Our purpose is simple – Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
We’re a large organisation, providing acute services from the Alexandra Hospital (Redditch), Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and Worcestershire Royal Hospital (Worcester) to a population of over 575,000 people in Worcestershire, as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and further afield. We also manage a Surgery ward at Evesham Community Hospital.
Our workforce is nearly 6,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision – working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
It’s an exciting time to join the Trust. In partnership with staff, patients and partners, we are developing of our Clinical Services Strategy which will outline how our services will be organised effectively across our sites into the future. Our Clinical Services Strategy will build on the improvements already put in place in recent years, following the Future of Acute Hospital Services in Worcestershire review which has seen improved outcomes in a number of areas, including maternity and children’s services.
Our objectives are simple
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
If you can help us to achieve these; if your vision matches our vision; and you believe in Putting Patients First, we would love to hear from you!
In return, we commit to investing in our staff to ensure that we retain and develop the right people, with the right skills, who care about and take pride in, putting patients first.
WORCESTERSHIRE ACUTE HOSPITAL NHS TRUST
- WORCESTERSHIRE ONCOLOGY CENTRE
LOCUM CONSULTANT MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST – with an interest in Breast and GYNAECOLOGY – 10 PAS
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a locum Consultant Medical Oncologist to join the Oncology team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The post will provide and develop Oncology services for patients with breast cancer and gynaecological cancers and contribute to the Acute Oncology Service. The post will be mainly based at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, with an outpatient clinic on the Alexandra Hospital site in Redditch. The position is on a locum basis with a view to advertising as a substantive post.
The radiotherapy hub is at Worcester and is complimented by outpatient and chemotherapy clinics at the Alexandra Hospital and Kidderminster Treatment Centre. The service serves a population of ~600,000.
The successful applicant will join a team of oncologists who are driving quality improvements in the provision of cancer care to ensure we continue to deliver the best outcomes and patient experience to our patients.
This is a full time post and contribution to an on call rota will be expected in conjunction with the other oncologists.
Interested candidates should contact: Dr Lisa Capaldi or Mrs Karen McCredie, Directorate Manager on ******** .
Informal visits welcome.
Important information about your application
- Please be aware that job adverts may close before the published closing date, if we have a high volume of applications, so we recommend getting your application in as quickly as possible. ****
- You must fulfil all of the essential criteria in the person specification
- References from current and previous employers must cover at least three years
- Due to the large number of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
- All correspondence will be sent through NHS Jobs, so please check NHS jobs and your email account regularly
- If you have not been contacted within four weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted on this occasion
- By accepting a position within our Trust you agree that the Occupational Health Department can access your occupational health records from your current or previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. This is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and supports flexible working. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, career progression, and are part of the NHS pension scheme. All of our sites are completely smokefree.
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- Disclosure and Barring Service Check
- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the current Resident Labour Market Test which will be in place until the end of December 2020. UK Visas and Immigration requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
