Consultant Clinical Oncologist - Breast & Skin Oncologist


Company:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Oct 2026
Closing date:	6 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated teamas a Consultant Clinical Oncologist. This post is available for recruitment as soon as possible.

The current opportunity is for a Consultant Clinical Oncologist with an interest in Breast and Skin Cancer to patients served by the directorate. This may include providing services at NCCC-Carlisle.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

To provide tertiary-level oncology care in a teaching hospital’s cancer centre and peripheral clinics. There will be a commitment to providing general oncological care as part of a general oncology on call rota.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Rachel Pearsonvia email atrachel.pearson1@nhs.net.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Clinical:

· Provide oncology advice to the relevant MDT and to patients with these cancers

· Prescribing of and supervision of prescribing of systemic anticancer therapy and radiotherapy

· On call cover for general oncological emergencies and provision of advice in and out of hours, to non-specialist teams managing patients with cancer

· Out-patient clinic, day unit and ward management.

Administrative:

· Participation in the directorate clinical governance processes including reporting into the Trust mortality database

· Engagement with all the administrative electronic systems needed to deliver patient care.

Research:

· There is an active research programme within the directorate with links to the Sir Bobby Robson Unit at Freeman Hospital, the late phase research team within the research and development directorate and to Newcastle University. Contribution to the research programme or further developments and collaborations will be actively encouraged.

Teaching:

· There will be opportunity to develop teaching skills within the directorate and within the wider trust environment.

· Bedside and clinical teaching of undergraduate students will form part of the responsibilities of the consultant

· Clinical training and supervision of Trust junior doctors, Deanery trainees and ACPs will be expected.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Oct 2026

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