RECRUITMENT INFORMATION PACK LOCUM CONSULTANT IN CANCER GENETICS (2 YEARS FIXED TERM) CONTENTS PAGE Section A Introduction from Sir Leonard Fenwick CBE, 3 Chief Executive Section B Overview 4 Section C About the Trust 6 Section D About the Area 16 Section E Introduction to the Directorate 17 Section F Advertisement 18 Section G Job Description 20 Section H Person Specification 23 Section I Job Plan 26 Section J How to Apply 28 Section K Main Terms & Conditions of Service 32 Section L Staff Benefits 34 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST SECTION A Introduction from Sir Leonard Fenwick CBE, Chief Executive As one of the largest and highest performing NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, we are unrelenting in our endeavour for clinical excellence, continuously seeking to improve the services we provide for our patients and the communities we serve. The Trust consistently meets the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ‘Essential Standards of Quality and Safety’ which recently confirmed a rating following inspection of ‘Outstanding’. Our services are rated amongst the best in the country according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Inpatient Survey 2015; in the most recent NHS Friends and Family Test 98% of our in-patients would recommend our services, and 96% of our staff recommends the patient care provided. We are very proud of our initiatives and improvements in quality of care; while the challenges which remain are greater than ever we are confident that will continue to embrace the opportunities to be innovative and enhance the quality and safety for patients and staff. As a Consultant you will bring a professional approach to all clinical activity, putting patient care at the heart of all we do. The Trust expects a great deal of its consultants and offers huge scope for those with personal and professional ambition. I invite you to join our consultant body which is intent on remaining at the forefront of leadership and innovation in all that we do. Please take time to absorb the information from this recruitment pack. If you have any queries please contact Dr Paul Brennan (Clinical Director, telephone 0191 241 8758) or Dr Miranda Splitt (Consultant in Clinical Genetics, telephone 0191 241 8600). If you believe you share our passion and drive for excellence and have the experience and gravitas we seek, we look forward to receiving your application. Sir Leonard Fenwick CBE Chief Executive 3 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST SECTION B OVERVIEW The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) is one of the largest and most successful teaching hospitals in England providing academically led acute, specialist and community services locally to a large and diverse population across the North East and Cumbria as well as nationally and internationally. The Trust operates across a number of locations including acute sites (Freeman Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Campus for Ageing and Vitality and Centre for Life) and a number of community sites. Redevelopment of these sites over the last few years has seen the consolidation of core services onto two main hospital sites enabled by the Transforming Newcastle Hospitals programme. We provide one of the highest number of specialist services of any Trust in the UK and are recognised nationally and internationally as a centre for healthcare excellence. This is evidenced in the Cardiothoracic Centre, the only one in the UK to provide all complex cardiopulmonary surgery, including heart and lung transplants for both children and adults. Furthermore the Trust has the UK’s first Institute of Transplantation which is a one stop shop model dedicated to all forms of solid organ transplant surgery. We have a turnover of circa £1 billion per annum, contracting with thirteen CCGs, three local authorities and NHS England for its main business. The Trust also delivers a range of specialist services to other commissioners across the country via individual contract arrangements. One of the largest employers in the region, the Trust has around 14,000 staff across a number of professions and staff groups. The Trust works closely with local providers of education including Newcastle University and the University of Northumbria to offer high quality education and training to ensure the workforce of the future. The Trust has a strong culture of research and innovation with formal management relationships with Newcastle University and the University of Northumbria in Newcastle. The Trust is one of the top in the country for the quantity of research and recruitment to commercial and non-commercial portfolio studies. A core member of the North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network (NENC AHSN) and Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), we continue to attract health science, innovation and commercial opportunities to the North East. We are a Wave One, Genomic Medicine Centres as part of the 100,000 Genomes Programme, we achieve our strategic aim to become a centre for excellence for genomics. The partnership of the Northern Genetics Service, Newcastle University, Trust pathology service and NewGene (a unique partnership to develop, validate and deliver molecular diagnostics using the latest high throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies) will ensure that the outputs of the programme are disseminated through research and translation into clinical care. 4 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Our strong history of joint working has led to a number of strategic partnerships across health and social care with many of these relationships translating into integrated and multiagency pathways of care for patients. The integration agenda is an opportunity to accelerate system transformation and further develop and grow integrated pathways of care for patients. We are an active member of the Shelford Group, a network of specialist teaching hospitals which undertakes comparative work and addresses issues of common interest. This includes: Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London NHS Foundation Trust; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. 5 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST SECTION C ABOUT THE TRUST In-patient clinical services are based on two sites - the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. The Royal Victoria Infirmary site is the acute admitting site with the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre together with acute medical services, maternity services and the Great North Children’s Hospital. The Freeman site is of a more elective nature with surgical services, cardiothoracic services, transplantation, and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC). Royal Victoria Infirmary: New Victoria Wing, Royal Victoria Infirmary The Royal Victoria Infirmary’s city centre site is shared by the Medical and Dental Schools and is adjacent to the Newcastle University campus. Directorate Service Cancer Services and Haemophilia Centre Clinical Haematology Haemostasis and Thrombosis Cardiothoracic Services Cardiology Children’s Services A full range of secondary and tertiary paediatric medicine and surgery, including one of two national paediatric immunodeficiency units. Community Services From 1 April 2011 management of Community Health Services in Newcastle transferred to the Trust. Integrated Sexual Health District Nursing Health Visitors Family Nurse Partnership School Nursing 6 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Directorate Service Community Matron TB Tracing Chronic Disease Monitoring Community Response & Rehabilitation Team Interface Team Home Re-ablement Funded Nursing Care Consultant Led Continuing Care Beds Smoking Cessation Core Health Improvement Service Nurse Practitioners Walk-in Centres Dental Dental Hospital Maxillo-Facial Surgery Laboratory Medicine Biochemistry, Cellular Pathology Health Protection Agency Medicine and Older Accident and Emergency/Trauma Centre (Great North Trauma People’s Medicine and Emergency Centre) Acute Medicine Endocrinology, Gastroenterology Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Immunology Medical Admissions Unit Poisoning and Therapeutics Respiratory Medicine Falls and Syncope Stroke Medicine Older People’s Medicine Musculoskeletal Traumatic Orthopaedics Spinal Surgery Neurosciences Neurology Neuro-radiology Neurosurgery Neurophysiology Peri-Operative RVI Chronic Pain Critical Care Home Ventilation Theatres and Anaesthesia Plastics, Ophthalmology Burns and Dermatology Ophthalmology Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Dermatology Radiology Emergency including trauma MSK, Children, Breast, Upper GI, Lower GI, Cancer, Endocrine Surgery Breast Colorectal Endocrine 7 THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Directorate Service Upper GI Women’s Services Gynaecology, Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics, Neonatology, Sexual Health Services Freeman Hospital: Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital The Freeman Hospital is to the east of the City Centre, with buildings predominately dating from the 1980s. The Northern Centre for Cancer Care opened in 2009 and the new Institute of Transplantation opened at the end of 2011. Directorate Service Cancer Services and Medical Oncology Clinical Haematology