Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe, with access to leading clinical expertise and medical technology. We care for people from all over the country as well as the 809,000 residents of Leeds itself. The Trust has a budget of £1.34 billion. Our 22,000 staff ensure that every year we see and treat over 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 110,000-day cases, 170,000 in-patients, 270,000 A&E visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all linked by the same vision, philosophy, and culture to be the best for specialist and integrated care. Our vision is based on The Leeds Way, which is a clear statement of who we are and what we believe, founded on values of working that were put forward by our own staff. Our values are to be: Patient-centred Fair Collaborative Accountable Empowered We believe that by being true to these values, we will consistently achieve and continuously improve our results in relation to our goals, which are to be: 1. The best for patient safety, quality, and experience 2. The best place to work 3. A centre of excellence for specialist services, education, research, and innovation 4. Hospitals that offer seamless, integrated care 5. Financially sustainable Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients. By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating, and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change. WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition. This appointment is for a Locum Consultant Haematologist with an interest in Haemostasis and Thrombosis. This is a 10 PA consultant post and will be one of four consultants in the Haemostasis and Thrombosis team, joining Dr Lishel Horn, Dr Julie Tarrant and Dr Angela Kanny. The post is a temporary replacement post to sustain the clinical Haemostasis and Thrombosis service in Leeds Teaching Hospitals, which has undergone considerable development and expansion in recent years. The postholder will contribute to the provision of 24/7 Haemophilia cover across the Northwest Yorkshire Haemophilia network and contribute to the continuing service development in the Leeds Comprehensive Care Haemophilia centre. The appointee will be based principally at St Jamess University Hospital with responsibilities as a member of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Clinical and Laboratory Haematology Consultant team providing an integrated pan-Leeds service. The duties of the post will be wholly in the Haemostasis and Thrombosis subspecialty service, including a 24/7 advisory network on call service with 5 other colleagues for heritable bleeding disorders alongside the haematology on call consultants in Leeds, Bradford, and York. There is no general Haematology on call commitment. The post-holder will be part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Haematology team, providing advisory and liaison Haematology services in their area of expertise. The Haemostasis and Thrombosis service is a substantial clinical and specialist laboratory practice serving the needs of the local and regional population within one of the UKs largest teaching trusts and providing tertiary services across Yorkshire. It is the hub of the Northwest Yorkshire Haemophilia network and a comprehensive care centre. It is staffed by a dedicated team of consultants, registrars, and specialty doctors along with nurse specialists, physiotherapists, pharmacists and laboratory and administrative support. The service is described in more detail below in the section of this document outlining the Haematology department structure. 2. OBJECTIVES OF THE POST The successful applicant will contribute to the care of patients with Haemophilia and other bleeding disorders. They will work in close collaboration with the current consultants for the adult service and an established team of clinical nurse specialists and physiotherapists caring for patients with heritable bleeding disorders. An SpR is attached to the haemostasis team on a rotational basis for periods of 4 months at a time. The postholder will also contribute to consultant led Thrombosis clinics and provide supervision and support to two VTE advanced clinical practitioners. A specialty doctor is attached to the team and provides specific medical support to the Anticoagulant and Thrombosis service and cross covers registrar duties. The post holder will provide consultant level cover for Haemophilia and Thrombosis in-patients and in-patient referrals on a week on attending basis (approx. 1:4), for daytime walk in attendances at the Haemophilia Centre and for urgent consultations from the hospital and primary care on cases with disorders of Haemostasis and Thrombosis. The post holder will be a member of the North and West Yorkshire Haemophilia MDT, (a regional MDT which is currently held 2 monthly) and of the LTHT VTE MDT which is held every 3 weeks. The post holder will provide clinical and when appropriate, operational advice to the Leeds Anticoagulant Service, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, supporting a team of medical, nursing, scientific administrative and pharmacy staff (see the service description below at the end of this job description). Clinics provided by the Haemostasis and Thrombosis team include a Haemophilia clinic every Tuesday morning, and two other Haemostasis and Thrombosis clinics per week. The post holder will provide a Haemophilia clinic and a general Haemostasis and Thrombosis clinic, held weekly which is a point of access for new referrals requiring diagnostic work up for Haemostatic or Thrombotic disorders. The third clinic will either be a further Haemostasis and Thrombosis clinic or, on rotation, will be a combined Haematology Obstetric clinic (for patients with bleeding or thrombotic disorders) held in the Antenatal clinic in partnership with Dr Etienne Ciantar and Dr Jonathan Nelson, Consultant Obstetricians. The combined Haematology Obstetric service is the hub of the maternal medicine network for North Yorkshire. There are more than 3,000 outpatient attendances at the above clinics and a further 250 visits to the Haemophilia Centre that require senior medical input. In addition, around 150 -200 patients per year require in-patient management, either for direct complications of their Haemostatic disorder or for joint management e.g. surgical procedures. On call is non-resident and currently consists of a 1:6 for the Northwest Yorkshire Haemophilia Network and 1 in 4.8 for local Thrombosis advice cover, mostly running concurrently. For Haemophilia, honorary contracts at the relevant trusts are in place. This includes Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Bradford Teaching Hospitals and York Hospitals.