Consultant Haematologist

Integrated Care System; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital trust in England is seeking a Consultant Haematologist to provide comprehensive care within its Haematology department, with responsibilities across multiple outpatient clinics. This full-time role includes supporting laboratory services and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to ongoing clinical governance and improvement initiatives.

Benefits

Up to 32 days' annual leave

Support for study and patient safety work

Removal expenses for substantive positions

Qualifications

• Candidates must display evidence of diagnosing and treating related disorders.
• Laboratory experience is essential for this role.
• English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent) required.

Responsibilities

• Provide outpatient care including several clinics per week.
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings and participate in on-call rota.
• Provide clinical interpretation of laboratory tests.

Skills

Diagnosing and treating haemato-oncology disorders

Laboratory experience

Education

Full and Specialist registration with the General Medical Council

Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)

MRCP or equivalent

FRCPath or equivalent

Job description

Go back East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Haematologist

The closing date is 27 July 2025

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please review the Supporting Documents section to access the full Job Description and Person Specification. If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details at the top the page.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

*Please note that the set Interview Date has been added as guidance and may be subject to change.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

• Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council
• 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 by date of interview
• MRCP or equivalent
• FRCPath or equivalent
• Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School

Skills and experience

• Evidence of diagnosing and treating haemato-oncology disorders
• Evidence of laboratory experience

Clinical governance

• Consistently safe
• Vigilant about safety
• Reassuringly professional
• Listen and clearly communicate

Other requirements

• Most roles require an on-call commitment and travel across sites. Candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to travel effectively between sites
• Upholds and models the Trust values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a yearper annum (pro rata where applicable)