Consultant Haematologist

1 month ago Be among the first 25 applicants The Trust faced a number of challenges in the delivery of cancer access standards. The creation of a Cancer Services Care Group with a dedicated leadership team has enabled the Trust to focus on ensuring it not only achieves these standards, but develops a strategy to enable it to deliver excellent services to the populations it serves. This approach has already led to significant improvement in achievement of the cancer standards over the past year. The care group continues to develop its strategies to ensure this progress continues into the future. The Haematology department provides a comprehensive clinical and laboratory service for patients across East Kent. Inpatients for haematology and haemophilia are centralised at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Nineteen subspecialised outpatient clinics are held per week and delivered on all four sites. This post is a full time (10 PA) role. Provide outpatient care as appropriate – this post involves 3 outpatient clinics per week, providing General Haematology and Haemoglobinopathy (Laboratory and Clinical) and Haemostasis care. This post is predominantly based at the William Harvey hospital in Ashford with 1 day per week based at Canterbury. Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and partaking in 1 in 5 Haemostasis oncall rota. There are separate on call rotas for Haem-oncology/general and Haemostasis teams. There is a full middle grade on call rota in addition to whom we provide support Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care. Provide clinical interpretation of haematological laboratory tests and provide advice to clinical colleagues. This role also provides Haematologist support to the Haematology laboratories Conduct clinical practice in accordance with the highest ethical and clinical governance standards. Provide support to other clinical specialities Participation in clinical audit and other departmental clinical governance activities, and activities to support appraisal and revalidation Regularly attending multidisciplinary team and clinical governance meetings The post-holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate for a consultant haematologist not otherwise specified We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000. We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work, there’s never been a better time to join us. Through our Family First scheme we pledge to find roles for partners of consultants offered a substantive post – For more information please visit https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/careers/family-first-scheme/ We also offer removal expenses (substantive positions), up to 32 days’ annual leave and active support for study, quality improvement and patient safety work as part of our ‘We care’ improvement journey, and medical education and research. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Catherine Roughley Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: catherine.roughley@nhs.net Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Health Care Provider Industries Hospitals and Health Care Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust by 2x Get notified about new Hematologist jobs in Canterbury, England, United Kingdom . We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI. #J-18808-Ljbffr