About this role
Job summary
Applications are invited for two permanent Senior Clinical Fellow posts in Histopathology, commencing as soon as possible.
This is an excellent opportunity within the Pathology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will form part of the Trust's pathology department and will be a part of a team that includes 8 consultants, one locum consultant and 3 Senior clinical fellows providing a comprehensive Cellular Pathology service. The department provides a comprehensive range of services for our resident population of approximately 600,000 residing mainly in East and North Hertfordshire and extends to the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, West Hertfordshire and Essex.
The Histopathology Service supports the various clinical specialties. These include the Breast cancer service, General Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Colo-rectal Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology & Obstetrics (including active colposcopy unit), ENT, Dermatology, Respiratory Medicine Care for the elderly medicine, Paediatrics, Rheumatology. The department also receives GP samples from east & north Hertfordshire district.
Main duties of the job
o To participate in surgical cutup, surgical reporting, cytology reporting, participating in frozen section service, thus ensuring the delivery of a high-quality histopathology, cytopathology service.o To advise and be available for consultation on clinical matters both generally and on an individual patient basis with clinical colleagues in the hospital, general practitioners and Trust staff.o To participate in the department's teaching, audit, and educational activities.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description Job responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
MBBS or qualification of an equivalent level FRCPath Part 1
Experience Essential
Good range of experience in general histopathology Experience in Histopathology/Cytology at ST3 level or equivalent
Desirable
NHS experience
Fitness to Practive Essential
Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs Evidences engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Clinical Governance Essential
Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Teaching Essential
Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
Desirable
Ability to teach clinical skills Experience in organising educational activities
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Ln
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)