NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is Full Time
The Royal Hospital for Children (RHC), Glasgow, is the largest paediatric teaching hospital in Scotland. The clinical Haematology and Oncology service provides care for children, predominantly from the West of Scotland, with leukaemia, solid tumours, bleeding disorders, haemoglobinopathy and a range of non-malignant haematological conditions, and houses the National Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Unit which provides care to the whole of Scotland and at present, Northern and the Republic of Ireland. The service is expanding to include Immune Effector Cell and Gene Therapy.
Applications are invited for a Consultant in Paediatric Haematology. We are looking for a motivated individual to join the team in providing care, primarily to patients with leukaemia and undergoing stem cell transplant. The successful applicant will also be involved in on-going development in Immune Effector Cell and Gene Therapy. Duties include in-patient, day care, clinic and laboratory responsibilities
The job is offered on a 10 session basis with 1/8 ward, 1/5 laboratory and 1/5 transplant on-call.
Applicants should be appropriately experienced and qualified in the paediatric haematology, fully registered with the GMC and have a licence to practice. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR) or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of Interview. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, we would love to hear from you.
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Anna Maria Ewins, HSCT Programme director, [email protected], Shahzya Chaudhury, Consultant Haematologist, [email protected]
Interview Date: 17/07/2026
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates
This post may close early to the volume of response. Please submit your application form as soon as possible.
Due to the volume of applications that we receive, we will not be able to provide shortlisting feedback.
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