Roles and responsibilities

Seeking world-leading researchers

As part of an ambitious and ongoing plan for strategic growth in Cancer Research at the University of Sheffield, we are looking to appoint up to five world-leading clinical and translational academics into a range of roles including professorial. With our interrelated research themes — prevention to screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, palliation, and survival and quality of life — we can accommodate a wide range of interests while retaining relevance to the cancers that most affect our population.

We are keen to receive applications from pre-professional candidates on a steep upward trajectory who would benefit from the support, infrastructure and patient population we can offer in Sheffield.

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Research responsibilities

You will have the vision and ambition to:

• Lead a major research group, managing people and resources to deliver an ambitious research vision (as appropriate for the discipline).
• Develop and lead research activities/programmes of outstanding quality in your disciplinary area.
• Maintain a sustained track record of income generation to support your work.
• Contribute to the delivery of the university’s cancer research strategy – by working with basic, translational and/or clinician-scientists across the university to build successful programmes.
• Publish high-quality, innovative, distinctive and significant outputs which are considered to be world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
• Regularly contribute to other research-related activities such as conference papers and speaking at conferences.
• Lead the development of strategies, policies and procedures which have a positive and quantifiable impact on equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Provide outstanding supervision to research students.
• Participate actively in the development of the cancer research strategy in the university and the wider cancer research community across the university.
• Contribute to institution-wide, transinstitutional, national and international research collaborations in oncology research.
• Take steps to protect intellectual property with colleagues in the Commercialisation & IP team.
• Promote the highest professional standards so that the reputation of the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is enhanced.

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Leadership and management responsibilities

We aspire to help you become a leader in your field. We will help you develop your career as a leader and help you manage the multiple activities that benefit your group, the wider School and the University. Examples include:

• External partnership activities/collaborations.
• Developing institutional policies and practice.
• Leading activities contributing to a positive and inclusive community spirit across the University.
• Using position and influence in order to ensure that others engage positively with the University’s cancer research strategy.
• Leading, developing and motivating colleagues using mentoring and coaching skills.
• Proactively supporting equality, diversity and inclusion activities.

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Clinical responsibilities

Candidates with clinical expertise will receive an honorary appointment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

You will typically dedicate 50% of your time to academic responsibilities and 50% to clinical responsibilities. This will be open to adjustment in consultation with your NHS Clinical Director and the University.

Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for the provision of cancer services within your specialism. You will be part of your multidisciplinary team.

You will work according to the terms and conditions of the national consultant contract.

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Teaching and training responsibilities

These new posts are primarily research-focused.

However, you will have some student contact through tutoring, occasional lectures, supervising projects, PhDs and/or dissertations to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This may be in collaboration with non-clinicians within the university.

You will also expect to supervise more junior members of staff and medical students within your clinical time