This is a new post within the Kent Oncology Centre, based in Canterbury, providing services to patients from East Kent.
The post holder will join our team of medical and clinical oncologists providing Oncology services from a East or West Kent base. We have a well-established oncology research department, providing the opportunity for the post holder to run and develop clinical trials.
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
The Trust provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 460,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Its major hospitals are Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital.
Duties of this post will be to support the consultant service across a range of tumour types:
1. Attending Consultant led out-patient clinics (both in the Centre and Peripheral Clinics), and undertaking related admin and chemotherapy prescribing.
2. Supervision of SHOs and ward patients.
3. Review of patients attending for chemotherapy and radiotherapy if required by nursing or radiography staff.
4. Teaching of SHOs and medical students.
5. Involvement in clinical governance and audit activities.
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