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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Consulting
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
88
Posted:
22.01.2025
Expiry Date:
08.03.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
To provide a comprehensive Haematology Service in West Norfolk and Wisbech for the Trust. This is a replacement Consultant Haematology Post and it is expected that the new consultant will carry the department into the future. The appointee will join the current Consultant Haematologists Dr Lisa Cooke (3 days), and Dr Martin Lewis (4 days), to provide a comprehensive laboratory and clinical haematology service. The new Consultant will work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn. The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop a chosen specialist interest within haematology by spending a day a week at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and thus make an individual contribution to haematology services at King’s Lynn.
Main duties of the job
The appointed consultant would be expected to contribute to the ongoing service improvement programme developing:
* Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
* Implementing evidence-based new ways of working when necessary
Working for our organisation
With over 4,000 staff (known as TeamQEH), the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn is one of the biggest employers in West Norfolk, supporting the health and wellbeing of the local community. QEH has 518 beds, 18 wards, a budget of circa £220m and provides a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to those who live in the three counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
TeamQEH is proud to be an inclusive employer, with many active staff networks. We have also been recognised as an exemplar employer by BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) and offer outstanding health and wellbeing initiatives to support our staff and to implement our learning from the pandemic.
We are exceptionally proud to have recently moved out of special measures and see this as a testament to the determination of our trust wide teams to put our patients first and recognise the hard work and dedication of all our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this opportunity.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
* MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
* Other professional qualification or higher degree e.g., in medical education, clinical research or management.
Experience
* Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.
* Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) at time of interview
* Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Internal Medicine or Haematology
* Meets the criteria set out in the Specialist generic capabilities framework
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities
* Free counselling service
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
* Free parking for all staff until March 2024
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to-day work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and are also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.
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