Consultant Histopathologist

The successful candidate will participate in the

provision of a general histopathology and diagnostic cytopathology service. The

department operates a lead pathologist model for cancer MDT meetings without

any degree of subspecialisation; however, personal interests can be

accommodated. It is anticipated the full-time job plan will contain 10

programmed activities worked flexibly by mutual agreement. These will include

8.0 PAs for direct clinical care and 2.0 SPAs for supporting professional

activities. Laboratory duties are carried out on a rota basis by agreement with

consultant colleagues. They include the provision of a comprehensive diagnostic

histopathology service for The Trust. You will be supported by strong and

experienced reporting teams. The department is involved in undergraduate and

postgraduate teaching and is proactive in developing and adopting solutions to

maintain high quality sustainable reporting including an expanding scientist

reporting strategy, automated laboratory processes and imminent adoption of

digital image reporting. The successful candidate

should have an interest in Head and neck, skin, urology, gynae/colp and lung

reporting. These specialities are those Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS

trust is most in need of currently. Most other specialties can be considered.

There is the opportunity to participate in Mohs surgery and coronial post

mortems.

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews.

A formal job plan will be agreed between the post-holder and their Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, three months after the start date of the post. The job plan for the first three months will be based on the provisional timetable shown below.

The Job Plan is subject to annual review and will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant's duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year, covering all aspects of professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide an agreed schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support if any required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.

Provisional Assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan:

For a full time contract

8 PA's on average per week (includes clinical activity, clinically related activity, predictable & unpredictable emergency work)

Cross-site travel and clinical administration time is included in each session of DCC

2 SPAs per week to support your personal CPD and revalidation related activities.

Additional PA allocations are provided for leadership roles, educational supervision (0.25 PA per trainee), appraiser role (0.25 PA for trained appraisers) or other pre-agreed additional activities.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a

DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check

(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting

Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Higher Degree.

Personal Attributes

Desirable: - Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels.

Research Experience

Essential: - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.; - An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative.

Desirable: - Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years.; - Evidence of having undertaken original research.

Experience

Management and Administrative Experience

Teaching Experience

Desirable: - Ability to supervise postgraduate research.