Consultant Medical Oncology in Gastrointestinal Cancer

The post is for a locum, less than full time (8.5 PA) Consultant Medical Oncologist with specialist interest in in gastrointestinal cancer with a focus on colorectal, oesophageal and gastric cancer within the Department of Oncology at St George's Hospital. Within the Oncology department, the post-holder will work alongside the Upper Gastrointestinal oncology consultants (Dr Jason Chow and Dr Anna-Mary Young) and work alongside the Lower Gastrointestinal oncology consultants (Dr Fiona Loft and Dr Dimitra Repana). The post-holder's mentor for this new post will be Dr Fiona Lofts to help integrate the post-holder into St George's Healthcare - potentially a new trust - particularly important if he/she is a new consultant transitioning from Specialist Trainee status. Mentorship meetings will be formalised protected time and will occur weekly for six weeks then monthly and will be shared with Dr Jason Chow, Care Group Lead.

Please see attached JD for further details regarding the post. Break down of PA, other programme activities, regular meetings and proposed time table.

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. In addition to acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's Healthcare serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.