Resident Medical Officer - Oncology (9am to 5pm: Monday to Friday) in London

Resident Doctor in Oncology at Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5 0TU

Salary: £85,000 a year – full time equivalent

Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday

The post holder will work Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm on the Oncology Ward with a second RMO. Our oncology centre provides highly innovative treatment for patients with cancer. Through partnership with Genesis Care (our partners in radiotherapy), the post holder will have the opportunity to work with internationally renowned oncologists. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted to ensure best practice and to deliver the best treatment option for the individual patient.

The centre consists of a chemotherapy day unit, radiotherapy department and a 29-bedded inpatient ward (including 2 radioiodine suites) with close links to our palliative care service. We also run an Acute Oncology Service and a Chemotherapy Day Unit. Our aim is to provide high-quality treatment for cancer patients from the UK and abroad in line with best clinical practice and within a legal framework.

Cromwell Hospital is home to world renowned private Oncologists, based in London, specialising in many tumour types. The post holder will work together with specialist nurses and technicians, and private oncologists as part of a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care. It is essential that the post holder has a good knowledge of dealing with medical emergencies and is able to recognise and escalate complications following Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy and has a low threshold for escalating to the oncology consultant in charge of the patient.

You will be expected to:

• Conduct a daily ward round in collaboration with the nurse in charge, for all patients that have not already been seen by a consultant.
• Complete any jobs at the request of the consultant.
• Be the first point of contact for consultants and nursing staff caring for oncology patients.
• Clerk patients admitted under an oncologist.
• Work closely as a team with the other RMOs (cardiology/medicine, surgery and ITU), asking for assistance where necessary.
• Effectively hand-over with Resident Doctors at the end of shift, particularly regarding those patients giving cause for concern.

Person Specification

Applicants for this post should demonstrate how their skills and experience meet the following Person Specification.

Experience and Knowledge

• Essential
• Good understanding of both spoken and written English
• Broad training in all aspects of medicine
• Ability to manage the acutely unwell and deteriorating patient
• Ability to recognise the dying patient and administer end of life care
• Evidence of an interest in research
• Experience of working with oncology patients
• Desirable
• Experience of working with stem cell transplant patients

Skills and abilities

• Essential
• Analytical skills
• Sound knowledge, experience and competence in the management of oncology patients including those with haematological malignancy
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to develop personal research projects and exercise initiative
• Ability to present at conferences and seminars with authority and coherence
• Attendance at internal seminars clinical audit, mortality and morbidity meetings
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write technical reports clearly and succinctly for publication
• Ability to demonstrate innovative and original thinking
• Ability to organise and prioritise work with minimal supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines

Qualifications

• Essential
• Degree in Medicine MBBS or equivalent
• Full Registration with GMC
• Trained in medicine to core medical trainee level or equivalent
• Up to date ALS certificate
• Experience of Oncology Services in Independent Sector or NHS services
• Has achieved or is preparing to take MRCP Part 1
• Desirable
• Other specialist experience e.g. ATLS
• Experience of prescribing Chemotherapy on an electronic system
• Database literate with knowledge of statistics
• Evidence of research publications, awards, posters presentations
• Full MRCP
• Must have Occupational Health clearance

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately. Cromwell Hospital is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating discrimination. All employees are expected to adhere to the principles set out in its Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy, Promoting Race Equality Policy and Disability Policy and Bullying and Harassment Policy and all other relevant guidance/practice frameworks.

Job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Clinical Services

Locations: Cromwell Hospital London