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Job Overview
Welcome to Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS). One of the country’s largest, most respected, and welcoming NHS Pathology networks. Our focus on clinical excellence means that we are the perfect place for you to progress as a professional. Our friendly, supportive, open culture makes this a unique place to support great patient care.
Job Overview
Welcome to Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS). One of the country’s largest, most respected, and welcoming NHS Pathology networks. Our focus on clinical excellence means that we are the perfect place for you to progress as a professional. Our friendly, supportive, open culture makes this a unique place to support great patient care.
We are proud to be one of the largest NHS Pathology networks in the country. We are NHS managed and driven to deliver the best quality service for our NHS patients. We strive to be the benchmark for other Pathology services to follow.
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a joint venture forming a patient centred pathology network with a clear vision. To provide a combined, integrated, and modern pathology service with employee well-being and development at its heart. The complete service model is based on a multi-site strategy, which delivers both routine and specialist in house testing whilst providing fast results to patients. Our success depends on professionals meticulous about clinical excellence, patient centered service and personal development. In return we drive knowledge sharing, training an open culture and in-house development. It’s a pivotal time for Pathology nationally, so come and embrace this at BSPS.
Main duties of the job
The post holders must be medically qualified and have full registration with a current license to practice with the GMC. If applicants are UK trained, they must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. If applicants are non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT (i.e., CESR) or be within six months of obtaining such an award by the date of the interview.
A high level of competence and full participation in diagnostic histopathology will be essential and involvement in departmental audit is required. Applicants both with and without well-developed subspecialty interests are encouraged to apply. Practitioners unable for personal reasons to work full time are welcome to apply for this post.
If you would like to come and visit or require further information, please contact Dr Ritu Chhikara: r.chhikara@nhs.net or Dr Vishwas Iyer: vishwas.iyer@nhs.net
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This is a fixed term post, and the successful applicant will form part of a team of six Consultant Histopathologists who will share equally in the surgical cut-up and reporting rota. This is a general histopathology department, and the current pathologist body reports all main diagnostic specialties including breast, urology, gastrointestinal, skin and gynaecology. Smaller specialties such as lung are also represented. There is no sessional commitment to cytopathology.
For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
* Consultant Histopathologist with at least five years Experience
Desirable criteria
* Has experience with NHSE Screening programs
Essential
Essential criteria
* Participation in training and supervision of trainees
Desirable criteria
* Willingness to develop a sub-speciality interest
Essential
Essential criteria
* Participation in QA, CPD and BSI ISO:15189 accreditation
Desirable criteria
* Relevant research published in a peer reviewed journal
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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