Job overview

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 over the past year.  The care group continues to develop its strategies to ensure this progress continues into the future.

The Haematology department provides a comprehensive clinical and laboratory service for patients across East Kent. Inpatients for haematology and haemophilia are centralised at Kent and Canterbury Hospital.  Nineteen subspecialised outpatient clinics are held per week and delivered on all four sites.

Main duties of the job

•   This post is a 10PA role and is a new post created to support the development of the service. Applicants who wish to participate in a job share will be welcomed.

       Provide outpatient care as appropriate – This post is a full time (10 PA) role and involves 3 outpatient clinics per week plus 1-in-5 Haemostasis on call for adults and paediatrics 

•    The clinics consist of 1 paediatric Haemophilia & Thrombosis clinic; 1 adult haemostasis and thrombosis clinic and 1 benign paediatric cytopenia clinic per week. 

•    This post is predominantly based at the Kent and Canterbury site, with 1 day per week based at the William Harvey Hospital at Ashford. This post also includes attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings

•    There are separate on call rotas for Haemostasis; and Haemato-oncology (which includes Ward-attending duties).  This post participates in the haemostasis on call rota only

•    We provide training for rotational Haematology trainees from the Kings/KSS training programme and the consultants provide support to a full resident doctor haematology (registrar) rota

•    Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care

•    Provide clinical interpretation of haematological laboratory tests and provide advice to clinical colleagues. This role also provides Haematologist support to the Haematology laboratories

Working for our organisation

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000. We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway.

We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work, there’s never been a better time to join us.