The Christie NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 3 million people within the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network, providing surgery, radiotherapy and complex chemotherapy services.

Applications are welcomed for a 12 month SABR clinical fellow post commencing August 2021 in Clinical Oncology, based at The Christie NHS FT, Manchester, UK Europe's largest single site cancer hospital.

This post is for 40 hours per week as a Clinical Fellow for the development and implementation of Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) within the organisation for a fixed term period of 12 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months. The post holder will be employed by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and will be based at The Christie. The successful applicant would be expected to work alongside consultants and trainees in out-patient clinics, supervising Technical Radiotherapy delivery and performing on-treatment reviews and follow-up assessments.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be involved in all aspects of the management of patients with HBT and oligometastatic disease. These include (but are not limited to) the screening of referrals, active participation in MDT, assessment of patients, consent, review of patients on pre-treatment, treatment, planning of SABR, review and approval of SABR plans, technical radiotherapy development and post treatment and ePROMS. All of this will be done under the clinical supervision of the designated SABR team consultant

They will be expected to teach junior medical staff, medical students and nurses on occasion.

They will be expected to take part in audit and research.

There is no on call responsibility with this post

About us

The Clinical Oncology medical establishment currently consists of 53 Consultants who run the clinical service and research practice.

There are 6 clinicians within clinical oncology treating HPB and oligometastatic tumour sites with SABR

There is also a team of 18 SpRs plus Academic Clinical Fellows.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description/person specification for further details of the main responsibilities and job role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• MB BCh or Equivalent; full FRCR (UK)
• GMC registration

Desirable

• MRCP (UK)

Research / Publications
Essential

• Research awareness

Desirable

• Evidence of enthusiasm and participation in research

Experience
Essential

• At least three years post full registration in General Medicine
• Completed a minimum 3 years Clinical Oncology training

Desirable

• Previous SABR

Management / Audit
Essential

• Understands principles of audit
• Ability and willingness to work in multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Skills in time/resource management

Personal Skills
Essential

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Professional demeanour
• Confident in ability but knows own limitations
• Evidence of general medicine competence
• Good communication skills with patients and colleagues
• Technical ability
• Evidence of interest in the subject of oncology and insight into the nature of cancer treatments
• Hard-working and enthusiastic

Desirable

• Ability to effectively/efficiently deal with diverse clinical problems which affect cancer patients

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