# Locum Consultant Medical Oncologist in Breast & Lung

**Company**: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Hampstead Heath
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Trust as a locum Consultant Medical Oncologist for 1 year maternity cover for breast and lung cancer.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest Trusts in London with a well-established national and international reputation for clinical excellence and world-class care. In January 2025, the Royal Free London and North Middlesex University Hospitals Trusts merged, and we now deliver care to over 2 million people a year through our four main health units. There are chemotherapy infusion suites to treat cancer patients at The Royal Free, Finchley Memorial, North Middlesex and Chase Farm health units whilst radiotherapy is delivered at the Royal Free and North Middlesex health units.

The Trust is one of the highest volume providers of breast and lung cancer care within London.

The post-holder will join the oncology team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) as an 8PA locum consultant in breast and lung cancer. The post will be working at The Royal Free and Barnet health units. The successful candidate will join an existing multi-disciplinary team in breast and lung cancer. The post holder will support the delivery of systemic therapy in breast cancer at Royal Free and lung cancer at Barnet hospital. Additionally, the position has the opportunity to lead the AOS service at Barnet hospital.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.

**Person Specification:**

- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

- Membership of the Royal College of Physicians

- Accreditation by the RCP or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT (or equivalent) at time of interview

- Eligible for GMC registration and entry onto the GMC Specialist Register in the area of Medical Oncology

- Experience of breast, lung and acute oncology

- Experience and an interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year

- Part-time, fixed-term contract for 12 months

**Requirements:**

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments

- Knowledge of the Clinical Governance Framework of the NHS (including research governance) and understanding of current changes in the organisation and management of structures of the NHS

- Member of a medical defence union

**Desirable Skills:**

- Experience and commitment to multi-disciplinary working

- Wide experience in oncology

- Clinical audit experience

- Excellent communication skills - verbal and written. Good command of written and spoken English

- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of resource and budgetary management within the NHS

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Oncology
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Systemic Therapy

### Nice to have
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Oncology
- Clinical audit
- Communication skills
- Resource management

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