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Job summary

Main area
Cellular Pathology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
110-MD115-0724
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Town
Llantrisant
Salary
£91,722 - £119,079 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/08/2024 23:59
Interview date
05/09/2024

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Consultant Cellular Pathologist

Consultant

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the  living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until  the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Consultant Cellular Pathologist to join a mutually supportive and committed team of 8 pathologists.   

 

This post offers the exciting opportunity to practice pathology to a high standard with supportive colleagues in an area affording an enviable quality of life with the close links to the vibrant capital city of Cardiff and beautiful Welsh Coast and Countryside.

The post would suit either a first-time consultant looking to develop within an innovative team or an established consultant histopathologist wishing to further develop within a new environment and wanting to relocate to pastures new.

 

Services at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board have a bright future ahead of them and you are invited to be part of that, to help shape and design how the services look in the future.

English and/or Welsh speakers are both equally welcome to apply. 

Interview date:  5th September 2024

Main duties of the job

We work closely together with our clinical colleagues within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and provide a wide range of services, generating a broad and varied cellular pathology workload. This includes specimens from dermatology, gynaecology, head and neck, lung, breast and gastrointestinal, including bowel screening specimens. Together we will provide and develop a wide ranging cellular pathology service to primary, secondary and tertiary care colleagues.

 

There are opportunities to participate in the coronial autopsy for all Consultants. This is currently an optional element of the job plan.

 

The Health Board has cancer unit status for breast, colorectal, lung, upper GI, urology, gynaecology, head and neck and skin. The workload is shared according to RCPath workload points and the appointee will be encouraged to develop a specialist interest to complement that of the existing team.

 

 The Department has an excellent immunohistochemistry department which sees a constantly expanding IHC repertoire.  In addition the department has a lead Pathologist for Molecular pathology and works closely with The All Wales Genomics service. The department actively takes part in teaching and training of both medical and laboratory staff.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

 

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.

 

Please note, applicants should either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within six months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT / CESR (CP) at the time of interview.

 

If you are interested in this consultant post but are not due to obtain your CCT within the next 6 months we would still be very keen to hear from you. Please feel free to register your interest in this post by forwarding an expression of interest and your expected CCT date via email to [email protected]

Person specification

Qualifications and Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • FRCPath or evidence of equivalent qualification
  • Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) with a license to practice
  • 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

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Proven leadership skills and a responsible attitude
  • commitment to provision of a strong clinically-orientated service
  • Interest in teaching and training medical and non-medical staff
  • Good interpersonal skills and ability to work well in multi-disciplinary environment within and outside the department
  • Good organisational skills, ability to work to deadlines & prioritise workload
  • Able to work on own initiative & work well within a team

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad knowledge of Histopathology, Gynae & Non Gynae Cytopathology
  • Experience and participation in audit and/or quality improvement in last 18 months
  • Experience of teaching undergraduates/ postgraduates
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in the NHS or equivalent healthcare system

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHyderus o ran anabledd crflogwrAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

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.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joanne Roche
Job title
Consultant Cellular Pathologist & Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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