Clinical Fellow - Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary & Oesophago-Gastric

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 3 million people within the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network, providing surgery, radiotherapy and complex chemotherapy services.
Applications are welcomed for a 12 month HPB & OG Clinical Fellow, post commencing January 2025 in Clinical Oncology, based at The Christie NHS FT, Manchester, UK Europe’s largest single site cancer hospital.
This post is for 40 hours per week as a Clinical Fellow within the HPB and OG disease group under the specialty of Clinical Oncology for a fixed term period of 12 months. The post holder will be employed by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and will be based at The Christie. The successful applicant would be expected to work alongside consultants and trainees in out-patient clinics, supervising Precision Radiotherapy planning/delivery and performing on-treatment reviews and follow-up assessments.
The post holder will be involved in all aspects of the management of patients with HBP and OG. These include (but are not limited to) the screening of referrals, active participation in MDT, assessment of patients, consent, review of patients on pre-treatment, treatment, planning of SABR, review and approval of SABR plans, precision radiotherapy development and post treatment and ePROMS. All of this will be done under the clinical supervision of the designated HPB & OG team consultant.
You will be expected to teach junior medical staff, medical students and nurses on occasion.
You will be expected to take part in audit and research.
There is no on call responsibility with this post.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

The medical establishment provides currently consists of 59 Consultants who run the clinical service and research practice. There is also a team of 23 SpRs plus Academic Clinical Fellows.
The appointee will be based at The Christie and will provide senior input to all aspects of the management of patients with HBP, OG and oligometastatic disease. These include (but are not limited to) the screening of referrals, active participation in MDT, assessment of patients, consent, review of patients on pre-treatment, treatment, planning of SABR, review and approval of SABR plans, technical radiotherapy development and post treatment and ePROMS. All of this will be done under the clinical supervision of the designated HPB/OG team consultant.
They will be expected to teach junior medical staff, medical students and nurses on occasion.
They will be expected to take part in audit and research.
There is no on call responsibility with this post.
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Continuing Professional Development
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Role Planning
The timetable below is indicative and will be confirmed on commencement in post.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
AM
Clinic
TBS review clinic
Admin /
Liver SABR MDT
Clinic/
Pelvic MDT
Renal SABR MDT ( alt weeks)
Radiotherapy planning
PM
Admin /
Bone