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This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established multidisciplinary palliative care team providing hospital palliative care at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.
This new and exciting post has two distinct areas of responsibility working across two distinct but overlapping teams – the Beatson Hospital Specialist Palliative Care team and the Interventional Cancer Pain Service.
There is ample scope to develop special areas of expertise and interest in both teams.
The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (BWoSCC) opened in May 2007, completing a state of the art comprehensive cancer centre that has cost £110 million. It is Scotland’s largest cancer centre, and the second largest in the UK. The centre has undergone unprecedented investment and our clinical teams deliver oncology services to a catchment population of 2.9 million people across 4 Health Board areas. The centre is part of the CRUK virtual comprehensive cancer treatment and research centre which also includes the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research and soon to be built Translational Research Centre.
The Beatson is an internationally renowned academic centre, with Professors of Medical Oncology, Clinical Oncology, and Translational Research.
The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre Clinical research unit is the largest of its kind to be funded by Cancer Research UK. The unit offers support to all clinicians within the BWoSCC to initiate and conduct first-in man clinical trials. The unit has a large portfolio of Phase I-III studies across the range of cancer sub-specialties and has a particular interest in the development of new anti-cancer drugs, supported by designated staff and facilities for Phase I/early Phase II clinical trials. The unit also houses Scotland’s first ever co-ordinating centre for the National Cancer Research Institute.
Glasgow has excellent schools, public transport and recreational facilities.
For further details of the posts please contact: Dr Alison Mitchell or Dr Jane Edgecombe, Consultants in Palliative Medicine on 0141 301 7041.
Applicants must have full registration with the General Medical Council, a licence to practice and be eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR) or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of Interview. Non UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.