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Consultant Paediatric Haematologist (Focus: Non Malignant Haematology)
Posted 1 day 13 hours ago by NHS
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for two highly motivated, ambitious individuals to join our well integrated team. This is a replacement post, as well as a new post.
These posts are part of the service development to centralise and develop paediatric haematology, to consolidate expertise in the department and focus primarily on non-malignant haematology and leukaemia. The Great North Children's Hospital provides specialist paediatric haematology across a large area encompassing the North East and North West of England with most of the care being delivered centrally. Newcastle is the regional sickle cell and haemoglobinopathy centre with a designated Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team; it is a high prevalence area for haemoglobinopathy patients within the region and referrals are continuing to rise requiring significant development of the service. We are looking for motivated individuals to help drive forward this exciting phase within paediatric haematology in Newcastle. The candidate must be able to evidence relevant expertise and training. The post is open to those who hold FRCPath (or equivalent) and have relevant paediatric experience, as well as candidates who have trained as paediatricians and can demonstrate relevant training in haematology.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the jobThere is one replacement post and one new post to expand and develop the regional paediatric haematology service after centralisation of services into one department based in the Great North Children's Hospital. This follows expansion of patient numbers and will allow consolidation of consultant areas of interest feeding into the stem cell transplant and cellular therapies service.
Depending on the interests and expertise of the candidates this may include clinical management of patients with non-malignant conditions including haemoglobinopathies and malignant haematological disorders. Haemostasis and Thrombosis services are provided by the adult haematology team in Royal Victoria Infirmary and are not included in the paediatric haematology service.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
About usNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.
Job responsibilitiesClinical
- The main focus of the post is to support and develop the non-malignant service including laboratory, consultative as well as malignant haematology.
- Responsibility for patients with non-malignant haematological disorders including rare inherited anaemias. This includes the regional Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team service in conjunction with the Regional Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centres in Manchester, for Thalassaemia, and Sheffield, for Haemoglobinopathies.
- Clinical care of patients treated at the Primary Treatment Centre at GNCH. This would primarily involve the lymphoblastic leukaemia patients; however, there may be opportunities for other patient groups depending on expertise and experience. The management of lymphoma, myeloid leukaemias and relapsed leukaemias come under specific teams currently.
Laboratory and consultative haematology duties:
- Suitably qualified (FRCPath or equivalent) individuals would be expected to contribute to the paediatric haematology laboratory service. This includes support of biomedical scientist staff across the core haematology laboratory and reporting referred paediatric blood films and the reporting of bone marrow aspirates and CSF cytospin slides.
- Bone marrow trephines are reported by the regional SIHMDS (NEHODS). The post-holder will be encouraged to develop specific areas of responsibility within the laboratory.
- The post holder will be expected to contribute to the liaison haematology with secondary and tertiary services across the regional subspecialties and general paediatrics.
Bone Marrow Transplant:
- Depending on areas of interest, there may be an opportunity for pre and post transplant care of patients with haematological disorders treated within GNCH. These patients are managed by the Stem Cell Transplant team.
Advanced Cellular Therapies:
- The Great North Children's Hospital is one of the 3 UK centres commissioned for CAR-T therapies for children and young people (up to 18 years of age). As well as licensed products, we have early phase trial products available and be well positioned to develop CAR-T and other cellular therapies for other indications in the future.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.
Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
- Special skills and training in Paediatric Haematology
- A minimum of 12 months' experience in paediatric haematology (applicants without MRCPCH are recommended to have a minimum of 2 years paediatric haematology experience)
- Minimum of 12 months' experience in general paediatrics
- Higher Degree
- FRCPath or equivalent
- Wide experience of clinical and laboratory haematology
- Specific experience and interest in Paediatric Haematology
- Paediatric Haematology training in a recognised training centre
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of children with haematological illness referred to a tertiary centre
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion in children with haematological illness
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
- Evidence of leadership/project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical/technical/practical skills
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
- Research/critical review of literature
- Publications in the last five years
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
- Alignment with the Trust's values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- A commitment to personal/unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
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.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata
NHS
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