CANDIDATE BRIEFING PACK Consultant in Clinical Oncology

Exceptional people, outstanding care

CANDIDATE BRIEFING PACK

Consultant in Clinical Oncology


Dear Applicant,

Thank you for showing an interest in joining our growing oncology department (the Kent

Oncology Centre), providing oncology care to the population of Kent.

As newly-appointed Cancer Alliance Executive Lead for Kent and Medway and Chair of the

Elective Recovery Programme, my biggest priority is ensuring that our cancer patients have

access to a quality and equitable service across the region. As your prospective Chief

Executive, you can be assured that I, along with my colleagues on the Board, will be supporting

both you individually and the wider Kent Oncology Centre team to deliver exceptional care to

our patients and drive forward our oncology strategy.

I am truly passionate about improving our cancer outcomes, and we have made an incredible

start. Since 2019, we’ve become one of the top performing Trusts in the country, giving our

patients some of the fastest access to treatment in the entire country and going on to hit our

national cancer standards month by month throughout the pandemic.

We have come so far, but we need your help to take our oncology services to the next level.

You would be joining us at a key time when the opportunities to make a real difference for the

future have never been greater or so important. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a

challenging time for the whole NHS. Yet our people have taken the opportunity to think

differently and adapt to continue providing compassionate, inclusive high-quality care to

patients.

If you are compassionate, inclusive and innovative and are looking for a position that will

provide an opportunity to play an important and influential leadership role, not only within MTW

but across the wider health economy, to improve patient outcomes and experience in Kent, why

not get in touch? It would be great to hear from you.

Best wishes,

Miles Scott, Chief Executive Officer

Introduction from Chief

Executive Officer,

Miles Scott


Introduction from Dr Henry Taylor (Chief of

Service), Katherine Goodwin (DDO),

and Charlotte Wadey (DDNQ)

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in working with us at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in

the Kent Oncology Centre. Charlotte, Katie and I, along with Amanda (Williams), our Head of

Radiotherapy and Stephen (Duck), our Director of Medical Physics, are absolutely committed to

and passionate about multi-disciplinary working. We operate a clinically-led department that

puts frontline staff at the heart of decision making about our services. Should you be

successful, following our recruitment process, we look forward to welcoming you as a clinical

leader in our department. We hope to support your growth both individually and to the

betterment of our patients and services.

In recent years, we have become one of the leading cancer centres in the country, consistently

reaching our cancer performance targets month after month. To achieve this, our cancer

services team has overhauled our approach, with a huge focus on putting patients and staff

first. They’ve implemented a range of patient-centred, effective improvements, and new

pathways that have enabled us to make high quality and sustainable changes to the way we

deliver care and treatment. We have maintained chemotherapy and radiotherapy provisions

throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst consistently maintaining our ‘super green’ status as

a centre.

But we want to go even further; by dedicating time and resources to developing our trainees,

doubling the number of registrars in the division, bringing in many new CNSs and growing our

own nursing and radiography consultants, our consultants are more supported than ever. We

will strive to support you in every way we can. There is always more to do, both in-house and

regionally, to improve the care we provide to our patients. However, we can’t do this without an

effective team, and we very much hope to have you as a part of this.

As part of our team, we will work closely with you

to provide mentorship, support and progression in

your role, from allowing you the time and resources

to undertake your own research and alongside our

developing research department, to supporting you

to pursue teaching and charitable interests, to

building a flexible job plan to suit your personal

circumstances - we sincerely look forward to

welcoming you on board.

Our Warmest Wishes,

Dr Henry Taylor (CoS and Clinical Lead for

Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance), Katherine

Goodwin (DDO), and Charlotte Wadey (DDNQ)


Job Description

Introduction

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was formed

in April 2000. It consists of two District General

Hospitals based at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells

providing services to approximately 450,000 people

living in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Sussex and

the surrounding areas.

Its major hospitals are The Tunbridge Wells Hospital at

Pembury near Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone Hospital

in Barming. The Kent Oncology Centre in West Kent is

based at Maidstone Hospital and in East Kent is based

at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. These services form

an integral part of Kent’s Cancer Services.

The post holder will join our team of medical and clinical

oncologists to take major interests across preferred

tumour sites, and providing Oncology services across

the whole of Kent. We also have a well-established

oncology research department, providing the opportunity

for the post holder to run and develop clinical trials.

As a member of the Kent Oncology Centre there will be

a commitment to participate fully in a Kent wide

approach to the delivery of cancer care. This includes

attendance at governance meetings, multi-disciplinary

team meetings and the practice of cross-referral with

other site specialists.

POST

Full Time (10 sessions) Consultant in

Clinical/Medical Oncology

Cancer Division

Consultant

Maidstone Hospital (Hermitage Lane, Barming)

and/or Kent and Canterbury Hospital (Ethlbert

Road, Canterbury)

DIVISION


Job Plan (Pending College Approval)

A clinical oncologist job plan will include these core elements (10 PAs):

- Three standard clinics

- At least one PA of radiotherapy planning time

- Two SPAs

- MDT attendance for the relevant tumour sites and correlating administrative time

We aim to offer a supportive and flexible working pattern, which fits around your lifestyle and commitments:

- Working from home and utilising digital platforms to accommodate virtual working for admin time

and/or virtual clinics (Telephone Clinics / Attend Anywhere Platform)

- Undertaking evening or weekend clinics and admin time to offer flexibility in working days

- Peer mentoring through the wider trust programme and internally through our current consultant

workforce. All new members of the team will be supported by a substantive consultant during the

first year in the role

- Weekly tumour site specific peer review meetings with Oncology consultants

- Opportunity to develop joint specialist clinics and peer-working with other Oncology consultants

- Supporting and developing individual specialist interests including research, leadership and

educational responsibilities

Below include examples of flexible clinical oncologist job plans (10PAs):

Monday – Friday (illustrative)

Day Mon (Virtual)

Tues (Virtual/On-

site)

Wed (On-site / Virtual)

Thurs (Virtual)

Fri (Virtual)

am 09:00 – 13:00 SPA

09:00-13:00 SPA

09:00 – 13:00 Clinic

09:00 – 13:00

(Virtual)

Clinic

09:00 – 13:00

RT Planning

pm 13:00 -17:00 Admin

13:00 – 17:00 Flexible Clinic

13:00 – 17:00 Admin

13:00 – 17:00

MDT /

Admin

13:00 – 17:00 Admin


Evening and Weekend working (illustrative and days can be discussed on an individual basis)

Day Mon (Virtual /

On-site)

Tues (Virtual /

On-site)

Weds (Virtual /

On-site)

Thurs

Fri

Sat (Virtual

/On-site)

Sun

Am

09:00 – 13:00

RT Planning

09:00 – 13:00

SPA

09:00 – 12:00

Admin

09:00 – 13:00

(Virtual) Clinic

Pm 13:00 -17:00

MDT / Admin

13:00 – 17:00

Clinic

12:00 – 16:00

SPA

13:00 – 17:00

Admin

Evening 17:00 –

20:00 Admin

17:00 –

19:00 Admin

16:00 –

20:00 Evening

Clinic

On-call duties covering Oncology at Maidstone Hospital (with telephone support to other hospitals in East and West Kent) 1:26 attracting on call supplement 0.5% by local agreement. Time off in lieu will be granted in the event of

needing to attend the hospital during the weekend on call period.

The job plan is subject to annual review, which is the responsibility of the Directorate Clinical Director. This may be changed according to the needs of the service and subject to consultation with colleagues.


The Kent Oncology Centre, receives approximately

8,000 new patients every year and increasing, and is

within the top 25% of Trusts in the UK for cancer waiting

times, meeting the 85% 62-day national standard

consistently since August 2019, and our 2-week-wait

target since September 2019. The Centre has an

income of circa £50m and is home to a custom designed

department at Maidstone which opened in April 1993

and dedicated radiotherapy and outpatient facilities at

Canterbury as part of the main District General Hospital,

which was upgraded in 2012.

Our chemotherapy units, based at Maidstone and

Tunbridge Wells Hospitals, work alongside a dedicated

cancer pharmacy and aseptics unit and are run by our

experienced chemotherapy nursing team.

Due to recent Health Education England (HEE) Funding

we have been able to purchase five new state of the art

Varian Trubeam Linear Accelerators across the Kent

Oncology Centre. Over the 2 sites we have 9 Linear

Accelerator Treatment Machines and 3 CT Planning

Simulators. Many of our services are Radiographer led

and we also benefit from having a Consultant

Radiographer on the Canterbury site and the Maidstone

site.

The Treatment Radiographers have all been adopted by

Macmillan and we have a Macmillan Information Centre

on the Maidstone site and are supported on both sites

by Macmillan Specialist Radiographers and Macmillan

Support Workers. The Treatment Radiographers have

all been adopted by Macmillan and we have a

Macmillan Information Centre on the Maidstone site and

are supported on both sites by Macmillan Specialist

Radiographers and Macmillan Support Workers

Kent Oncology Centre

The Kent Oncology Centre is located at Maidstone

Hospital and at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital in

Canterbury. The Kent Cancer Network is a

network of Cancer Units across Kent and parts of

East Sussex, which provide District General

Hospital based cancer care. These are as follows

(please see map):-

1) Medway Hospital (Medway Maritime NHS Trust)

2) Darent Valley Hospital (Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust)

3) Kent and Canterbury Hospital (East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust)

4) Maidstone Hospital (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust)

5) Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust)

6) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust)

7) William Harvey Hospital (East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust)


What can we offer you?

At MTW, we recognise that our staff are our most valuable

asset and we provide a range of benefits to support them

and throughout their career and time with us.

As well as this, we offer a ‘Relocation Package’, whereby up

to £8000 of financial support is available to enable successful

candidates to accept an offer of substantive employment with

the Trust which requires them to relocate their home address

to the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area. Relocation

expenses may be payable to the successful candidate

providing eligibility criteria is met. This will be discussed with

short-listed candidates during their interview.

Pay related

Up to a 12 months

sickness benefit

and adoption pay

NHS Pension Scheme

Ill health retirement benefit

Total Reward Statement (TRS)

(via salary sacrifice)

Health related

service

Flu and COVID vaccination

scheme

Fast track physio referrals

clinical services

Health and wellbeing checks

including counselling for staff and

families

support in-house

Physical

Free refreshments

On-site canteens

Night café coming soon

Breakout areas

Staff picnic areas

Free car parking

Tonbridge station and

Tunbridge Wells Hospital

On-site Library

Film club

Cycle to work scheme

Long Service Awards

Employee and Team of the

Month Awards

Staff Star Awards

Development

focussed

Programme

of

Staff

Leadership Development

management

Opportunities

Wide range of Apprenticeships

Annual Staff Appraisal

Personal Development Plans

Equity and inclusive

Staff Network for B.A.M.E

staff, staff who identify as LGBT+,

health

conditions and carers and senior

women leaders network

Freedom to speak up guardians

Safe space champions

Early conflict resolution offerings

NHS Staff Discounts

discounts

Discounted Gym

Memberships


Why Kent?

It’s no secret that many jobs require you to be in the hustle and bustle of London but there comes a time

when this is less attractive. We hope by taking the space to reflect on a slower paced life during the

pandemic, it has encouraged you to trade in the concrete jungle for rolling farmland, engulfing

woodlands, charming coastal towns and delightful hidden pubs.

However, if you’re not quite ready to cut ties yet, Kent has excellent transport links to London, the rest of

the UK and beyond; even if you’re 100km away, the abundance of train lines will have you to the capital

in 40 minutes, and even to France in under 2 hours. The M20, running parallel with Maidstone Hospital,

connects Kent to the rest of the UK with ease.

Maidstone is one of the many towns in Kent, with the River Medway running through the heart and

home to some of the best shopping, food and drink establishments.

Of course, Canterbury hosts the beautiful Canterbury Cathedral and many of the countries’ best sporting

grounds.

And Tunbridge Wells is one of the oldest and most sophisticated boroughs within the county, home to

excellent theatres, eateries and its famous spa discovered in 1604.

We recognise relocating impacts the whole family, so it’s important to note that Kent is home to some of

the top schools in the country, boasting top tier private, state and grammar schools. If you’re looking to

give your children the best start in life and have a wide range of options, you’ll struggle to do better than

Kent. Notwithstanding higher education, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University

continue to place highly in the national rankings.

The combination of the connectivity, beautiful surroundings and outstanding schools makes Kent the

perfect place for a family home and to embark on a new challenge in your career.


Research

MTW NHS Trust have an exciting research programme with plans to grow and expand to capitalise on new and existing opportunities in

the Kent and Medway region. The research department is made up of more than 60 dedicated staff and recruits around 3000

patients a year to clinical studies across 24 different specialities. The trust benefits from being in close proximity to academic partners such as The University of Kent and the new Kent

and Medway Medical School (KMMS).

A joint research collaborative is in the early

phases of development and MTW are playing a prominent role in this endeavour. The aim is to link acute hospital trusts with academic partners,

community health trusts, mental health trusts and public health providers. Kent as a region also benefits from integrated datasets for health and social research covering the healthcare

records of more than 2 million people. In addition, as part of the local research network, MTW collaborate with Surrey, Sussex and Kent,

as well as working with a number of London Trusts, including Guys and St Thomas’s NHS

Foundation

Our research department have recently revised their research strategy for the next five years with

particular focus on:

• supporting our clinicians in developing

investigator led clinical research; • cancer clinical trials (as one of the leading

and top performing cancer providers in the

south-east); • working with the medical school to provide

research opportunities for students; and

• developing a tissue bank for the region.

We have a large, diverse portfolio of studies and currently have research teams in Breast, Lung,

Upper GI and Colorectal, Urology, Gynaecology, Haematology/Lymphoma, Melanoma and Radiotherapy. Our Radiotherapy research team is

the biggest dedicated team in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and are still actively recruiting, with support from our in-house expert medical physics

team.

We have studies open that are interventional and observational, as well as studies that look into genetic profiling. Within

radiotherapy, we are also undertaking SABAR trials. We have a large number of clinicians that support oncology research trials within various

specialities. We are also very excited that some of our clinicians have been supported by the Research and Development team to obtain

substantial grants to undertake their own research projects. These grants, most recently from Breast Cancer Now and the NIHR i4i programme for the SENTINUS and LiSENUS studies respectively

have brought in more than £300,000 of own

account funding.

We know that our ability to provide outstanding

care to our patients hinges on our being at the forefront of cutting-edge treatments. Our ambition is for research to be a routine component of the

care we provide to our patients. We look forward to you joining us at MTW, wholeheartedly supporting you in your research journey and welcoming you to our ever-growing research

community – exceptional people providing

outstanding care.


PERSONAL SPECIFICATION –

CONSULTANT CLINICAL ONCOLOGIST

Requirements Essential Desirable

EDUCATION

• Full GMC registration

• FRCR Entry on the Specialist Register as a clinical oncologist or eligibility for

entry within 6 months of the date of the advisory appointments committee

• Higher qualification in Medicine

• Research degree (MD/PhD)

• Clinical Experience in relevant tumour sites

• Clinical experience in Gynae brachytherapy

• Clinical experience in SABR

EXPERIENCE • Clinical Training and

experience equivalent to that

required for gaining UK CCT in specialty.

• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

• Experience in Clinical Audit and Research

• Experience in medical education

SKILLS

• Enthusiasm for developing tumour site specialisation and Cancer Services in Kent.

• Ability to organise and manage

• An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team

• Dedication to maintaining and developing the cancer care group in co-operation with other hospital

departments.

• Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, coaching and motivating.

PERSONAL • Ability to work in a team

• Good interpersonal skills

• Caring attitude to patients

• Commitment to continuing medical education

• An awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses


Maidstone Hospital Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

Kent

ME16 9QQ

06122 729000

Tunbridge Wells Hospital Tonbridge Road

Pembury

Tunbridge Wells

Kent

TN2 4QJ

01892 823535

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