Consultant Haematologist
4 weeks ago
The Plymouth Haematology service is the lead tertiary centre in the Southwest Peninsula with a catchment area of 1.8 million people. The consultant team are proud to lead a research active Haematology service in the Southwest Peninsula with an impressive national and international reputation in the research arena.
The Consultant Haematology team is currently comprised of 10 Consultant Haematologists (8.43WTE including 0.2WTE research university funded post). This is a new consultant post to support the mobilisation and roll out of CAR-T cell treatments into the service line.
The Consultant team is supported by 5.8WTE Registrar posts and 1WTE research registrars. There are in addition 4 junior doctors rotating on a 4-monthly basis through the inpatient ward, these are made of 1 F2 post, 3 IMT1/2 posts and a physician associate.
All consultants contribute towards the Monday morning ward round. The weekly attending consultant leads a further ward round on a Thursday afternoon with the attending consultant for the following week. The attending consultant of the week is responsible for all inpatients under the care of haematology and including SCT patients. Further advice regarding SCT patients can be sought from the three consultants with specific SCT expertise.
Clinics are disease-specific rather than named consultants, however specialist interests are covered
This is a new post (10 PAs). The post is created to support the clinical and laboratory Haematology services and develop the CAR-T/cellular therapy service at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.
The post holder will be expected to support the current Stem Cell Transplant programme when on-call.
**Fixed sessions are likely to include**:
CAR-T national meeting
Lymphoma clinic and BMT clinics
Myeloma clinic
Participation in general Haematology MDT, Thrombosis MDT, lymphoma/Myeloma MDT
Weekly Monday ward round
Weekly Friday departmental integrated diagnostics meeting
You will be expected to be on call for a week at a time on an approximate 1 in 7.4 basis. (1 consultant does not participate in the on-call rota). During an on-call week, you will be responsible for all inpatients, new patients, and day unit patients. However, the 3 transplant consultants will retain overall responsibility for the allogeneic transplant patients and advice can be always sought for the detailed management of specific problems when required. All patients are managed in a team, disease specific rather than consultant specific way.
The post holder will have a commitment to regular teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist registrar level.
The post holder will be expected to undertake adequate and appropriate continuous professional development (CPD) which will be fully supported by Trust funded study leave.
Type (DCC/SPA)
PA
Monday
AM
Ward round
Ward round (when on call)
Admin
DCC
DCC
DCC
0.50
0.10
0.40
PM
Transplant MDT
DCC
0.25
Tuesday
AM
Clinical admin/CAR-T
DCC
1.25
PM
New patient clinic (when on call)
National CAR-T meeting
DCC
SPA
0.18
1.0
Wednesday
AM
Lymphoma MDT
DCC
0.38
PM
Transplant clinic
DCC
1.0
Thursday
AM
Lymphoma clinic
DCC
1.0
PM
Ward round (when on call)
BMT QM meeting (monthly)
DCC
DCC
0.18
0.09
Friday
AM
General Haematology MDT
Morphology
Admin
DCC
DCC
DCC
0.25
0.38
0.25
PM
Late effect clinic
Education meeting
Generic SPA
DCC
SPA
SPA
0.5
0.375
0.75
Additional
Saturday - ward round (when on call)
Sunday - ward round (when on call)
Ward work when on call 2 hours/day x5 days a week
**Unpredictable out of hours on call**:
30 mins x 5 days M-F
2 hours s/s
Lab work (films) cover for colleagues leave
Lab work - haemostasis reporting with BMS
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
0.35
0.35
0.47
0.15
0.12
0.36
0.20
Total DCC
7.88
Total SPA
2.125
Total PAs
10.005
