Senior Clinical Fellow in Histopathology

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of Senior Clinical Fellow in Histopathology to commence as soon as possible for 12 months.

This is an excellent opportunity within the Pathology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will form part of the Trust's pathology department and will be a part of a team that includes 7 consultants providing a comprehensive Cellular Pathology service. The department provides a comprehensive range of services for our resident population of approximately 500,000 residing mainly in East and North Hertfordshire and extends to the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, West Hertfordshire and Essex.

The Histopathology Service supports the various clinical specialties. These include the Breast cancer service, General Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Colo-rectal Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology & Obstetrics (including active colposcopy units), ENT, Dermatology, Respiratory Medicine Care for the elderly medicine, Paediatrics, Rheumatology. It also receives GP samples from east & north Hertfordshire district.

Main duties of the job

o Maintenance of high-quality patient centred careo Support Consultants in the responsibility for the day to day management of the service and participation in strategic planningo Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary serviceo Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity.

Active participation in continuing medical education

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.