Job summary
- Main area
- Haematology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Consultant
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 290-CONB136
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £113,565 to £150,569 per annum WTE
- Closing
- 08/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Haematology Consultant
Consultant
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The formal AAC interview will be held on 9th November 2026
The Haematology Department provides comprehensive outpatient, ambulatory and specialist lymphoma services from a facility located on the ground floor of the Catherine Lewis Centre. The outpatient unit includes seven consulting rooms, dedicated areas for phlebotomy, bone marrow biopsies, counselling and high-risk procedures. Patients are welcomed by specialist reception staff, while modern diagnostic technology enables rapid investigation and treatment. Full blood counts are performed within the clinic using an automated analyser linked to the main diagnostic laboratory. A vacuum transport system ensures transfer of samples and results between the outpatient department and laboratory services. Approximately 75 patients are seen each day.
The outpatient area is directly connected to the Day Care and Ambulatory Care Unit. Facilities include beds for apheresis procedures, acute patient care, sedated bone marrow biopsies and chemotherapy treatment, together with reclining chairs for blood product transfusions and systemic anti-cancer therapies. The unit treats up to 30 patients daily and operates 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
The lymphoma service is delivered by 3.8 whole-time equivalent consultants and 2.5 clinical nurse specialists. The team provides local and regional care including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation, CAR-T therapy, and specialist services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.
· To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
· To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities.
· To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
· To work with colleagues to provide medical leadership of clinical and laboratory aspects of transfusion practice at ICHNT, and to work with clinical teams to develop practices for the safe and effective use of blood and the use of transfusion alternatives.
See service overview and job plan included in Job Description.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent GMC registered
- Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or within six months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- MRCP AND FRCPath or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (MD or PhD)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist training in clinical haematology
- Experience in the management of lymphoma
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Experience in CART
Desirable criteria
- Experience in autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant
Leadership/ Management skills
Essential criteria
- Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
- Experience/Understanding of people management
- Knowledge of NHS finance structures and knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leaderships roles that with evidence of effecting change
Language
Essential criteria
- Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of clinical governance and audit
- Evidence of participation in clinical governance pathways / audit
Teaching & Training
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff
Academic/Research
Essential criteria
- Experience in delivery of clinical trials
- Experience in translational research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Andrew Innes
- Job title
- Consulant Haematologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
1st Floor Education Centre
Charing Cross Hospital
W6 8RF
- Telephone
- 07789 171 622
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