Directorate: Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Services
Location: North West Cancer Centre, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry
Contract and Hours: Temporary / Full Time (40hpw 10PA’s)
Closing date: 6 March 2026 until 31 March 2027
Job purpose
The purpose of this post will be to facilitate delivery of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and inpatient care to the patient cohort of North West Cancer Centre in line with the agreed tumour sites. In addition, the postholder will provide sessional input to the Acute Oncology Services via the ‘Consultant of the day’ model within NWCC
Job summary
The post holder will join the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) Cancer Services Team and share in the collective responsibility for the provision of a high quality clinical and medical oncology service for patients attending the NWCC. The postholder will provide leadership and engagement within the multi-disciplinary team. The postholder will contribute to the development of excellence in clinical practice through audit, research and undergraduate/postgraduate education and training.
The post holder will contribute to the development and management of the Western Trust Cancer Services in a way that meets the needs to deliver a service which is patient centred and holistic. The postholder will take part in outpatient clinics which include new, review and radiotherapy and SACT patients.
The postholder will undertake inpatient and outpatient work and attend MDTs. For the agreed tumour sites that the postholder has a specialist interest within. The postholder will have an opportunity to develop their specialist interests in line with the service need. The postholder will have 1PA designated as Acute Oncology (Consultant of the day) and supporting PAs may include protocol development and clinical leadership roles.
SPAs will be allocated for audit, governance, morbidity and mortality meetings, clinical trials and senior medical staff meetings.
Main responsibilities
- To be responsible for the assessment, treatment and management of patients referred to the oncology team, providing inpatient care and outpatient clinics.
- To provide a consultative medical advisory service to other professionals within the Western Trust and in primary care.
- To participate in the development of regional and local oncology services in line with strategic Western Trust guidelines and policy. This will involve representing the Western Trust at Regional and National Strategy and Forum groups, and regional structures (e.g. Northern Ireland Cancer Network Groups and the Regional Radiotherapy Clinical reference Group).
- To develop and participate in the multi-professional approach to patient care.
- To participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.
- Patients with complications of radiotherapy and/or SACT are accommodated in Ward 50 in the North West Cancer Centre (up to 27 beds), a mixed haematology and oncology ward. The oncology team will have responsibility for in-patients admitted under the care of oncology.
- To provide an acute oncology service that will include visiting patients in other wards and providing support for the existing medical / surgical team.
- Participate in an on-call rota will be 1 in 11 (Category A)
For complete details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.
