Consultant in Haematology

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust invites applications for a Consultant Haematologist based at Maidstone Hospital with some clinic sessions potentially at Tunbridge Wells. This key role sits in the Cancer & Haematology Directorate serving the Kent and Medway Cancer Network.

You will provide high-standard clinical care, participate in service development and collaborate across departments to enhance patient outcomes, including on-call and rotation coverage where required.

Qualifications

• Essential clinical leadership and teaching responsibilities.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams across Cancer & Haematology Directorate.
• Registration with GMC in Haematology or within 6 months of CCT.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of care to patients under clinical responsibility.
• Participate in clinical and service development activities to improve patient care.
• Collaborate with medical, professional and managerial colleagues for high-quality care.
• Attend and contribute to on-call arrangements and annual leave coverage.

Skills

Leadership

Organisational ability

Teaching

Team collaboration

Education

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCP or FRCPath or equivalent

GMC Specialist registration in Haematology

Portfolio pathway candidate must be on specialist register

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells as a Consultant Haematologist. The appointee will be employed by the Trust and will be based at Maidstone Hospital with some potential scope for clinics at Tunbridge Wells. Clinical Haematology is within the Cancer & Haematology Directorate, forming an integral part of the Kent and Medway Cancer Network. All tumour sites across the Network have been peer-reviewed and are compliant with national standards.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for you personally or by members of your team and. in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering oncall or annual leave.

The role will include participation in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim to ensuring a high standard of patient care. Also working in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the speciality, to provide high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust's strategic direction.

About us

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed.

As part of your induction, you will be required to attend face-to-face training sessions and/or complete e-learning modules relevant to your role. If you have previously worked for another NHS organisation before joining Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we can transfer eligible mandatory training records where appropriate, helping to avoid unnecessary duplication of learning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCP or Equivalent / FRCPath or equivalent
• GMC Specialist registration in haematology or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview. Portfolio pathway candidates must be on the specialist register at the time of interview
• MRCP of evidence of equivalent qualification

Desirable

• Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
• Higher research degree e.g. PhD/MD

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of leadership
• Organisational ability
• Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations
• Commitment to teaching undergraduate and post graduate trainees and other members of the multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
• To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course

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