Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION FOR SPECIALIST SENIOR CLINICAL FELLOW IN BRACHYTHERAPY
Title of Post: Specialist Senior Clinical Fellow in Brachytherapy
Nature of Appointment: Full Time Post (12 Months Fixed Term)
Responsible To: Clinical Lead Dr Vinod Mullassery
Accountable To: Clinical Director Dr Hartmut Kristeleit
Employing Authority: Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Overall purpose of the post:
- To assist in the provision of the high quality care for patients with a range of malignancies, where brachytherapy is a modality of treatment.
- To contribute to the ongoing development of the brachytherapy service.
- To contribute to brachytherapy service delivery.
- To contribute to the development, maintenance and update of brachytherapy clinical protocols.
- To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care and to contribute to service developments.
- To participate in research and audit activities within the Department and to establish and maintain the database of patients treated with brachytherapy
Timetable: Provisional and subject to change as different tumour sites go live
Monday
Morning
Research/ service development
Afternoon
Research/ service development
Tuesday
Morning
Prostate Clinic
Afternoon
Teaching/ skin brachytherapy
Wednesday
Morning
Prostate LDR /HDR Brachy
Afternoon
Gynae clinic
Thursday
Morning
Gynae brachytherapy/
Oesophageal brachytherapy planning
Afternoon
Research/ service development
Friday
Morning
Gynae Brachytherapy/ brachytherapy planning
Afternoon
Audit
The post holder will be expected to see patients planned for brachytherapy in clinic.
Employing Authority and main place of employment:
This post will be based at the Guys Site but may include working at any additional or different location owned or served by the trust, either on an on-going or temporary basis according to the demands of the service. This includes sites across Guys and St Thomass or Queen Marys Sidcup, Kings College Hospital, Princess Royal Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham or other hospitals within our cancer service.
Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UKs best known hospitals Guys, St Thomas, Evelina London Childrens Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UKs busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and as part of Kings Health Partners we are one of Englands eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Researchs biomedical research centres, established with Kings College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Organisational Values:
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand andreflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will:
- Put patients first
- Take pride in what they do
- Respect others
- Strive to be the best
- Act with integrity
Our values and behaviours frameworkdescribes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.The framework can be found on our Trust careers pages and GTIntranet.
Guys Cancer Centre
Guy's and St Thomas' is a Joint Cancer Centre with King's College Hospital that offers a full range of services for the diagnosis and treatment of all adult cancers. Patients from across south east London attends for treatment which is not available at their local hospital. The Trust's cancer services will be provided at both Guy's and St Thomas' sites as well as the new site at Queen Marys, Kent.
Over the next five years, GSTT will help establish an internationally renowned Comprehensive Cancer Centre by:
- providing the very best cancer service to patients by combining first class clinical care with ground-breaking research and high quality training and development across the AHSC
- improving outcomes and experience for cancer patients with complex needs through earlier diagnosis, effective treatment and the provision of high quality survivorship care
- embedding whole person care across the cancer pathway and strive to bring treatment programmes closer to home
- developing and test new biological and cellular therapies in a range of cancers
- opening a new £160 million cancer centre at Guys Hospital and a sister centre in Sidcup, which will transform the delivery of cancer services, so patients will receive the right treatment at the right time, delivered within fewer visits and tailored to their need
Clinical Aims
- To bring together the majority of cancer care and research under one roof, so that patients are given seamless care and staff can work together on diagnosing, treating and applying research into cancer.
- To improve supportive care, patient information and complementary therapies at each stage of the patient pathway to improve patients quality of life both during treatment and into recovery and survivorship.
- To provide an outstanding environment that will lift the spirits of patients, relatives and staff.
- To deliver compassionate care and a world class service
Department Information
The Oncology department is internationally distinguished for its commitment to research & development and constantly strives for excellence through dedication and innovation. As part of the commitment of the Trust to providing the highest quality of cancer care, the new purpose-built cancer centre on Guys campus opened in September 2016 and a new cancer centre at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup opened in May 2017. The Guys Cancer Centre was designed by staff and patients working together and provides state-of-the-art cancer care in a supportive modern environment. The centre includes individual departments (villages): welcome (housing all patient support activities), radiotherapy, chemotherapy and outpatients. This is a great opportunity to join us and become part of a dynamic and encouraging team.
The Richard Dimbleby Cancer Information and Support Service| offers people with cancer information; complementary therapies and psychological support to help them and their families cope with their illness.
Cancer Care
Guys & St Thomas Trust is part of Kings Health Partners (KHP) which is one of only six Academic Health Science Centres in the UK accredited by the Department of Health, with a vision to achieve excellence in clinical care, research & teaching. KHP is aspiring to transform cancer care in the region with a 5-year strategy underway.
Radiotherapy
The Radiotherapy department at the cancer centre on Guys campus and the cancer centre at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup is equipped with 8 True Beam linacs (including one Stx unit with HDMLC), 3 CT simulators, 1 PET/CT and a new planning system. The Clinical Oncology Department at Guys and St Thomas offers a wide range of specialised radiotherapy techniques including; IMRT, IGRT, VMAT, 4D-RT, SABR, HDR brachytherapy, LDR seed brachytherapy, TSEBT, TBI and SRS.
Guys Cancer Centre is accredited as a comprehensive cancer centre by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes and a Cancer Research UK centre by CRUK.
Chemotherapy
Number of ambulatory day care beds/chairs (outpatients)
44 chairs (these are based in the Cancer Day Unit and the Haematology Day Unit respectively).
10 beds (these are based in several locations across the Day Units)
In patient care
There are 802 beds at the St Thomass site and 288 beds at Guys site- total of 1090 beds across site. 84 (core beds, made up of Medical/Clinical Oncology, Clinical Haematology, Breast & Thoracic)
Duties and responsibilities
Training of junior staff:
The post holders will take responsibility for the training and direction of junior staff allocated to him/her under aegis of the training plan that that post holders has agreed with their supervising consultant.
Teaching:
The post holders will be expected to contribute as appropriate in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Clinical Governance:
All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management. They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal.
Educational Programme:
Neither the London Deanery not the Royal College of Radiologists accredits this post for postgraduate training. However the post holder will be expected to attend and contribute to educational activities e.g. departmental meetings, x-ray meetings, pathology meetings, multidisciplinary meetings, journal clubs etc.
