Employer: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Hampshire County Hospital
Town: Winchester
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/10/2024 23:59
Consultant
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Job overview
The appointment is a new post for a full-time consultant histopathologist. The successful candidate will join the existing team of nine consultant histopathologists, plus one part-time specialist; currently five based at the Basingstoke Hospital site and four based at the Winchester Hospital site and one part-time specialist working remotely. The post is intended to be full-time and will be for 10 programmed activities. The post will be based on the Winchester site, which is also the laboratory processing hub site. Because this is a single department, consultants may be required to work across sites. The base hospital of the consultant is subject to change as the clinical services across the sites are reconfigured.
The appointee will be expected to have broad general experience in diagnostic histopathology and cytopathology. An interest in developing specialist reporting of pseudomyxoma specimens is highly desirable. Basingstoke is one of the tertiary referral centres in the UK for this service. All candidates will be encouraged to develop an interest that will complement the other consultants. Post-mortem work for H M Coroner is outside of this contract but is highly desirable.
Main duties of the job
The job plan is for a 10 PA working week (8.0 Clinical PAs and 2.0 Supporting PAs). The post holder and the Chief Executive (or nominee) will review the job plan each year to ensure that it meets the objectives of the Trust and the personal development plan of the post holder.
Local procedures will be followed in the event of any disagreement over proposed changes, culminating in an appeal to a sub-committee of the Trust Board.
General reporting is currently performed at both the Basingstoke and Winchester sites. Development of a specialist interest will be encouraged. The appointee will participate in the daily rotas of surgical cut-up and reporting; this will include major cancer resections. The appointee will be expected to have a wide experience of histopathology and will be encouraged to develop an area of specialist interest that will complement that existing within the department. The appointee will also be required to report non-gynaecological cytology. There is no requirement to report cervical cytology samples from the National Cervical Screening Programme.
All consultants including the appointee will be expected to be involved in implementing the Trust clinical governance programme. This includes active participation in clinical audit and quality clinical guidelines pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management. There is a Divisional Clinical Governance and Quality Group that meets on a monthly basis.
Working for our organisation
The department of Cellular Pathology is a single department that is currently based on two sites. The Cellular Pathology laboratory is consolidated on to the Winchester site whilst consultant presence is maintained on both sites. The laboratory participates in appropriate external quality assurance (EQA) schemes. Pathology has a Clinisys fully integrated Laboratory Information System covering all departments. The laboratory system is capable of receiving electronic orders from the rest of the Hospital, reports are visible to the hospital electronically. Facilities exist to search computerised records in histology and cytology for research, audit and teaching purposes. A voice recognition dictation system is available for pathologists to dictate surgical pathology, non-gynaecological cytology and post-mortems.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description & Person Specification document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
* Full registration (and a licence to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
* Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT or equivalent), or within six months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
* FRCPath or equivalent
* MD or PhD
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
* Evidence of completed training programme in Cellular Pathology
* Previous experience of working within wider subspecialties
Clinical Skills & Ability
* Ability to report as a general histopathologist, covering wider range of subspecialties as highlighted under additional information
* Developing a special interest in subspecialties
* Qualified to undertake post-mortem examinations
Research & Teaching Skills
* Ability to teach pathology to trainees and biomedical scientists
* Willingness to participate in research and clinical trial work
Other Specific Requirements
* Participation in clinical audit and attendance at appropriate course as part of RCPath CPD portfolio
* Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/negotiate
* Ability to work flexibly within specialist teams, to take responsibility, lead and make decisions where appropriate
* Ability to work co-operatively with others
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
* HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
* Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
* All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
* In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
* This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Dr Rajesh Rawlani
Job title: Consultant Histopathologist
Email address: Rajesh.Rawlani@hhft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01256 473202
Additional information:
Dr Kirsty Gordon, Clinical Director on 01256 313285
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