Locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist (Breast, Urology & Renal SABR)

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Trust as a locum Consultant Clinical Oncologist covering Breast, Urology and Renal SABR cancers. There will also be a commitment to Barnet AOS service.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest Trusts in London with a well-established national and international reputation for clinical excellence and world-class care. In January 2025, the Royal Free London and North Middlesex University Hospitals Trusts merged, and we now deliver care to over 2 million people a year through our four main health units. There are chemotherapy infusion suites to treat cancer patients at The Royal Free, Finchley Memorial, North Middlesex and Chase Farm health units whilst radiotherapy is delivered at the Royal Free and North Middlesex health units.

The Trust is one of the highest volume providers of breast and urology cancer and has a rapidly increasing renal SABR practice.

The post-holder will work alongside clinical and medical oncology colleagues at the Royal Free and Barnet health units.

The successful candidate should have experience of working within a multidisciplinary team; have a wide experience in Clinical Oncology but in particular in breast and renal SABR management.

Main duties of the job

The core responsibilities of the post holder will be as follows:

To develop and support the breast and urology cancer service at Barnet health unitTo develop and support the renal SABR service at Royal Free health unitTo attend weekly tumour specific urology, renal and breast MDTsTo support Barnet AOSTo take responsibility for the designated clinical workload including all relevant MDMs and out-patient clinics.To take part in radiotherapy clinical trials in breast and urology at Barnet health unitTo provide dedicated time to deliver SABR for extra cranial oligometastatic disease at RFL TrustTo participate in the radiotherapy (1 in 8) and acute oncology (1 in 18) on call rotaTo attend monthly consultant departmental meetingsTo provide postgraduate teaching for junior staffTo provide clinical supervision for specialist registrarsTo participate in undergraduate medical student teachingTo comply with all the clinical governance processes and procedures of the TrustTo lead and participate in medical audit as per Royal College of Radiologist guidelinesTo maintain Continuing Professional Development accreditation as per Royal College of Physicians guidelinesTo participate in the Trust appraisal programme and GMC revalidation processes

Person Specification

Education & Professional Qualifications

Essential

  • Possession of MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
  • Membership of the Royal College of Radiologists
  • Accreditation by the RCR or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT (or equivalent) at time of interview
  • Eligible for GMC registration and entry onto the GMC Specialist Register in the area of Clinical Oncology

Desirable

  • Post graduate medical degree eg MD / PhD

Experience

Essential

  • Experience and commitment to multi-disciplinary working
  • Wide experience in oncology
  • Experience of breast, urology Oncology
  • Experience in SABR
  • Clinical audit experience
  • Clinical Trials experience
  • Experience of acute oncology
  • Proven clinical ability in Clinical Oncology
  • Leadership skills and the ability to take forward service developments

Desirable

  • Proven ability and commitment to carry out high quality research in the field, leading to publication in peer-reviewed journals

Knowledge

Essential

  • Member of a medical defense union

Desirable

  • Knowledge and understanding of the principles of resource and budgetary management within the NHS

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, 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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 26 July 2026

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