Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant Haematologist UHL
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.听We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary鈥檚 Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 鈥 the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable听over听听staying comfortable; Listening听听over听always knowing best; and Succeeding together听over听achieving alone.听
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as 鈥済ood鈥 or 鈥渙utstanding鈥 in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
The post is for a consultant Haematologist on a permanent contract and will be based at University Hospital Lewisham (UHL).
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to help develop a high-quality service in this busy district general hospital, delivering comprehensive Haemato-Oncology, General Haematology & Laboratory Haematology services.
The trust is in the process of operationalising a number of exciting service transformations, such as an Emergency Department Bypass Unit to improve the outcomes and experiences of our patients with sickle cell. The department is also exploring opportunities for the expansion of our treatment capacity for malignant and non-malignant haematology and is in the process of developing a strategy to adopt innovative ways of working. The postholder will have the opportunity to contribute to the clinical leadership of these exciting developments.
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This role will be delivered as whole-time equivalent amounting to 10 programmed activities per week, subject to job plan review. Any applicant who is unable for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues
Main duties of the job
This is a full time Consultant Haematologist based at University Hospital Lewisham (UHL). The appointee will be based at UHL to provide a General Haematology service as well as Haem- Malignancy service.
The general Haematology workload includes providing full haematological support to all patients treated at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, GPs and the local Mental Health Trust (Oxleas). The population served is approximately 800,000. Traditionally the Haematologists have had good working links with the GPs and have provided a direct consultative service for interpretation of haematological tests and clinical problems. Anticoagulation services are partially moving into the community.
The post holder is expected to take an equal share in the delivery inpatient haematology services including Level 2B, laboratory haematology workload including blood film, bone marrow and Transfusion Management.
The post holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate for a Consultant Haematologist not otherwise specified.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will be delivered as whole-time equivalent amounting to 10 programmed activities, subject to job plan review.
The post holder will work with Consultant colleagues, junior doctors, nurses, laboratory staff, clinical managers in Haematology, and other members of the Division. Other consultant colleagues, senior management of the hospital, other hospital staff at LGT. Colleagues from the SEL Cancer Alliance and Kings and GSTT Network.
鈥 听 听Share with the other Consultant Haematologists in running the Haematology service, both clinical and laboratory.
鈥 听 听Consultant with an interest in Haemato-Oncology & General Haematology. There is an opportunity for the successful candidate to sub-specialise further, dependent on interests and experience
鈥 听 听Take part in on call rota on a 1:5 basis at UHL. Annual and study leave is covered internally with no locum cover.
鈥 听 听Take part in managerial duties in the Department and Trust.
鈥 听 听Undergo annual appraisal and timely revalidation.
鈥 听 听Undertake CME/CPD as required by the College, and facilitated by funds from the Trust.
鈥 听 听Take part in Clinical Governance as a practicing clinician and to seek to maintain clinical and laboratory standards.
鈥 听 听Take part in audit using the Trust audit facilities.
鈥 听 听Teaching and training of junior doctors, medical students, laboratory and other healthcare professionals.
鈥 听 听Provide continuing responsibility for patients in the post holder鈥檚 care and, in partnership with colleagues, work towards the optimal functioning of the Department.听
鈥 听 听Provide cross-cover at the other site, wherever required
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
- FRCPath or equivalent
- Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
- 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
- 鈥 Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
Desirable criteria
- Additional degrees, e.g., BSc, MSc, MD, PhD
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of all aspects of clinical and laboratory haematology with a broad base in Adult Haematology service delivery capabilities
Desirable criteria
- General Haematology service overview
- Specialist interest in Haemoglobinopathies
- 鈥 Experience of NHS structures & Governance
Clinical Audit
Essential criteria
- Understand the principles of audit
- Evidence of participation in audit projects
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of devising and conducting audit
- Evidence of managing Change in Service
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching junior doctors and other staff
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a course or certificate related to teaching / training
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of organisational ability
- Good personal management skills
Desirable criteria
- Will have attended an NHS Management Course appropriate to consultant duties
Research Experience
Essential criteria
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method, and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- GCP trained and certified
Other Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Evidence of leadership
- Organisational ability
- Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations
- Able to get on with other members of the multidisciplinary team
- Credibility and integrity
- A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
- Ability to establish good professional relationships with others
- Punctuality, reliability, enthusiasm
- Satisfactory Occupational Health clearance
- IT skills for day-to-day work
- To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course (or ensure that you have undertaken one within one year of appointment)
Desirable criteria
- Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rashid Sabia
- Job title
- Clinical Director Haematology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Kumar Thanigaikumar
Consultant Haematologist
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