Specialty Doctor Haematology

at  Ashford St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are offering a 1 year fixed term Specialty Doctor position. The appointee will join four full-time consultants at Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working in conjunction with Royal Surrey County Hospital. This role includes covering clinical and laboratory haematology and blood transfusion. Laboratory Services: Laboratory services across the three Surrey sites operate on a shared LIMS platform with integrated management and access to Cellavision technology.
Clinical haematology falls within the Medicine Division (Divisional Director: Dr. Jonathan Robin, Consultant Acute Physician), while laboratory haematology and blood transfusion are part of the Diagnostics and Therapeutics Division. Each division is supported by a divisional manager, as well as designated finance and HR representatives. Trust and Pathology Network: The Trust gained Foundation status in late 2010 and was the first to do so under new standards.
The Surrey Pathology Services network was formalized on 1st April 2012, integrating Frimley Park Hospital, Royal Surrey County Hospital, and later Wexham Park Hospital and Heatherwood. In 2016, it expanded to become the Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) with the inclusion of The Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust pathology service. St Peters Hospital provides the network specialist coagulation service, with immunology, virology, and cytology laboratories also located on site. An integrated network-wide management structure is in place, ensuring detailed governance and shared budgetary mechanisms among partner organizations.
In July 2016, an SLA with the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) led to the SI HMDS service being delivered by RMH for the Alliance. Laboratory Facilities: All sites provide hot haematology, blood transfusion, and biochemistry laboratory services. Main histopathology and cytology laboratories are located at RSCH, while microbiology and the main haematology laboratory are at FPH, where CellaVision enables remote blood film review. General practice work from RSCHs catchment is analyzed at FPH, utilizing automated specimen handling.
The two sites share a single laboratory information system (Winpath Enterprise), and a molecular biology laboratory offers a broad and expanding range of tests. Clinical Haematology Services: Clinical haematology services are delivered through a new integrated service and a shared haematology oncology MDT with the Royal Surrey County Hospital, within the St Lukes Cancer Alliance framework. This post encompasses all aspects of haematology practice (both malignant and non-malignant). Support Structure: The busy day unit is supported by a junior doctor, a haematology clinical nurse specialist, and four haematology nurses (three band 6 and one band 5), managed by a band 7 Specialist Lead Nurse for the haematology day unit and infusion unit at Ashford.
The haematology nurses also support level 1 inpatient activity. Two anticoagulant clinical nurse specialists and an anticoagulant specialist BMS deliver the anticoagulant service with clinical support from the consultants. The hospital transfusion practitioner is based within the blood transfusion laboratory, working closely with biomedical scientists and the network team of HTPs. At Royal Surrey County Hospital Clinical Haematology is managed within the Surgery and Oncology Specialty Business Unit (SBU) which is based in the St Lukes Cancer Centre site at the RSCH and provides services including radiotherapy to residents of Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire, a catchment over 1.3 million.
Clinical Haematology falls under the Clinical directorate of Oncology and Haematology.The consultant haematologists are members of the Oncology and Surgery Specialty Business Unit with admitting rights to the 31 bedded oncology/haematology ward and the support of junior oncology medical staff (6 junior doctors, 2 covering Haematology (one GP trainee and one CMT) in addition to two haematology specialist registrars. There are currently 8 level 2 beds nominally designated for haematology inpatients but admission is according to clinical need and ring-fencing is currently not applied. Access to the general medical and oncology outpatient clinics, general and oncology day unit facilities is also provided. There is no private ward at the RSCH.
There is 24 hour junior doctor cover/presence on the haematology/oncology ward with direct admission under haematology care set by a series of defined criteria. There is no haematology SpR on call. Haematology Advise out of hours comes directly from the consultant. Only registrar grade or above can contact the haematologist out of hours.
For ward emergencies the medical registrar and ITU provide cross-cover

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