We are seeking a Consultant Cellular Pathologist (10 PAs) to join our established team of 10 consultants within a busy, high-performing department at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Based at our fully accredited laboratory in Hemel Hempstead, you will contribute to a broad range of subspecialties, including significant workloads in gynaecological, dermatopathology, gastrointestinal, and breast pathology. There are also opportunities to participate in diagnostic cytology, mortuary, andrology, and MDT work.
This is an exciting time to join, with pathology service developments across the Herts & West Essex ICB and major hospital improvements underway. You will bring specialist registration (or be within six months), FRCPath or equivalent, and a collaborative, flexible approach.
Core hours are Monday-Friday with occasional MDT and service commitments; detailed job plan discussed at interview.
Your responsibilities include delivering high-quality histopathology and diagnostic cytology reporting, participating in subspecialty cancer diagnostics, providing MDT input, and contributing to autopsy and andrology services where appropriate.
Other duties involve workload management, timely reporting, audit participation, governance, teaching, and supporting service development. You will work closely with consultant colleagues, laboratory staff, and clinicians across multiple sites to ensure excellent patient care.
We are looking for a dynamic team player with broad cellular pathology experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work flexibly within a multidisciplinary team.
With a new hospital planned for Watford and updates underway at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imagining models of care, working more closely with partners and leveraging advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are priorities at our Trust, as is innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes, and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional, and inclusive. These reflect what we must all do as individuals and in supporting others.
We offer various flexible working options to support a good work-life balance.
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