Are you ready to become a Consultant and looking for an outstanding place to start your career as a Consultant? Or are you a Consultant looking for experience in another city or country? Are you caring, compassionate and motivated? DO you want to work in a forward and fast thinking NHS Foundation Trust? We have an exciting opportunity for you. Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) is one Of the most established and cutting-edge Children's Hospitals in Europe. Our academic links also make us the largest centre for medical training in the Southwest, attracting the highest calibre clinical staff from across the UK. Staff throughout the Trust are involved in a research portfolio, comprising around 450 varied, pioneering projects resulting in approximately 600 published papers each year. We are so proud Of our Hospital and the strong commitment to evidenced based care and research.
Applications are invited for a full-time locum consultant post in paediatric Oncology attracting IOPA. This is to cover maternity leave. The post holder Will join a team Of thirteen consultants delivering paediatric oncology, haematology, bone marrow transplant (BMT) and aftercare services to the Southwest and beyond. The post is based at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) but the post holder Will liaise closely With colleagues in secondary care across the Southwest supporting a long established and highly devolved shared care network. You Will be required to perform outreach clinics to those centres.
The Bristol paediatric Haematology and Oncology Service is one Of the larger primary Treatment Centres in the UK; currently receiving around 140-150 new referrals per year for childhood malignancy. All essential services and most related specialties are available on site. These include Laboratory Services, Radiotherapy, paediatric Intensive Care, nephrology (including dialysis ), Endocrine and, critically, paediatric Neurosurgery. The role involves rotational attending weeks providing supervision Of in-patient and day-case care Of paediatric oncology patients Within Bristol and supporting care delivered across the shared care network. Additionally the postholder Will deliver regular clinics within our outstanding regional Aftercare service and rostered weekend and evening on-call duties supporting the care Of paediatric oncology, haematology and BMT patients
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit andretaina workforce whichrepresentsthe rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your applicationin order toensurewe'remeeting our pledge.