Consultant Radiation Oncologist

The Kathleen Kilgour Centre is located in the beautiful Bay of Plenty, one of New Zealand’s most popular holiday destinations. The district boasts a temperate, subtropical climate with outstanding natural beauty. The Bay offers a relaxed outdoor lifestyle and easy access to world class mountain biking, white sand surf beaches and hiking tracks. Access to ski fields, is a 3-hour drive inland. Tauranga is one of New Zealand’s main centres for business, international trade, culture, fashion and horticultural science. All this and only a two-hour drive to New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.

The Bay of Plenty catchment area services almost 240,000 people spanning along our coastline from Waihi Beach to Cape Runaway and inland through Kawerau and the Murapara district.

About us

The Kathleen Kilgour Centre is a Radiation Oncology facility dedicated to providing international best practice in the field of radiation therapy using state of the art technology. Treatment is available to private and publically funded patients and covers all adult malignancies.

The department has a wide-bore CT-simulator, 2 Versa HD linear accelerators each with a six degrees of freedom couch, ABC deep inspiratory breath hold, HDR Brachytherapy, a Monaco 5 treatment planning system and MOSAIQ patient management system.

Our stereotactic programme currently includes treatment to central nervous system/spine, bone, nodal metastasis and lung malignancies. We are currently developing a liver stereotactic RT programme. We use HDR brachytherapy to treat gynaecological, prostate and skin malignancies, the latter using Valencia applicators.

The Kathleen Kilgour Centre currently has six Radiation Oncologists with a variety of specialist interests in all adult malignancies. Supporting them are Radiation Therapists, Medical Physicists, Radiation Oncology Nursing and Administration. We practice in collegial partnership with Medical Oncologists, Hematologists and Palliative Care Physicians in both the public and private sectors.

The Role

Two positions are available. A permanent, full time vacancy and a 1 year fixed term contract position to cover planned leave. If you are a suitably qualified Consultant Radiation Oncologist that is keen to join an energetic and enthusiastic team, then please apply. You must be familiar with IMRT, VMAT, IGRT and SBRT techniques. You will need to hold the FRANZCR, or an equivalent qualification that would enable registration as a specialist Radiation Oncologist by the Medical Council of New Zealand. Excellent communication skills and a collaborative working style is essential.

Research and educational opportunities also exist through partnership with the University of Auckland. We are active participants in Australasian and international cooperative group clinical trials.

We offer a nationally competitive remuneration package which is available on request. We also offer flexible working hours that allows you to enjoy the wonders of working and living in the beautiful Bay of Plenty. Assistance registering with the Medical Council of New Zealand can be provided.

Please email your letter of interest and CV for this vacancy stipulating clearly which position you are applying for, to Tracey Church, Business Administrator

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