Consultant in Gynaecology with interest in Urgent Suspected Cancer

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Company: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is one of three current consultant posts, part of a planned expansion to meet increased demand in urgent suspected cancer. The department is seeking a capable and motivated doctor who enjoys working in a tertiary referral service and wishes to effect change and improve care for patients within this service The postholder will join an existing team of 18 NHS Gynaecologists / Gynaeoncologists and 5 University of Oxford Clinical Academics, who together provide both a local gynaecology service to the population of Oxford and a highly specialist tertiary service in Gynae-oncology, Urogynaecology, reproductive medicine, endometriosis.This post is a Trust wide position with clinical sessions at the Horton Hospital in Banbury and the John Radcliffe Hospital sites.

The focus of this post is to oversee and streamline care for women referred on an urgent suspected cancer pathway. The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen the link between the benign gynaecology diagnostic service and the Gynaeoncology team. The successful candidate will have the ATSM in oncology and be competent at laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Location The post-holder’s duties will be primarily at the Horton General and John Radcliffe Hospitals but it is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust provides gynaecology services across three sites (John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Horton Hospital Banbury and the Churchill Hospital, Oxford). The successful applicant may be required to work across all sites. The successful candidate will ideally be able to support all urgent suspected cancer pathways, including hysteroscopy, colposcopy and surgery, both open and laparoscopically.

It would be an advantage to be able to support complex benign surgeries as well. The successful candidate will be expected to keep up to date with emergency gynaecology, reviewing patients in the ‘hot clinic’ and giving advice to the specialist Early Pregnancy team when on call.

The post-holder will be expected to undertake theatre lists (the majority of the surgery undertaken is minimal access) at the John Radcliffe hospital (including regular (1:4) weekend lists) and at the Horton Hospital in Banbury as required.

The post holder will manage in-patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital and undertake gynaecology on-call duties of no more frequent than 1:10, paid at a Band A supplement. Some clinics may take place outside of the acute trust and it is anticipated that over time more clinics will be located elsewhere.





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