Job overview

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. 

Main duties of the job

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

Provide outpatient care as appropriate – this post involves 3 outpatient clinics per week plus Haemostasis on call. 

These clinics consist of 1 Haemophilia & Thrombosis clinic; 1 Immune Cytopenias (ITP; AIHA) clinic; and a Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) clinic. In addition, this post also provides a Haemoglobinopathy clinic once per month, as well as support to the laboratory.

This post is predominantly based at the Kent and Canterbury site, with 1 day per week based at the William Harvey Hospital at Ashford. This post also includes attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and partaking in 1 in 5 Haemostasis on call rota. There are separate on call rotas for Haemostasis and Haem-oncology/General Haematology (which includes Ward-attending duties). These rotas are supported by a full resident doctor grade on call rota. We provide training for rotational Haematology trainees from the Kings/KSS training programme.

- Provide clinical interpretation of haematological laboratory tests and provide advice to clinical colleagues. This role also provides Haematologist support to the Haematology laboratories

- 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.

Working for our organisation

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.