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Job overview
The successful candidate will play an important role in the redesign of service provision in light of the Health Board’s Clinical Futures strategy and the Welsh Government “Future Delivery of Pathology Services in Wales” document.
You will be working within a team to provide a clinical and laboratory Cellular Pathology service to a catchment population of 600,000. The laboratory has full UKAS ISO15189 accreditation and is networked to provide a comprehensive Cellular Pathology service to the area.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will play an important role in reporting the Health Board's current histopathology backlog, with the bulk of the work being GI and skin backlogs. The ability to report other specialties will be beneficial.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and have an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home, as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital, which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description.
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This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012), and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer: an adults and children’s barred list check.
Candidates for Consultant posts must also be on the GMC Specialist Register or working towards Specialist Registration via CESR/European Community Rights and must hold FRCPath qualification.
Person specification
Qualifications
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To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr. Majid Rashid
Job title: Clinical Director Pathology
Email address: majid.rashid@wales.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01633 234162
Additional information: Dr. James Harrison, Clinical Lead, Department of Cellular Pathology, on 01633 234714.
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