Locum Consultant Cellular Pathologist / Gynaecological Histopathology

Locum Consultant Cellular Pathologist / Gynaecological Histopathology

Main area

Histopathology

Grade

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract

12 months (Full-time 12-month Locum position maternity cover)

Hours

Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref

196-LCON1060

Employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type

NHS

Site

St Thomas' Hospital

Town

London

Salary

£99,532 - £131,964 p.a excl. London Zone

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

29/10/2024 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.







Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.







Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research.





We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success.





We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

This is a Locum consultant post x 2 covering maternity leave. The Department of Cellular Pathology is seeking two locum full-time (10 PA) consultants to join a dynamic and supportive team of colleagues. The post holder must have a demonstrable major interest in genealogical pathology with a current diagnostic gynaecological pathology practice.





The department is involved in many exciting initiatives and we are looking for an individual with appropriate skills to complement the teams and keep the service at the forefront of clinical and academic excellence. The laboratory has full UKAS/ISO accreditation status.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result,





any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.

Main place of employment:

This post will be based at the St Thomas’ site. However, it is a requirement of your employment that you be prepared to work at any additional or different location owned or served by the trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Lead in Cellular Pathology.

Specialist Interest

The Department operates a system of specialist reporting, each consultant having one or more special interests, which facilitates dealing with difficult cases and enhances patient care in accordance with Calman-Hine recommendations.

Specialist Interest







The Department operates a system of specialist reporting, each consultant having one or more special interests, which facilitates dealing with difficult cases and enhances patient care in accordance with Calman-Hine recommendations.

The specialist diagnostic pathology to be delivered by this locum post is gynaecological histopathology. However, a second specialist interest would be considered as a minor component of a post, depending on the requirements of the department at the time.

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in continuing professional development (CPD) and this form part of the supporting programmed activities in the agreed job plan.

Working for our organisation

Cellular Pathology Department







The Department of Cellular Pathology provides services to Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, local general practitioners in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Strategic Health Authority and local Coroners. It is a major cancer and infection referral centre. The main Cellular Pathology Department is located at St Thomas’ Hospital, 2nd Floor North Wing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gynaecologic pathology:

GSTT is a major tertiary referral centre for Gynaecologic oncology patients within South East London. The current gynaecological histopathology team consists of 6 consultants - Dr Giuseppe Culora, Dr Padma Menon, Dr Alexander Polson, Dr Olga Wise, Dr Mina Mansy, Dr Holly White & Dr Ahmed Ali. The current consultants also have other speciality interests.

The department deals with a mixture of biopsies and resections, including complex cancer specimens, as well as referrals for expert opinion or multidisciplinary discussion.

There is a large regional weekly gynaecologic oncology MDM, with typically around 45 patients discussed each week and attended by clinicians from referring hospitals in South East London. The pathology consultants support a team of 4 specialist surgical gynaecological oncologists whose range is continuously expanding, having recently started to perform ultra-radical surgery for ovarian cancer whilst continuing to offer exenteration surgery, fertility sparing surgery for cervical cancer and state of the art brachytherapy treatment for cervical cancer. Services offered to patients with vulval disease are also evolving with the establishment of a joint clinic between a gynaecological oncology surgeon and dermatologist.

The annual average total histopathology workload for the main department is circa 40,000 specimens, excluding skin and head & neck histopathology which are delivered from separate ultraspecialist laboratories within the Trust.

The department is actively involved in recruiting patients to national and international studies following the appointment of a dedicated research nurse, with pathological support provided by the gynaecological pathology team.

GSTT also currently hosts a large cervical cytology screening service and has a large colposcopy unit.

The team are actively involved in teaching undergraduate students and pathology trainees. Up to 2 histopathology trainees are allocated to the gynaecological pathology team on a monthly basis and are involved in all aspects of specimen dissection, histological interpretation and report writing.

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

· The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC full and specialist registration and hold a current licence to practice

· To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

· To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.

· To provide expert histopathology services with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
· To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care

Research, Teaching and Training

· Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

· To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.

· To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

Performance Management

To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

· Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.

· Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.

· Financial management, e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively such as managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.

· Operational efficiency, e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Medical Staff Management

· To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.

· To ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments

· To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.

· To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.

· To be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.

Governance

· To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

· To participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

· To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.

· To participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

· To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.

· To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.

· To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Strategy and Business Planning

· To participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.

· To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.

Leadership and Team Working

· To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.

· To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.

· To chair regular meetings for the specialties.

· To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.

· Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave, including reporting absence.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Dr Giuseppe Culora, Clinical Lead, ***************@gstt.nhs.uk.

▶️ Locum Consultant Cellular Pathologist / Gynaecological Histopathology
🖊️ St Thomas' Hospital
📍 London