Locum Consultant Haematologist

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Locum Consultant Haematologist to join the Haematology Service at Luton & Dunstable Hospital for a 12-month fixed-term appointment (Maternity Cover) providing maternity cover for a substantive consultant. The post offers 10 Programmed Activities, comprising outpatient clinics, inpatient reviews, laboratory oversight, MDT participation, and clinical governance duties. The role includes responsibility for delivering approximately 15 new patient slots and 35 follow-up clinic slots per week, supporting safe service delivery during a period of sustained demand and workforce pressure.

The postholder will work closely with a team of five substantive consultants, specialty doctors, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and a part-time specialist pharmacist.

This temporary post is essential to maintaining patient safety, reducing waiting list backlogs, supporting cancer pathway performance, and ensuring continuity of care across the Trust's haematology service. The service is currently reviewing pathways, expanding nurse-led activity, introducing PIFU models, integrating cross-site outpatient capacity, and redesigning the on-call rota as part of service-wide transformation. The locum postholder will have opportunities to be part of these developments while ensuring high-quality day-to-day clinical care., The postholder will provide senior clinical care across malignant and non-malignant haematology, delivering approximately 15 new and 35 follow-up clinic slots per week to support essential capacity during maternity leave. Duties include assessing new referrals, reviewing high-risk patients, managing complex haematology conditions, and contributing to backlog recovery. The role includes inpatient reviews, support for the Day Unit and SACT pathways, and providing specialist advice to ward teams. The consultant will participate in the on-call rota, offering urgent clinical guidance, transfusion support and laboratory liaison. They will take part in MDT meetings, contribute to cancer pathways and ensure timely diagnostic and treatment decisions. The postholder will support service improvement initiatives, including remote review pilots, expansion of nurse-led clinics, and PIFU implementation. Responsibilities also include teaching junior staff, contributing to governance, undertaking audit, and
supporting safe, high-quality care across the service, including cross-site working where required.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.