Job summary
- Main area
- Pathology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-R2R-2147-G
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Cellular Pathologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity available to appoint to our final vacant Histopathology Consultant post, this is a substantive appointment, based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs). There is no on call commitment.
We could love you to consider joining our Pathology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. You will form part of the Trust’s pathology department and will be a part of the current team of 7 consultants providing a comprehensive Cellular Pathology service. The department provides a comprehensive range of services for our resident population of approximately 600,00 residing mainly in East and North Hertfordshire and extends to the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, West Hertfordshire and Essex.
Please note: That as part of the selection process you will be required to undertake a psychometric assessment which is mandatory There are no right or wrong answers and the aim of this is to give the panel members more information about the strengths and possible derailers of candidates preferred behaviors. You will also be required to take part in a stakeholder event, further details of which will be provided if you are shortlisted for interview.
Our Trust Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
- To participate in surgical cutup, surgical reporting, cytology reporting, thus ensuring the delivery of a high-quality histopathology, cytopathology service.
- To advise and be available for consultation on clinical matters both generally and on an individual patient basis with clinical colleagues in the hospital, general practitioners, and Trust staff.
- To participate in the training of the Clinical fellows.
- To be responsible for interpretation of results and advise on appropriate further investigations where necessary.
- To participate in the management of the service and work with laboratory staff and pathology management team to set clinical priorities and resolve operational problems.
- To lead laboratory staff on clinical matters. The Consultant Pathologist will instruct and work with laboratory staff in the day-to-day handling of cases.
- To participate in audit, accreditation, and quality assurance schemes.
- To work with colleagues on setting the strategic clinical direction and development of the pathology service and to participate in administrative duties as required.
- To advise and discuss with the pathology management team changes in methodologies or introduction of new equipment, consumables, or new tests.
- To collaborate with clinical colleagues in the development of new methods of treatment.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide & our over6,000 dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation & our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - we can consider your application fairly and to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, has to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Maintenance of high quality patient centred care
- Shared responsibility for the day to day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
- Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
- Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings when needed and directorate clinical governance activity
- Active participation in continuing medical education.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full and specialist registration (and a license to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- FRCPATH or qualification of an equivalent level
Desirable criteria
- College Fellowship
- Postgraduate degree (or equivalent)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience in
- Demonstrable experience in a Locum Consultant role
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
- Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Understands and can demonstrate the values of the NHS constitution
- Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Samita Agarwal
- Job title
- Head of Cellular Pathology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 288031
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