12 Oct
Oxford University Hospitals
Headington
Job description
Job overview
This post is funding by Thames Valley Cancer Alliance and the post holder would liaise with them regarding the development of a breast pain pathway which is locally feasible in OUH to share ways of re-directing breast pain patients away from week wait clinics onto more appropriate diagnostic pathways.
The post holder would develop and then submit their breast pain pathway for assessment by the Association of Breast Surgery Clinical Practice & Standards Committee as outline on the ABS website under ASPIRE Breast Pain pathways’.
The ABS is very conscious of the stress to capacity caused by large volumes of symptomatic breast referrals to breast units across the UK and is looking to assess the strategies being used by units to address the significant proportion of these which are for patients with breast pain.
The post holder would work on this project in additional to clinical commitments in this busy breast surgery department.
An exact timetable, with dedicated time for the project, would be worked out in discussion with the Clinical Lead.
Main duties of the job
The Breast Unit in Oxford sees approximately , referrals per year with over newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer.
They are treated at the Cancer Centre at the Churchill Hospital, (which is also home to the NHS Breast Screening Programme), and at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
We have an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team with one stop clinics supported by breast radiologists and breast pathologists, medical and clinical oncologists, cancer genetics, plastic surgery and lymphoedema services.
The fellow will be working under the supervision of consultants ( are part-time and one is an Associate Specialist).
The unit provides a full range of Oncoplastic breast surgery service in collaboration with the plastic surgery team, who provide a free-flap reconstruction service.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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▶️ Senior Clinical Fellow in Breast Surgery
🖊️ Oxford University Hospitals
📍 Headington