Job overview
The Haematology department provides a comprehensive clinical and laboratory service for patients across East Kent. The teams provide nineteen subspecialised outpatient clinics per week, delivered over three sites plus telephone consultations. Haematology and Haemophilia inpatient beds are centralised at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, with outpatient presence and chemotherapy units at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother, Margate) and William Harvey (Ashford) sites. The Kent Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre is based at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and is the Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre providing specialist Haemophilia Care for patients with bleeding disorders for the whole of Kent and parts of East Sussex. The specialist Haemophilia Laboratory is based within the Haemophilia Centre at the Kent and Canterbury hospital.
Haematology and Haemophilia is part of the Diagnostics, Buckland and Cancer Care group. 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. The care group continues to develop its strategies to ensure this progress continues.
Main duties of the job
This post is a full time (10 PA) role and is a replacement post following a retirement.
Provide outpatient care as appropriate – this post involves 3 outpatient clinics per week.
- Provide outpatient care as appropriate – this post involves 3 outpatient haemato-oncology clinics per week. This post is based at Kent and Canterbury and William Harvey hospitals. Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and partaking in 1 in 7 Haemato-Oncology/General oncall and ward attending rota. There are separate on call rotas for Haem-oncology/general and Haemostasis teams. There is a full middle grade on call rota in addition to whom we provide support.
- Provide clinical interpretation of haematological laboratory tests and provide advice to clinical colleagues. This role also provides Haematologist support to the Haematology laboratories
- Participation in clinical audit and other departmental clinical governance activities, and activities to support appraisal and revalidation
The post-holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate for a consultant haematologist not otherwise specified.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Clinical governance
Essential
- Consistently safe
- Vigilant about safety
- Reassuringly professional
- Listen and clearly communicate
Skills and experience
Essential
- Evidence of diagnosing and treating haemato-oncology disorders
- Evidence of laboratory experience
Qualifications and training
Essential
- Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council
- 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 required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT by date of interview
- MRCP or equivalent
- FRCPath or equivalent
- Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School
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This advert is for Consultant Haematologist with East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust in Canterbury, South East, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Haematology role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum (pro rata where applicable). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 19 Jul 2026.
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