• Job Description

  Req#: C9359-25-0331?language=en&page=726&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  This post iswithin the Kent Oncology Centre, based in Maidstone, providing services to patients from East and West Kent.

  The post holder will join our team of medical and clinical oncologists to take a major interest in Melanoma, providing Oncology services from a West Kent base. As a member of the Kent Oncology Centre there will be a commitment to participate fully in a Kent wide approach to the delivery of cancer care. This includes attendance at governance meetings, multi-disciplinary team meetings and the practice of cross-referral with other site specialists.

  Job description pending royal college approval.

  Main duties of the job

  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.

  About us

  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was formed in April 2000. It consists of two District General Hospitals based at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells providing services to approximately 450,000 people living in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Sussex and the surrounding areas.

  Its major hospitals are The Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury near Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone Hospital. The Kent Oncology Centre in West Kent is based at Maidstone Hospital. The Trust manages the Oncology centre based at Maidstone and Canterbury. These services form an integral part of Kent's Cancer Services.

  Date posted

  09 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Consultant

  Salary

  £105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum /pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  359-MSD7055073

  Job locations

  Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone

  ME16 9QQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to job planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.

  To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.

  To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.

  To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.

  We encourage the inclusion of research in normal clinical work but also keen to support developing research activities for interested applicants.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to job planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.

  To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.

  To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.

  To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.

  We encourage the inclusion of research in normal clinical work but also keen to support developing research activities for interested applicants.

  Person Specification

  Education

  Essential

  • Full GMC registration

  Desirable

  • Higher qualification in Medicine
  • Clinical Experience in relevant tumour sites
  • Research degree (MD/PhD).

  Experience

  Essential

  • Clinical Training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in specialty.
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

  Desirable

  • Experience in Clinical Audit and Research.
  • Experience in medical education.

  Skills

  Essential

  • Enthusiasm for developing tumour site specialisation and Cancer Services in Kent
  • Ability to organise and manage

  Desirable

  • An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Dedication to maintaining and developing the cancer care group in co-operation with other hospital departments.
  • Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, coaching and motivating.

  Personal

  Essential

  • Ability to work in a team
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Caring attitude to patients
  • Commitment to continuing medical education
  • An awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses

  Person Specification

  Education

  Essential

  • Full GMC registration

  Desirable

  • Higher qualification in Medicine
  • Clinical Experience in relevant tumour sites
  • Research degree (MD/PhD).

  Experience

  Essential

  • Clinical Training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in specialty.
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

  Desirable

  • Experience in Clinical Audit and Research.
  • Experience in medical education.

  Skills

  Essential

  • Enthusiasm for developing tumour site specialisation and Cancer Services in Kent
  • Ability to organise and manage

  Desirable

  • An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Dedication to maintaining and developing the cancer care group in co-operation with other hospital departments.
  • Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, coaching and motivating.

  Personal

  Essential

  • Ability to work in a team
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Caring attitude to patients
  • Commitment to continuing medical education
  • An awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

  Address

  Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone

  ME16 9QQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

  Address

  Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone

  ME16 9QQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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