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Job summary

Main area
Haematology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4a (MT04)
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Participate in Full shift rota)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
190-STH-26-248
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
RHH
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£67,325 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/11/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

LAS ST3 Haematology

NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4a (MT04)

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The post will be based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Clinical Haematology.

All the Haematology inpatient and outpatient facilities for adults (over 16 years of age) in Sheffield are based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (RHH), with a population served by the laboratory in Sheffield of around 600,000 and North Trent of close to 2 million. 

The inpatient facilities comprise of 3 inpatient wards, including 29 side rooms, 11 of which are HEPA filtered for all levels of Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Leukaemic induction therapy. Nearby are extensive dedicated day-case facilities, an Apheresis Unit (managed by the NHSBT) and the Centre for Haemophilia and Thrombosis. 

Chemotherapy of all intensities is administered to out-patients on the Day Ward, as are the majority of blood transfusions, venesections, and early follow-up of BMT patients is conducted.  Ambulatory care (based either at home or from a dedicated patient flat) is offered to clinically eligible patients undergoing myeloma and lymphoma autografts, lymphoma salvage chemotherapy and AML consolidation chemotherapy.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a team of up to 7 specialist haematology trainees covering haematology inpatients on wards O1, O2, P3 and P4 and the haematology day unit. On the Day Unit the postholder’s role will include assessment of patients with haematological disorders attending unwell, pre-chemo therapy checks, bone marrow lists, hickman line removal.  Duties may also include counselling /medical cover of stem cell donors.

The postholder will assess patients with bleeding and thrombotic disorders presenting at the haemophilia centre as appropriate. Training for all of these roles will be provided in house and the appointee will undergo local induction. 

The postholder will participate in the Haematology resident registrar rota.

The postholder will also be expected to attend clinics (supervised by a consultant).

Working for our organisation

PROUD VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS

These are the values that all staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are expected to demonstrate in all that they do.

Patients First – Ensure that the people we serve are at the heart of what we do

Respectful – Be kind, respectful, fair and value diversity

Ownership – Celebrate our successes, learn continuously and ensure we improve

Unity – Work in partnership with others

Deliver – Be efficient, effective and accountable for our actions

The Trust have developed a PROUD Behaviours framework which details specific behaviours we expect to see and do not expect to see, aligned to each of the five PROUD Values.

For further details of our services and organisational structure, including our Board of Directors, and our future plans please visit www.sth.nhs.uk/about-us

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for further details and main responsibilities of this post.

General Directorate Information The Sheffield Comprehensive Care Haemophilia Centre (CCC) is based on ward P4, providing multidisciplinary care to patients with inherited and acquired bleeding disorders. Sheffield CCC is a World Federation of Haemophilia International Training Centre, and is registered with the European Haemophilia Network (led by Professor Makris). Joint Haematology/Obstetric clinics are delivered in the antenatal clinic at the Jessop Wing, and the team also care for patients with acquired haemostatic and thrombosis disorders (acquired haemophilia, thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura, immune thrombocytopenia). The majority of patients with Venous Thromboembolim (VTE) are managed in an ambulatory fashion by specialist nurses who hold daily clinics (Monday-Friday) within the anticoagulation clinic on B floor RHH, supported by Haematology medical staff through the thrombosis MDT. For the Northern General Hospital (NGH), the clinical services are provided during the day by an Associate Specialist, and the Specialist Registrars

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered or eligible to be registered with the GMC with a licence to practise
  • Basic Medical Degree
  • Full MRCP
  • ALS certificate

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completion of Internal Medicine Training and experience in acute medicine
  • Active interest in haematology as a subspecialty
  • At least 6 months experience of working in the NHS (excluding clinical attachment)

Teaching and Training

Essential criteria
  • Experience of teaching medical students and resident doctors

Continuous Professional Development

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of participation in CME/CPD in the last 12 months
Desirable criteria
  • Maintenance of a CPD diary or portfolio

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates behaviour consistent with PROUD values
  • The applicant must demonstrate skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking the English language that enables effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues as set out in the GMC good medical practice (2013)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Nick Morley
Job title
Consultant Haematologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2711726

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Medical HR Department
8 Beech Hill Rd
Sheffield
S10 2SB
Telephone
01142265548
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