This team also cross covers support for the smaller HPB CNS team where needed. KMH hosts its own clinical trials team and welcomes both hosting trials or acting as a pick site when required.

NUH Early breast cancer radiotherapy Team

You will be joining an expanding, enthusiastic multidisciplinary team treating early breast cancers. NUH has a renowned breast cancer service and an active programme in clinical research. At NUH (City Campus) you will have a specific interest in early breast cancer radiotherapy and adjuvant endocrine treatment.

About us

The speciality serves a resident population of 1.1 million and currently sees approximately 5,000 new patients each year (at City Hospital and King's Mill Hospital); providing a comprehensive range of non- surgical oncology services to the East Midlands.

The Oncology Service has four dedicated oncology inpatient wards with 66 beds, which includes a dedicated Teenage and Young Adult Unit and its own oncology outpatient department. There are two outpatient systemic therapy wards with 35 chairs and six beds as well as satellite clinics at King's Mill Hospital with a further 11 chairs dedicated to outpatient systemic anticancer therapy delivery. Oncology at NUH runs its own 24hr admission service with a 20 bed Specialist Receiving Unit which it shares with Haematology and a Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC). A rapid response triage emergency line is manned by our nurse led Cancer Admission Triage Team (CATT) using the UKONS telephone triage system. Oncology has invested in a high calibre acute oncology nursing team supporting the acute care of cancer patients admitted to city hospital campus as well as providing outreach support at Queen's Medical Centre.

The current Oncology consultant team of 12 medical oncologists and 27 clinical oncologists provide site specialist care in multi-disciplinary teams. There is an established Medical Oncology Higher Specialist Training programme (9 posts), a highly successful Academic training programme (ACFs & ACLs) and