One Trainee Specialty Registrar

The clinical haematology service in Southend is an effective team of 5.0 WTE haematologists. The team is supported by One Trainee Specialty Registrar (from HEE East of England) and five speciality doctors (three ST3 level and two IMT1 level). There are 3.4 WTE Haematology CNS's. The clinical service in Southend is predominantly malignant haematology, seeing a typical population of Lymphoma (100 new cases per annum), myeloma (26 cases per annum) as examples.

There is the expected general haematology workload given our local catchment population of 380,000. There is a busy anticoagulant service (managed by pharmacists and nurses);
Acute Leukaemia is managed in liaison with Barts Health NHS Trust and shared care is delivered when feasible. Your duties will be arranged with the Consultant to whom you are responsible, who has final medical responsibility for all patients under his/her care. Any clinical problems beyond your experience should be referred to a more senior member of your team. To provide in-patient and out-patient care of individuals treated for haematological disorders, to gain experience and expertise in the management of such patients, to gain experience in the laboratory aspects of haematology including transfusion, coagulation and general laboratory haematology and to gain experience in audit in lab and clinical practice.

Main duties of the job, The post holder will work as a member of the in-patient team, which consist of specialty doctor, junior doctor and the consultants covering the wards. The fellow would be in charge of the day-to-day in-patient care. The fellow will assess and manage patients attending the day care unit, seeking advice from more senior members of the medical staff as required.

The post holder will also be expected to see referrals from other teams on the wards. The post holder is in day-to-day charge of in-patient care. The post holders have opportunity to perform bone marrow biopsy following appropriate training. The post holder is expected to have seen every patient under their care at least once daily or more often if clinically appropriate He/she should write in the patient's notes every day.

All notes should be written and signed legibly. About us Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be.

As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

• MBBS or equivelent
• GMC Registration

• MRCP part 1 or equivelent

• Previous experience within Haematology in a hospital environment

• Experience of Haematology within the NHS

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Able to manage various IT systems and having appropriate IT skills

• Shows clear understadning of principles of clinical governance
• Interest in and knowledge of medical audit and understands principles of evidence based audit

• Evidence of Audit partiiaption

• 2 years experience working in NHS environement

• MBBS or equivelent
• GMC Registration

• MRCP part 1 or equivelent

• Previous experience within Haematology in a hospital environment

• Experience of Haematology within the NHS

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Able to manage various IT systems and having appropriate IT skills

• Shows clear understadning of principles of clinical governance
• Interest in and knowledge of medical audit and understands principles of evidence based audit

• Evidence of Audit partiiaption

• 2 years experience working in NHS environement