Consultant Haematologist Canterbury

The Haematology department provides a comprehensive clinical and laboratory service for patients across East Kent. The teams provide nineteen subspecialised outpatient clinics per week, delivered over three sites plus telephone consultations. Haematology and Haemophilia inpatient beds are centralised at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, with outpatient presence and chemotherapy units at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (Margate) and William Harvey (Ashford) sites. The Kent Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre is based at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and is the Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre providing specialist Haemophilia Care for patients with bleeding disorders for the whole of Kent and parts of East Sussex. The specialist Haemophilia Laboratory is based within the Haemophilia Centre at the Kent and Canterbury hospital.

Haematology and Haemophilia is part of the Diagnostics, Buckland and Cancer Care group. 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. The care group continues to develop its strategies to ensure this progress continues.

This post is a full time (10 PA) role and is a replacement post following a retirement. Responsibilities include:

• Provide outpatient care as appropriate - this post involves 3 outpatient clinics per week.
• Provide outpatient care as appropriate - this post involves 3 outpatient haemato-oncology clinics per week.
• Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and partaking in 1 in 7 Haemato-Oncology/General on-call and ward attending rota.
• Provide clinical interpretation of haematological laboratory tests and provide advice to clinical colleagues.
• Participation in clinical audit and other departmental clinical governance activities, and activities to support appraisal and revalidation.
• 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.

Please review the Supporting Documents section to access the full Job Description and Person Specification. If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details at the top of the page.

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Qualifications and training:

• Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council.
• Applicants that are UK trained must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
• Applicants that are non-UK trained will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT by date of interview.
• MRCP or equivalent.
• FRCPath or equivalent.
• Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School.

Skills and experience:

• Evidence of diagnosing and treating haemato-oncology disorders.
• Evidence of laboratory experience.
• Clinical governance.
• Consistently safe.
• Vigilant about safety.
• Reassuringly professional.
• Listen and clearly communicate.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly named CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.