Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant in General Haematology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
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These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We’re inviting applications for Substantive Consultant post specialising in General Haematology (we encourage applicants to develop an area of their own interest).
This post attracts a ‘Golden Hello’ payment for new applicants taking a substantive post. Details are below:
- £12,000 golden hello payment for new recruits to be paid in 12 equal monthly instalments.
- Successful candidates will also be eligible for a relocation allowance of £12,000 (if required).
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established and vibrant department in the expansion and development of clinical and diagnostic Haematology services within the North West London sector.
Based primarily at Northwick Park Hospital (NPH), Haematology services are delivered at all three Trust sites. Successful candidates will be part of a team of 16 Consultant Haematologist colleagues in delivering clinical, laboratory, diagnostic, administrative, research and teaching responsibilities.
The department has a wide variety of clinics including thrombosis, general clinics and haemoglobinopathy. If the post holder does wish to consider a mixed malignant / non-malignant post, a malignant clinics could also be considered within the job plan.
The Department is supported by 7 Specialist Trainees, 3 Senior Clinical Fellows, 3 SHO, 1 FYI and 10 Clinical Nurse Specialists, 3 Physician’s Associates and is split into 2 clinical teams, Haemato-Oncology and General Haematology.
Main duties of the job
The post is a new position, full-time 10 PA, in the Haematology Department of London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. The post-holder will be an integral part of the Haematology service provided to the Trust and the appointee will provide care for inpatient and outpatient haematology patients.
If you’re successful there will be excellent opportunities to further develop clinical services, cultivate research ideas and to enhance teaching programs (at both post-graduate and undergraduate levels, as a major Centre for training students and trainees from Imperial College London).
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There are weekly myeloid, lymphoma, CLL and myeloma clinics within the department in addition to new referrals, general haematology, haemoglobinopathy and thrombosis clinics. The combination of clinics for the individual post-holder will be subject to their experience and interests and the needs of the department. Full-time consultants at this trust will generally undertake 3 clinics per week.
There are weekly regional and local MDTs which will be part of job planned activity. The regional MDT consists of consultants from Hammersmith Hospital, Hillingdon Hospital, West Middlesex Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Acute inpatient admissions are managed at NPH. For malignant haematology, Northwick Park has a stand-alone MDT and a weekly meeting with Hammersmith Hospital to discuss complex cases and transplant referrals. Haemoglobinopathy service is based at CMH, but the remaining clinics are at Northwick Park Hospital.
Within the department, there is good opportunity to significantly contribute to service development, particularly in the Thrombosis, Laboratory, ITP and Haemoglobinopathy services again dependent on experience and interest.
On-call attending occurs on a 1 in 6 basis.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • MRCP FRCPath or equivalent Full and Specialist registration with a licence to practice, with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview. Applicants that are UK trained; they 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; they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
Desirable criteria
- • MD, PhD or equivalent
Registration
Essential criteria
- • On GMC registered Medical Practitioner GMC specialist registration or within 6 months of CCT
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • IT Skills and computer literacy • Broad based training in Haematology and its subspecialties • Broad based general professional training in general medicine
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Abdul Shlebak
- Job title
- Clinical Director of Haematology ICHT and LNWUHT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033126806
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