Consultant Haematologist

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors

The post-holder will spend one day a week working with the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre team at King’s College Hospital and will also participate in the delivery of general clinical services at both Trusts and laboratory haematology services in LGT, including urgent cancer referrals, and of all supportive activities appropriate to the role.

The post base is at the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT), currently at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich site (QEH) for 8.0 PAs, although it is anticipated that some duties will move to the University Hospital Lewisham site following consolidation of the service.

The remaining 2.0 PAs will be at the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre at King’s College Hospital.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

The trust is located in a pleasant part of South East London, with easy access to central London and the Kent countryside. There is a wide range of residential areas with excellent local amenities and schools.

The post holder will work with Consultant colleagues including lead clinician for haemoglobinopathy services, junior doctors, nurses, laboratory staff, clinical managers, and other members of the Division. Other consultant colleagues, senior management of the hospital, other hospital staff.
- Share with the other Consultant Haematologists in running the Haematology service, both clinical and laboratory.
- It is expected that the appointee will take on a special interest which complements the roles of the current Consultants, with an interest in Haemoglobinopathies, and lead in delivering Haemoglobinopathy services in the Trust in collaboration with the LGT Lead clinician.
- Take part in the on-call rota on a 1:5 basis at QEH/LGT. Annual and study leave is covered internally with no locum cover.
- Take part in managerial duties in the Department and Trust.
- Undergo annual appraisal and timely revalidation.
- Undertake CME/CPD as required by the Royal College of Pathologists and facilitated by funds from the Trust.
- Take part in Clinical Governance as a practicing clinician and to seek to maintain clinical and laboratory standards.