An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a substantive consultant colleague to work alongside 6 existing consultants within the Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre (NGOC), Gateshead.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is a leading centre for Gynaecological Oncology, both nationally and internationally. The NGOC is one of the largest volume gynaecological cancer surgery services in the UK, serving a population of over 3.2 million within the North East and North Cumbria ICB.

We are looking for a committed, sub-specialty trained individual and we would especially welcome applications from candidates with a record of accomplishment academia and innovation, experience of supervising post-graduate research degrees or those with experience of setting up surgical clinical trials. You will have all round gynae-oncology surgical skills with the opportunity to consolidate these in a supportive environment whilst exploring your own specialist interests aligned to the needs of the service and existing consultant skill sets.

This is a 10 PA substantive appointment, and applications are also encouraged by those who may wish to work flexibly.

The successful applicant will form part of the Consultant team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and will be expected to work effectively with the existing team of 6 whole-time equivalent consultants to support the delivery of a region-wide tertiary gynaecological oncology service.

You will support the delivery of all aspects of gynaecological cancer care through collaborative working with surgical and non-surgical specialties, specialist nursing colleagues, resident doctors and allied health professionals, observing the organisational ICORE values.

Further details are included in the attached job description.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

The successful candidate should expect to lead 1 x 2-session (all-day) job planned operating list per week, as part of a rotational timetable that will include a broad spectrum of gynaecological cancer surgery. You will undertake a dedicated new cancer outpatient clinic with sufficient throughput to support your surgical workload. In addition to its tertiary service delivery, the department also provides a colposcopy service and a regional pre-invasive vulval disease service.

You will be required to contribute to the clinical workload of one of these services through the delivery of a dedicated weekly clinic. Further direct clinical care commitments will include attendance at one of the weekly regional virtual gynaecology cancer MDT meetings hosted at the Queen Elizabeth hospital or the James Cook University Hospital (Middlesbrough), with whom a collaborative regional arrangement is being developed. You will take part in a 1:7 ‘hot week’ on-call arrangement, with prospective cover for planned leave.

For further details, please see the attached job description document.