Consultant in Haemoglobinopathy and Transfusion Medicine

Job Reference – 000911
Salary - £88,364 to £119,113 per annum pro rata plus HACS where applicable
Hours – 10 PAs (40 hours a week)
Location - Barts Health NHS Trust and NHS Blood and Transplant
Contract Type – Permanent

This post for a full-time Consultant in Haemoglobinopathies and Transfusion Medicine. It is a joint appointment between NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and Barts Health NHS Trust. The post will be based at Barts Health NHS Trust and NHSBT Colindale Centre. There will be an average of 8 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the 2 being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities. The On-Call commitment will be on call for NHSBT on a 1:6 (B) basis.

You will take part in red cell attending duties and provide inpatient, day case and outpatient care for adult patients with haemoglobinopathies thalassaemia and rare inherited anaemias as part of a wider multidisciplinary team for the Trust. You will work within a team consisting of senior laboratory staff, transfusion practitioners, patient blood management practitioner, and quality assurance officer. The post holder will provide advice on the management of patients with complex transfusion needs with haemoglobinopathy and participate actively in clinical governance, including participation in national, regional and local audits, incident investigation and management and quality improvement initiatives in transfusion medicine. For Barts NHS Trust work, the post is based predominantly at the Royal London Hospital but may at times be required to provide services at other Bart’s health sites. The individual is expected to play an active role in the general workload of the department lead and participate in clinical research activities, including clinical trials and other studies in haemoglobinopathy, and have a significant role in teaching and training of junior medical staff and undergraduate teaching for medical students.

For NHSBT, you will provide expert advice on reference Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI) specifically and transfusion medicine generally for NHSBT providing advice as part of a national rota and support medical leadership for the NHSBT RCI reference laboratories in Barnsley. You will also participate in the medical consultant duty rota to cover diagnostic laboratories for NHSBT by day and in the consultant rota providing 24/7 advice on transfusion medicine. You would be expected to participate in clinical research in haemoglobinopathies, genetics and transfusion medicine and local, regional & national audit and quality improvement initiatives in transfusion medicine. You would also participate in teaching and training regionally and nationally of medical and non-medical staff and contribute to the teaching programmes for Haematology and Transfusion Medicine Specialty Registrars preparing for the part I and part II of the FRCPath examination, including visitors from overseas.

NHSBT was established as a Special Health Authority for England and Wales in October 2005 by the merger of UK Transplant (UKT) with the National Blood Authority (NBA) – made up of the National Blood Service (NBS) and the Bio Products Laboratory (BPL). The remit of NHSBT is to provide a reliable efficient supply of blood, organs and associated services to the NHS. BPL has subsequently left NHSBT to form an independent organisation.

For further information about the position please contact:

Dr Laura Green, Consultant Haematologist, Barts Hospital email laura.green@nhsbt.nhs.uk or Tel: 07720275360.

Dr Fiona Regan Transfusion Consultant, Clinical Director for Pathology, NHSBT fiona.regan@nhsbt.nhs.uk or Tel: 07711447235.

Professor Dave Roberts, Medical Director for Pathology, NHSBT telephone David.roberts@nhsbt.nhs.uk or Tel: 07711447670.

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Closing date for applications is 23:59 hrs on Sunday 19th February 2023.

Interviews to take place on Thursday 2 March 2023 by Teams.