Consultant Medical Oncologist - Melanoma + 2nd Tumour site (flexible)

Job overview

We provide Clinical and Medical Oncology inpatient and outpatient services, as well as radiotherapy and systemic anti-cancer therapy to all common tumour sites. The Beacon Centre and St Margaret's Hospice provide cancer care to the population of Somerset of approximately 560,000. They have received a number of accolades since opening in 2009 for the high-quality care delivered. Including CHKS ISO 9001 accreditation, Macmillan Quality Environment Mark score of 5 on all principles, Investors in People Gold and Customer Service Excellence A+++ award.

Somerset Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital merged in April 2023.

Yeovil District Hospital received a 15 million investment from the government to develop part of the Hospital and reduce waiting times. The first part the development plans will see Yeovil's main theatre receive a significant refurbishment, including increasing space in the recovery area, and an extension that will add a fifth theatre. This is coupled with the 5 million investment into an additional new Day Surgery Unit and modular Outpatient Unit.

A new Surgical Centre will also be opening at Musgrove Park Hospital in the Spring of 2025. The county also has a well-established programme of improvement work supporting the effective and efficient management of outpatient services (Somerset Transformation of Outpatient Care). This includes expanding opportunities for running outpatient clinics in a range of community hospitals across the county.

Main duties of the job

You'll be joining an ambitious team including a number of consultants who are active within national roles. We are a research- orientated department with a dedicated Clinical Trials team.

The role will incorporate the management of melanoma patients and one other tumour site. This second site can be discussed in pre-interview conversations with one of the Clinical Service Leads.

The appointee would join a progressive and enthusiastic melanoma team supported by an experienced and dedicated skin cancer nurse team; comprising 3 dermatology oncology CNS and 1 maxillofacial CNS and invaluable cancer support workers. There is a weekly skin specialist MDT which the Yeovil team also link into via teams. We work closely with the plastic surgery team in Exeter with provision of wide local excision and sentinel lymph node biopsy for all suitable patients. In addition to standard systemic therapy, we are a T-VEC centre, and accept referrals from other cancer centre's for this treatment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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