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LocumConsultant Haematology Acute Myeloid Leukaemia/Myeloid disorders

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Posting date: 23 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £99,532 - £131,964 pa
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 22 June 2024
Location: Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Company: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6261593/361-R2R-2252

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A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.


East and North Hertfordshire has a great opportunity available foraLocum Consultant inHaematologyCould this be YOU? You’ve started to read the advertsoplease continue….!


This is ajoint post between East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (ENHT) and University College London Hospital. NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PA) and an on-call commitment.


We have an excellent opportunity for the post above within the Haematology department at ENHT. The appointee will join four Consultants to plan, develop and provide Haematology services for ENHT and will spend one day / week at UCLH.


This post will be basedfour days per week (8 PA) at ENHT and one day per week (2 PA) at UCLH. The new Consultant Haematologist will have an office and secretarial support at the Lister Hospital. Candidates seeking a part time appointment are welcome.


The appointee will join three consultant colleaguesat the Lister Hospital- Dr JudithHanslip, Dr Muhammad Hasan, and DrXenofonPapanikolaou - in a progressive department.


The appointee will join 8 consultantleukaemiacolleagues at UCLH- DrPanosKottaridis, Dr KateStringaris, Prof Marc Mansour, Dr Beth Payne, Dr Kavita Raj, Dr RobSellar, Dr RichardBurkeand Dr JennyO’Nionsat UCLH. The appointee will seetheirnew and follow up patients with Acute MyeloidLeukaemia, Acute Lymphoblasticleukaemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, AplasticAnaemiaand other Bone Marrow Failure syndromes.




• To engage with consultant and senior technical staff in the development of an effective patient and user focused Haematology service in line with local and regional strategy
• To undertake 4 outpatient clinics each week (3 at ENHT and 1 at UCLH)
• To participate in the management of patients with hematological malignancies and clinical/laboratory Hematology including performing bone marrow biopsies
• To provide care and support of haematology patients at the Lister hospital in conjunction with other members of the haematology team
• To lead and develop the service for patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
• To provide an advisory service for haematology problems arising in non-haematology in-patients
• To participate inauthorisationof haematology laboratory results including examination and reporting of blood films and bone marrows
• To provide an advisory service to GPs and other users of the laboratory.
• To participate in departmental meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings, and clinical governance activities
• To participate in the relevant Eastern Regional Network haematology meetings
• To undertake regular audit and participate in the appraisalprocess
• To undertake teaching and training of junior doctors, laboratory staff and other staff groups as appropriate
• To participate in the haematology on call serviceat ENHT, one week in five


At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.




This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024

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