Locum Specialty Doctor in Medical Oncology 8PAs

To work with the incumbent team to deliver oncology services within the Northeast and Cumbria region with a particular emphasis on treating breast and thoracic malignancies.

You must be clinically experienced in medical oncology and be competent in the prescribing and monitoring of SACT delivery. An interest in Breast and Thoracic oncology would be particularly helpful. The postholder would be a member of all appropriate multidisciplinary teams and would be expected to contribute to education and training as well as research wherever it is relevant within the subspeciality.

You must be a fully registered medical practitioner with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of application. You will have a minimum of four years' postgraduate training, at least two years of which is in a relevant specialty.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.