Consultant Haematologist (Clinical & Laboratory)

Job description

This post, which is available with immediate effect, has a commitment to St. James’s Hospital as aConsultant in Haematology with a focus on adult haemostasis and thrombosis. The successful candidate willbe assigned to the National Coagulation Centre, St James’s Hospital.

This Consultant Haematologist position is required to maintain the current consultant team that deal withthe expanded workload at the NCC. The proposed appointment will support current service needs, and willinvolve sharing of existing clinical activity in relation to inherited and acquired bleeding and thromboticdisorders, as well as laboratory duties and hospital consultation services. The appointed Consultant wouldbe expected to take a lead role in the design and governance of services for thrombosis in St. James’sHospital. The appointed Consultant will also share the administrative workload relating to theimplementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Inquiry into the infection with HIV andhepatitis C of persons with Haemophilia and related disorders, including the implementation of the NCCLighthouse project.

Eligibility: Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained bythe Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of haematology (clinical and laboratory).

Company Description

The hospital's fundamental purpose is the delivery of health treatment, care and diagnose as well as health promotion and preventative services at catchment, regional, super-regional and national levels. Its service remits ranges in complexity from secondary to tertiary level.

St. James's hospital is also an academic teaching hospital. It is thus committed to the creation of an environment and the circumstances in which education and research in the health science and allied areas is possible and flourishes.

The Hospital is increasingly required to operate in an environment of vertical and literal collaboration in the ultimate interest of its patients. It advocates and pursues the promotion and participation of the hospital in services and academic health networks, both nationally and internationally, in this context. 

While preserving the primacy of patients in all respects, the hospital recognises and accepts its responsibilities to a broader set of stockholders that include government, the public and community generally, service key purchasers, staff and the many associated institutions in the health and education sectors.

In the discharge of these remits, the hospital aspires to meet the highest possible standards and levels of efficiency, effectiveness and quality in all its endeavours. It is also driven by criteria of excellence, continuous improvement and innovation. Its services are made available equitably on the basis of need. Finally, the hospital is fully accountable to patients and other stockholders with respect to performance over the entire range of its remit.