Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £61,542 - £99,216 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/07/2025 23:59
Histopathology Specialty Doctor
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you :
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a Specialty Doctor to work in the Histopathology/Cellular Pathology Departments at North Tyneside General Hospital.
There are at present 5 Consultant Histopathologists, 2 Speciality Doctors and one retired consultant on the bank within the department based at North Tyneside General Hospital. The department has full UKAS ISO 15189; 2022 accreditation.
The histology workload amounts to approximately 23,000 requests per year and covers a broad range of medical and surgical specialties (excluding neuropathology and renal biopsies). A full range of special stains is available and immunocytochemistry staining is fully automated with a wide range of antibodies available. There are approximately 2500 non-gynae cases received annually, comprising fine needle aspirates from most sites with the usual range of brushings and washings from the bronchus, FNA breast, thyroid, pleural, peritoneal washings, bile duct brushings and urine samples.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications have been received.
Please note agency fees will not be paid as part of this recruitment.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be encouraged to gradually undertake the full range of pathologist duties involved in the delivery of the histopathology/cytology provision – including opening of specimens, cutting up and reporting of the range of biopsies and resections (GI, Breast, Gynae, Skin, Urology, lung) as well as non-gynae cytology. These will be under supervision to begin with and gradually progressing to independent levels. The candidates will also be fully supported to achieve CESR by rotating them to relevant specialties if needed at local neighbouring Trusts.
The post holder must have an empathetic and sensitive approach to patients’ needs with an ability to show concern for others recognising individual work-life needs.
Demonstrate highly effective communication skills with an ability to influence and negotiate and use power appropriately within the organisation. Be an approachable team member who is inclusive, co-operative, caring and a good listener who acts appropriately where necessary on what is being said.
Manage the boundaries appropriately within the team showing loyalty through development of a positive and responsible approach to lessons learnt in team errors.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues.
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.
The Job Plan will typically include an average of 9.0 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 1.0 Programmed Activity for Supporting Professional Activities.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
* Full registration and licence to practice with the General Medical Council (GMC)
* Shall have completed at least four years’ fulltime postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis), at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in histopathology or as a fixed-term specialty trainee in a histopathology
* Shall have FRCPath part 2 or European equivalent and also should have at least 6 months experience in Cellular Pathology in the UK
* The appointee will be required to maintain full GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice
* Experience of, and commitment to, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
* Experience of Audit Management
* Experience of teaching
* Formal training in Clinical Supervision/train the trainers
* Experience of coronial post mortem work and willingness to participate in an autopsy rota
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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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 Kirti Sharma Job title Clinical Lead Cellular Pathology Email address Kirti.Sharma@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number 0191 293 4519
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