Consultant in Clinical Oncology (Lung/Breast)

Required to fill this new post within the Clinical Oncology Department at St Jamess University Hospital.

This is a substantive 10 PA Clinical Oncology Consultant post with a special interest in Lung and Breast cancers, delivering both systemic therapy and radiotherapy. The post will support established and experienced multi-disciplinary non-surgical Oncology Lung and Breast teams. The Lung work will be delivered both at the Leeds Cancer Centre and at a peripheral Trust Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. The Breast work will be based at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust. Leeds Cancer Centre is one of the most prestigious oncology departments in the UK, providing an ideal infrastructure for high quality multidisciplinary cancer services and ensuring the best outcomes for the catchment population of West Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Cancer Network.

There will be opportunities to contribute to Lung and Breast MDTs in addition to departmental meetings, teaching, research and service developments. This is an exciting time to join our Lung and Breast services as we are currently looking at pathway redesign and developing the services and the wider teams.

To deliver care to patients with Lung cancers through: Provision of Lung and Breast Out-patient clinics Responsibility for the delivery of radiotherapy Responsibility for the delivery of systemic therapy Contribution to specialist MDT meetings and QA meetings Provision of in-patient care for Lung patients Contribution to the LTHT clinical oncology on call rota