SE London and SE England Haemoglobinopathy Clinical Fellow

Job overview

The post holders will collaborate with the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre (HCC) team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital, as well as with specialist haemoglobinopathy teams at Lewisham and Croydon University Hospitals and other local centres across the SELSE HCC regional network.

Due to changes in tertiary service organization for haemoglobinopathy and rare congenital anaemias, regional HCCs have been established by NHS England to support specialist teams in delivering and coordinating care for affected children and adults. HCCs are responsible for monitoring care standards, service development, and education.

SELSE HCC, formed by King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trusts, manages the UK’s largest sickle cell disease cohort and hosts the National Haemoglobinopathy Panel overseeing all HCCs nationally. It is part of King’s Health Partners (KHP), linking leading NHS trusts and King’s College London for research and clinical excellence.

This post targets senior specialist trainees aiming to develop NHS service, network management, teaching, and writing skills, while gaining experience managing haemoglobinopathy and rare anaemia patients throughout their lives.

Main duties of the job

Post holders will work with the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre (HCC) team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital, collaborating with specialist haemoglobinopathy teams at Lewisham and Croydon University Hospitals, as well as other local centres within the SELSE HCC regional network.

Regional HCCs were established by NHS England to support specialist haemoglobinopathy teams in delivering and coordinating care for children and adults with haemoglobinopathy and rare congenital anaemias. They oversee care standards, service development, and education.

The SELSE HCC, formed by King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trusts, manages the UK’s largest sickle cell disease cohort and hosts the National Haemoglobinopathy Panel, which coordinates all HCCs nationally.

SELSE HCC is part of King’s Health Partners, a collaboration between King’s College London and leading NHS Trusts in London, including Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and South London and the Maudsley, with Haematology as one of its key Clinical Academic Partnerships.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Participate and integrate SELSE HCC activities, taking direction from the clinical leads, their clinical supervisors and other colleagues as appropriate.
• Coordinate multiple aspects of work to local and network audits, as per agreed and established timelines with the network audit lead and local haemoglobinopathy service leads.
• Support the network lead in preparation of the annual report.
• Participate in local outpatient clinics to release consultants for outreach clinical duties and other HCC network related work.
• Together with network management team, liaise with Local Haemoglobinopathy Teams to ensure completion of network audits and implementation of network guidelines.
• Work collaboratively with network management team and colleagues across SELSE HCC and colleagues in partner institutions, in accordance with HCC’s requirements.
• Participate in clinical governance activity to ensure network guidelines are kept updated by working with the network guideline writing groups, both adult and paediatric.
• Ensure network guidelines are implemented locally and across network SHT and LHTs.
• Ensure guidelines on network website are kept up to date. Ensure network and local audits are completed.
• Maintain flexibility in the working week to participate in outpatient clinics as discussed with local supervisor based on clinical need and outreach clinic burden.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
• To participate in local and network wide teaching and training.
• Attend the SELSE HCC business and strategy meetings, and be an active participant. Support management team including the Chair and deputy in preparation for these meetings.
• Attend SELSE monthly MDT meeting

Please note that post may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.