The post holder will be based in the Thyroid Unit under the supervision of Dr Kate Newbold.The post holder will be based predominantly at the Chelsea site but with some requirement to travel to the Sutton site and with laboratory work at the Chelsea ICR site and UCLH.. The consultants on the team are Dr Kate Newbold, Dr Kee Wong, Professor Dae Kim, Dr Daniel Morganstein and Professor Vinidh Paleri. The Laboratory work is supported by Dr Isaac Garcia-Murillas (ICR), Dr Rob Hynds (UCLH) and Dr Maxime Tarabichi (IRIBHM, Belgium). In order to fulfil the responsibilities of this post, the appointee will be required to demonstrate that they have experience in the management of Head, Neck and Thyroid cancers.
The post-holder will develop the following experience during the tenure of the post:
· Clinical Management of Thyroid Cancers
· Presentation, publication and peer review
· Audit and guideline development
• Develop clinical research skills in order to propose, design and develop academic institutional and/or multicentre clinical trials with support from the consultants and experienced statisticians and trial managers working within the Head and Neck -oncology unit
• Develop grant writing skills for peer reviewed funding and/or endorsement of academic clinical and translational studies. This includes understanding how to appropriately cost a study and attribute the costs of healthcare research as required by major research funders
• Develop skills to design translational research protocols in collaboration with clinician scientists and statisticians
The Royal Marsden is a world leader in cancer research, treatment and education. Together with our academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), we are the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and the only National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre specialising in cancer in the UK.
Our mission is to continue to make a national and international contribution to cancer research and treatment, so that more people are cured and quality of life is improved for those with cancer. The Royal Marsden therefore plays an important role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education and leading-edge treatment.
The Trust’s annual budget is £360 million and we employ over 3,500 staff, including 335 medical staff, across two sites located in Chelsea and Sutton (Surrey). Over 50,000 patients attend The Royal Marsden each year. We provide community services across the Borough of Sutton. We have a Chemotherapy Medical Daycare Unit at Kingston Hospital.
We have a reputation for delivering high quality performance. We were ranked joint first in the CQC national inpatient survey results, above average in national cancer patient experience survey and ranked first amongst teaching hospitals in the UK for our staff survey results.
For further information and duties for this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Feb 2025
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