Oncology Vice-Chief, Head of London Market

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Job Summary: Reporting to the Market Chief of Staff and indirectly to the Institute Chief, the Oncology Vice Chief serves as the doctor leader of an Institute across a market, spanning responsibility across all departments within an Institute. Responsible for doctor practice management within the market, the Oncology Vice Chief serves as key liaison between market leadership and Institute leadership teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the clinical design and development of a world leading Oncology service.
• Lead on recruitment of a comprehensive leading Oncology Department with coverage across all service dependent specialties.
• Responsible for the performance of the Oncology Institute across the market.
• Accountable to Institute-based performance goals for growth within a market including for safety, quality and patient experience and patients served.
• Works closely with commercial teams (Marketing and BD) and other functions (Regulatory, Market Access, Legal) to align on business plans and strategies.
• Serves as the operational leader for provider groups across departments.
• Acts as the leadership connection between teams across markets, Institutes, divisions and departments to meet strategic goals and key initiatives for that Institute and market.
• Provides indirect supervision and input into annual performance reviews for doctors in the market.

Experience:

• Advanced leadership experience within a matrixed health care environment, preferably in a large Oncology practice or hospital setting.
• Proven history of working with commercial focus and strategic alignment within the Oncology market.
• Research experience.
• Current NHS Teaching Hospital appointment.
• Established London private practice and recognition with all private medical insurers.

Education:

• Full active General Medical Council (GMC) Registration.
• FRCR or MRCP oncology and a higher MD or PhD.
• Fellowship Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) or equivalent; specific area dependent on clinical specialty.
• Inclusion on the specialist register for Clinical or Medical Oncology.

Languages: Oral and written communication in English.

Certifications: GMC registration, license to practice medicine and registration on the specialist register in the United Kingdom. Credentialed as a consultant/specialist in respective area of expertise in the United Kingdom.

Complexity of Work:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate to a large, diverse audience.
• Ability to think strategically and solve complex problems in a matrixed environment.
• Requires agility, influence, emotional intelligence and the ability to drive results.
• Demonstrates and models inspirational, inclusive, and truly human leadership behaviours.
• Navigates a complex, global regulatory landscape.
• Builds a culture of continuous improvement and risk management.
• Ability to treat dotted lines as solid lines.

Personal Protective Equipment: Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

Safeguarding: All caregivers have a personal and a professional responsibility to identify and report abuse. A patient or fellow caregiver may disclose information of being abused or suspected abuse. A caregiver may also witness abuse or simply have concerns of abuse taking place. Should any caregiver suspect abuse then it is vital that the CCL safeguarding policy and procedure is immediately implemented. It is the caregiver’s responsibility to ensure they are fully compliant with CCL's safeguarding and training and read, understood and adhere to the CCL’s Safeguarding Policy and Protocols.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.