Consultant in Haematology

  • NHS
  • Full Time
  • Cottingham
  • 105504.00 - 139882.00 a year
NHS

Job Description

Job summary

Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact the team and discuss their personal areas of interest and expertise.

Participation in audit / appraisal and CPD is mandatory under clinical governance, RCPath and GMC guidance. Time is allowed within core SPAs to take part in audit and there is a dedicated audit lead for the department. 10 days of study leave are funded at £1,000 for CPD and training per year.

Duties other than those clinical duties specified will be in accordance with the job plan agreed between the appointee, the clinical lead and the chief executive. The job plan allows for Administration, Teaching and Medical Audit.

The candidate may be required to work on any of the Trust's sites and across the seven day period where necessary. Secretarial support, appropriate office accommodation and IT facilities will be provided.

Main duties of the job

A standard full time Job Plan will contain 10 programmed activities (PAs) comprising 8 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and 2 for supporting activities (SPAs). 1.5 SPAs are classed as 'core' and cover time for CPD, audit, appraisal and revalidation. Additional SPA time can be allocated for training, teaching, research, clinical management and educational supervisor (ES) activity. There are opportunities to participate in undergraduate teaching within the cancer module of the HYMS medical school curriculum. It is envisaged that this post would include the educational supervision of at least one trainee per year who could be from any level of training from FY1 to speciality registrar. It is expected that the appointee will have completed ES training or complete this within a short time of taking up the post.

About us

HUTH is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites, are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLaG.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

  • Full Registration with the GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months) 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 requirTd to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCTk

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • MRCP(UK) or equivalent qualification
  • Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists or equivalent FRCPath

Desirable

  • Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
  • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

  • NHS experience

Management and Administration Experience

Essential

  • Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

Desirable

  • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
  • Evidence of participation in audit
  • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients

Desirable

  • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
  • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

Desirable

  • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Castle Hill Hospital

Castle Road

Hull

HU16 5JQ

Employer's website

https://www.hey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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