Consultant in Haematology

Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Consultant Level to the Department

Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients of Ashford & St Peters and Royal Surrey County Hospital, including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients in accordance with Trust policies and practices.

Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload.

The Consultant team will provide comprehensive senior clinical cover to the Department.

Assessment of patients

Provide consultant cover in ward rounds, multi-disciplinary team meetings, clinics, supporting the day unit, anticoagulant service and laboratory responsibilities

Contribute to teaching/training and undertake audit and managerial responsibilities as appropriate to experience

Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate.

Engage fully with the care of patients outside the department and provide a prompt opinion on request from consultant colleagues in other specialties

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

The appointee will join the three other full time consultants and one part time consultant at Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust working in conjunction with Royal Surrey County Hospital. This will be working a 1:8 attending rota at the RSCH site, and a coordinated 1:8 out-of-hours on call rota covering clinical and laboratory haematology and blood transfusion. The laboratory services across the three Surrey sites are delivered within a common shared LIMS platform with integrated laboratory management and access to Cellavison technology.

Clinical haematology sits within the Medicine Division (Divisional Director: Dr Jonathan Robin, Consultant Acute Physician) and laboratory haematology/blood transfusion sits within the Diagnostics and Therapeutics Division. Each division is supported by a divisional manager as well as designated finance and HR representatives. The Trust gained Foundation status in late 2010, licensed from the 1st December, and was the first Trust to have done so under the new standards.

The formation of an integrated pathology network with our neighbouring Trusts, Frimley Park Hospital and the Royal Surrey County Hospital was formalised as the Surrey Pathology Services on 1st April 2012 with subsequent inclusion of Wexham Park Hospital and Heatherwood. In 2016 the Surrey Pathology Service expanded to become the Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS: Director of Pathology Nicola Newman) with the integration of The Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust pathology service. The locality laboratory at St Peters Hospital provides the network specialist coagulation service. The network immunology, virology and cytology laboratories are also located on the St Peters site. An integrated network-wide management structure for the laboratory pathology services is in place including detailed governance and line management arrangements with shared budgetary mechanisms between the partner organisations.

In July 2016 an SLA with the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) was agreed and signed leading to the SI HMDS service for the Alliance being delivered by the RMH.

All sites provide hot haematology, blood transfusion and biochemistry laboratory services for their respective hospitals. The main histopathology and cytology laboratories are located at RSCH. The microbiology laboratories and main haematology laboratory are located at FPH, where CellaVision is installed, allowing potential for remote blood film review. General practice work from RSCHs catchment is analysed at the FPH laboratory taking full advantage of its investment in automated specimen handling. The two sites share a single laboratory information system (Winpath Enterprise). A molecular biology laboratory provides a broad and expanding range of tests.

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