Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Path Links invites applications for a full time substantive Consultant Cellular Pathologist based at Lincoln County Hospital.
Path Links is a single managed NHS clinical pathology network operating across Lincolnshire. It was formed in 2001 from the amalgamation of NHS pathology services in Boston, Grantham, Grimsby, Lincoln and Scunthorpe. The Cellular Pathology Department is a well-established centralised service and has a team of sixteen consultants. The laboratory is well equipped to provide the diagnostic tests required for reporting including Digital Microscopy to provide greater diagnostic versatility.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to be appointed as Honorary Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School (HYMS). This honorary appointment is in recognition of contribution to teaching and research and holders of honorary titles may request access to HYMS and University premises and facilities, systems, and library services.
Job Description is approved by the Royal College.
AAC date: To be confirmed
Main duties of the job
The directorate provides diagnostic services for the specialities of Breast, Dermatology, Urology, Gynae, Gastrointestinal and Head and Neck. We are keen to appoint a colleague with broader range of interests with the ability to cross cover areas including Gastrointestinal, Urology, Head & Neck and Dermatopathology. There is a daily multi-headed microscope session to review difficult/interesting cases. Workload would be tailored to experience. Multidisciplinary team meetings are supported on five hospital sites, the majority are attended via videoconference links. The new appointee may wish to choose a mentor from our supportive team of colleagues, particularly if this is their first consultant post. Autopsy services are conducted at Lincoln. Participation in the autopsy rota (mainly Coronial, on a time shift basis) is welcomed but not essential.
Job responsibilities
All Consultants will be expected to contribute to the following:
* Shared workload of histology and cytology as appropriate for their specialty interests
* Specimen reporting and authorisation with clinical interpretation of reports
* Provision of advice regarding specimen type / collection and investigations
* Day to day supervision of diagnostic methods and examination of specimens
* Occasional requirement to work or attend meetings at another hospital site
* Provision of cover for planned leave of colleagues
* Supervision, training and management of doctors in training in the department
* Involvement in policy and SOP preparation
* Responsibility for quality assurance performance within the department, including taking part in all relevant National External Quality Assurance (NEQAS) programmes
* Responsibility for achieving and maintaining full accreditation via UKAS
* Business planning, including the assessment and introduction of new methods, and forward planning for staff and equipment requirements.
Detailed job-plans and subspecialist interests will be discussed and agreed between the existing consultants and the successful candidate on appointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Language
* FRCPath or equivalent
* Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) 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.
* Applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; or have the following scores in the academic international English Language Testing System (IELTS) - Overall 7.5, Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7, Writing 7 OR have achieved at least grade B in the medicine version of the Occupational English Test, in each area, speaking, listening, reading & writing
* Registered with the CPD programme of the RCPath
Experience
* Wide experience in Diagnostic Histopathology and Cytopathology.
* Experience of designing and implementing audit, commitment to service improvement
* Commitment to teaching at all levels
* Reporting of breast biopsy and resection specimens. A special interest in a sub-speciality which will complement the existing interests e.g. Head & Neck or skins.
* Experience in risk management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
£105,504 to £139,882 a year Dependant on experience
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