Specialty Doctor - Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant

Job overview

Applications are invited for a 1 year, 10 PA Specialty Doctor post in Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will join a team of consultants/speciality doctors caring for a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant diseases within the largest paediatric BMT/CAR-T cell therapy unit in the UK which performs over 100 cell procedures per annum.  The post involves senior medical supervision of both the inpatient and day-case BMT/CAR-T cell therapy work. When not on in-patient service the appointee will be expected to conduct high quality clinical/scientific BMT/CAR-T cell therapy research/teaching.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is a postgraduate teaching hospital, linked with the Institute of Child Health (ICH). The Trust has 318 beds and provides a comprehensive range of paediatric specialties for tertiary level care. The patient population consists of over 20,000 inpatients per annum and 84,000 outpatients.

Interested applicants are invited to contact Dr Robert Chiesa, speciality lead for BMT, by telephone on 020 7813 8434.

All applicants must have at least 2 years’ experience in paediatric BMT at Registrar level.

Main duties of the job

This is a one-year fixed term contract and is designed for a trained paediatrician with experience in paediatric BMT and CAR-T cell therapy.  The post provides senior medical supervision of both the inpatient and day-case BMT/CART. When not on in-patient service the appointee will be expected to conduct high quality clinical/scientific BMT/CART research/teaching.

Daytime responsibility for BMT/CART in-patients

This is the principal duty associated with this appointment. There are currently two consultant-led ward rounds each week. This post holder will lead a weekly ward round, and attend the multi-disciplinary discussions held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Additionally, the post holder will be available throughout the day for queries regarding inpatients from SHOs and SpR’s. The post holder will also rotate to the international private patient (IPP) BMT/CART/Immunology ward with daytime responsibility for BMT/CART and immunology in-patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachments.