At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to provide a comprehensive histopathology service and develop specialist interests.
- Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a leader in healthcare innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and support for research activities.
- Other info: Enjoy a collaborative culture with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while advancing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Must have GMC registration and experience in Histopathology.
The predicted salary is between 113565 - 150569 £ per year.
We have a vacancy arise for a Consultant post in Cellular Pathology. This will be based at Royal Preston Hospital and is a full-time, permanent post. The working week will be Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm with no expectation of providing on-call for this post.
The successful applicant will join our team of consultants and will be required to provide a comprehensive histopathology service. You would not be required to report neuropathology cases. You will also be required to develop specialist interests to complement the existing specialist Cancer services.
Main duties of the job:
- Co-operate with other members of the Pathology Directorate to ensure effective administrative arrangements are made in the laboratory.
- Recruitment and appointment of junior medical staff, BMSs and secretarial staff having dealings with the histopathology department.
- Arrangement of rosters of staff, allocation of duties to them and their instruction in necessary organisational matters.
- Co-ordination with staff in other professional disciplines and health care workers outside the hospital.
- Attendance at Board meetings and other committees when pathology issues are being discussed and participation in resource management.
- Continuing management responsibility by agreement with other consultants in the Cellular Pathology Department.
About us:
We are in collaboration discussion with the other 3 trusts in Lancashire and Cumbria including Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust. A central laboratory Hub has been proposed. Modern Education Centres are based at both Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital sites and offer excellent library and study facilities, including PC/Internet support for staff and students as well as high-tech simulation facilities.
All new Consultants are actively encouraged to be research active and supported in every way to carry out research in this trust. All newly appointed substantive consultants are enrolled on the award-winning Consultant Leadership Programme and as part of that, mentorship is available. All consultants have annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and are supported with the revalidation process.
Person Specification:
- Qualifications:
- Full and specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview).
- MBChB or equivalent or evidence of equivalent qualifications.
- FRCPath or evidence of equivalent qualification.
- If an applicant is UK trained, they 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/CESR.
- Experience & Skills:
- Wide range of experience in Histopathology and Non-Gynae Cytology.
- Interest in other specialist areas including Dermatopathology, Oral/Head and Neck pathology.
- Qualified to perform autopsies.
- Management:
- Evidence of Clinical Leadership.
- Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development.
- Research and Development:
- Evidence of interest in personal development e.g. through research and/or publications.
- Evidence of developing new diagnostic services.
- Personal:
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral.
- Good organisation skills.
- Works well within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Resident within 30 minutes travel time to Preston.
- Health:
- Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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