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Job summary

Main area
Histopathology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent: 10 PAs
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
214-CSTO24-6364296
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/07/2024 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Histopathologist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

The successful candidate will join a current establishment of 6.25 WTE Consultants and 3.0 WTE Specialty Doctors.


The department is accredited for postgraduate training and currently there is an ST3 trainee rotating through the department as part of East Midlands (North) rotation. There is also an FY2 trainee as part of Trust rotation. The department has a successful record of CESR training.

The appointee must have full registration with the GMC or within six months of attaining a CCT in Histopathology at the time of the Appointments Committee. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.The Department is a teaching and training department and the appointee will be expected to deliver undergraduate teaching (tutorials) and to participate in training Speciality Trainees in Histopathology.


The Department is moving to using digital pathology for primary diagnostics, the appointee will be supported to transition to Whole Slide Image reporting and offered the opportunity to contribute to the future development of digital pathology diagnostics.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to:

Provide advice on the diagnosis, staging and prognosis of patients suffering from disease. Reporting and interpretation of specimen submitted to the department in line with RCPath guidelines.

Take joint responsibility with colleagues for quality assurance within the department including taking part in national external quality assurance programmes, where appropriate.


Participate in the annual appraisal and job planning process.


Work with relevant clinical teams in the provision of comprehensive Histopathology service to the users, including advice regarding appropriate specimen collection and investigations, interpretation of reports and the preparation of policies, procedures and guidelines. Answer phone calls to and from clinical colleagues, if required.


Be jointly responsible for the supervision, training and management of any junior staff in the department.


Be jointly responsible in the smooth and efficient running of the Histopathology department

This is a general histopathology post, and the appointee is expected to support service delivery by complementing existing team members.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We are working closely with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.

We put the patient at the centre of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

We are truly proud to be the HSJ Trust of the Year for 2020, and we are proud of our CQC ratings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • FRCPath or equivalent
  • Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • Research degree in Histopathology

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of job plan
  • Understanding of all aspects of specific focus of role

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to contribute to the teaching programmes for under-graduate and post-graduate medical, laboratory and nursing staff
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role

Management

Essential criteria
  • Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload

Research

Essential criteria
  • Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
Desirable criteria
  • Good academic and research publication record

Other

Essential criteria
  • To have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely and competently
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members, clinicians, GPs, and other agencies
  • Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
Desirable criteria
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
James Thomas
Job title
Acting Deputy Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
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