Consultant General/Laboratory Haematologist

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking a Consultant in Haematology to support their laboratory services. The role involves providing consultative haematology, training registrars, and ensuring best transfusion practices. Candidates must have relevant qualifications and experience in laboratory haematology.

Qualifications

• Experience in laboratory haematology across the laboratory-clinical interface.
• Ability to work independently and take accountability for own actions.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service in laboratory haematology and support routine blood film.
• Assist multi-disciplinary teams in the care of in-patients.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Accountability

Education

PhD/MD in laboratory haematology

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians

Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists

Tools

Flow Cytometry

Laboratory Diagnostics

Job description

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Consultant General/Laboratory Haematologist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Haematology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 321-MS-CON-6382558-S5-A

Site JRH Town Oxford Salary £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/06/2025 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel .

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

CONSULTANT IN HAEMATOLOGY

Applications are invited to apply for the above post that will be based primarily in laboratory haematology at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

An opportunity has arisen to appoint a 1.0 WTE NHS consultant to support and further develop the Oxford haematology diagnostic laboratory and to provide consultative haematology on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. This post forms part of a team of laboratory and transfusion consultants developing and providing a first class, modern, integrated laboratory haematology service and high-quality blood transfusion service.

The Laboratory Haematology Department is within the Laboratory Medicine Directorate of Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. The post-holder will contribute to the laboratory haematology service with a focus on supporting routine haematology, morphology, and liaison haematology services at the John Radcliffe Hospital, as duty consultant on day per week (Tuesday). They will work with a team of five consultant haematologists (totalling 1.2WTE) providing routine, flow and molecular laboratory support.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Service provision: Laboratory

As duty consultant in the haematology laboratory for one day per week, the post-holder will be responsible for the routine blood film and bone marrow morphology, and supervision of registrars undertaking morphology and responding to the GP email advice line and liaison across primary and secondary care. The post-holder will be expected to report and authorise blood films and bone marrow aspirates with other laboratory consultants

The post-holder will be expected to contribute to laboratory aspects of registrar training in laboratory haematology, and to provide routine laboratory support for training doctors on a rotational basis.

The post-holder will work with the transfusion consultants and wider team and liaise with clinical teams to ensure best transfusion practice across OUH.

Clinical Service provision: non-Laboratory

The postholder will assist the Multi-disciplinary teams in the care of in-patients at the John Radcliffe hospital.

Working for our organisation

OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

CONSULTANT IN HAEMATOLOGY

Applications are invited to apply for the above post that will be based primarily in laboratory haematology at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

An opportunity has arisen to appoint a 1 WTE NHS consultant to support and further develop the Oxford haematology diagnostic laboratory and to provide consultative haematology on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. This post forms part of a team of laboratory and transfusion consultants developing and providing a first class, modern, integrated laboratory haematology service and high-quality blood transfusion service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined attached . The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director or laboratory lead (if delegated) upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually. Should agreement not be possible the post-holder may ask for the job plan to be reviewed by the Divisional Director. The Trust expects consultants to spend typically 80% of their time on clinical work, and up to 15% on teaching of clinical students, training of junior doctors, continuing medical education and professional development, and up to 5% on administration or management, though the proportion may vary from time to time by agreement with the Trust.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians or evidence of equivalent qualification
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists or evidence of equivalent qualification
• Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or 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. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• PhD/MD with focus on laboratory haematology, immunophenotyping or molecular haematology, or other related discipline

Experience

• Experience in laboratory haematology across the laboratory- clinical interface. Experience with flow cytometry
• Can demonstrate ability to work independently and take accountability for own actions.
• Experience with laboratory diagnostics and integrated reports

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to work in a team, taking personal responsibility and delegating appropriately
• Basic understanding of healthcare funding streams and commissioning.
• Ability to work well with others, including lab staff, clinical colleagues, and researchers
• Good written communication skills with colleagues and patients
• Ability to teach and train colleagues within the lab environment.
• Understanding of clinical governance as applied to laboratory testing and delivery of clinical services
• Able to collaborate with research driven by others.
• Ability to engage and inform a wider audience, including non- scientists
• Direct experience of undertaking laboratory research.

Other Requirements

• Transport: Ability to drive desirable but not essential.

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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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.

Domestic / catering / porteringservices at theJohn Radcliffe Hospitalare provided byMitie.

Domestic / catering / portering / maintenance engineerservices at theChurchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centreare provided byG4S.

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