Junior Clinical FellowFixed Term

Advanced Clinical Fellow Cellular Pathology for Portfolio Pathway

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

CQC: Good

Wolverhampton

Salary

£71,018 – £71,018

Training post

Unknown

Trust type

Acute

Posted

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About the role

Successful appointees will be encouraged and supported in achieving the competencies required for a Portfolio Pathway application in Histopathology, thereby entering the Specialty Register and eventually taking up a consultant position.

The job will consist of work in BCPS Cellular Pathology Department. Cellular Pathology is now fully consolidated and located in a purpose-built integrated Pathology Building located on the New Cross Hospital site and our services provide patient care to Walsall NHS Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Dudley Group Foundation Trust, and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Our annual workload this year is 100,000 histology requests with around 154,000 histology specimens, supporting 59 MDTs across the region. The annual workload for the gynae cytology screening work for the West Midlands is approximately 400,000 samples. In addition, there are 4,000 non-gynae cytology samples.

Advanced Clinical Fellow Cellular Pathology for Portfolio Pathway

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

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The current clinical establishment comprises 31 Consultant Histopathologists 4 locum consultants and one Consultant Healthcare Scientists one Specialty Doctor, and 10 Histopathology Trainees. The clinical workforce is fully sub-specialised with each Consultant Histopathologists providing specialist expertise in one to four individual specialties, depending upon individual interest and workload.

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he successful candidate will also be encouraged to develop specialist interests in two or more areas of histopathology. Portfolio Pathway fellows will be treated as equivalents to core and specialist trainees in Histopathology

The specialties of interest would be as follows

Gynae

Skin

Heampath

Lung

Respiratory

Non Gynae Cytology

Urology and Renal

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Successful candidate will be actively encouraged to participate in ongoing research activities within the department. • The holder is expected to be flexible in order to take full advantage of the post. • The post is designed to facilitate the incumbent to apply for Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR). • In conjunction with colleagues, to play a full part in the rota for the department. • To provide cover for colleagues in respect of periods of leave. • In conjunction with colleagues, to take part in medical audit and research as appropriate. • In conjunction with colleagues, to ensure that the requirements of clinical governance are met. • To ensure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of patients

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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

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Person specification

Essential

FRCPath Cellular Pathology (Histopathology) examination
Previous training in Cellular Pathology
Previous experience working in Cellular Pathology (Histopathology) at senior registrar or consultant level
Ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team and maintain good relations with colleagues
Commitment to the specialty, able to evidence self-directed learning, understands the requirement for achievement of competencies for Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) in the UK

Desirable

Understanding of NHS clinical governance structure, audit process and participation in research
Evidence of teaching and training others