Consultant Haematologist - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.

We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services.

In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work.

We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors

The post holder will work with consultant colleagues, junior doctors, nurses, laboratory staff, clinical managers at Lewisham Haematology, and other members of the Division.

Other consultant colleagues, senior management of the hospital, other hospital staff at UHL.

Share with the other Consultant Haematologists in running the Haematology service, both clinical and laboratory.

Consultants, with an interest in Haemato-Oncology (Myeloma & Lymphoma) & General Haematology

Take part in on call rota on a 1:5 basis at UHL/LGT. Annual and study leave is covered internally with no locum cover.

Take part in managerial duties in the Department and Trust.

Undergo annual appraisal and timely revalidation.

Undertake CME/CPD as required by the College, and facilitated by funds from the Trust.

Take part in Clinical Governance as a practicing clinician and to seek to maintain clinical and laboratory standards.

Take part in audit using the Trust audit facilities.

Teaching and training of junior doctors, medical students, laboratory and other healthcare professionals.

Provide continuing responsibility for patients in the post holder's care and, in partnership with colleagues, work towards the optimal functioning of the Department.

The post holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate for a Consultant Haematologist not otherwise specified.

Our people are our greatest asset.

When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients.

Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream

The appointee, together with consultant colleagues, is expected:

To participate equally in the provision of clinical and laboratory Haematology services for the Trust.
Contribute to delivering Cross Site Thrombosis & Anticoagulation Services & Governance as required.
To provide comprehensive Consultant ward attendee cover in rotation and participate on a 1 in 4/5 on-call for all aspects of Haematology with prospective cover for Consultant colleagues leaves, including Out-patient Clinic covers.

4.

To provide clinical leadership by:

contributing to speciality developments (Myeloma & Lymphoma)

- contributing to overall cross-directorate improvements in the service

To actively participate in Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Meetings (Myeloma & Lymphoma), Cancer Network meetings and local MDM & PTL meetings.
To advise and be available for consultation on clinical matters, both generally and on an individual patient basis, with clinical colleagues in the hospital, general practitioners and Trust staff
To be responsible for interpretation of results and advise on appropriate further investigations where necessary and provide Laboratory cover.
To participate in the management of the service and work with laboratory staff and General Manager to set clinical priorities and resolve operational problems.
To participate in Departmental/Divisional Committee meetings complementary to current Consultants and also Trust Committee meetings as required
To guide laboratory staff on clinical aspects of the service; to instruct and work with laboratory staff in the day-to-day handling of cases
To provide teaching to technical and medical staff in the Trust and to medical students
To undertake Clinical Supervisor role for junior medical staff and Educational Supervis