Consultant Haematologist

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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.

Provide outpatient care as appropriate – this post involves 3 outpatient haemato-oncology clinics per week. This post is based at Kent and Canterbury and William Harvey hospitals. Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and partaking in 1 in 7 Haemato-Oncology/General oncall and ward attending rota. There are separate on call rotas for Haem-oncology/general and Haemostasis teams. There is a full middle grade on call rota in addition to whom we provide support.

– 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

  • 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

Essential

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

Clinical governance

Essential

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 9 August 2026

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