Consultant Histopathologist

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, forward thinking Consultant Histopathologists to join our team of 35 consultants at University Hospitals Birmingham covering a large and comprehensive range of diagnostic surgical and cytology work.

UHB has close links with UOB and is dedicated to developing and implementing ground breaking treatments, technologies and techniques.Research and teaching opportunities exist and are encouraged. UHB University Hospitals Birmingham is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, providing services from four acute hospital sites and community locations. Bringing together hospitals and community services from across region, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 23,500 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We are committed to delivering an inclusive environment with equal opportunities to a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities it serves.

Our vision is to build healthier lives by delivering the best in clinical care, research, innovation and education. We are also fully committed to tackling climate change by reducing our impact and are part of the national aim to be the world's first "net zero" National Health Service. Our strategy champions our actions and aims, with ways to share excellent ideas that will deliver greener, cleaner communities for the people of Birmingham and Solihull

We are a fully accredited UKAS Laboratory working to ISO15189

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
Applicants must hold Full and Specialist Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a License to Practice (or be eligible for registration within 6 months of date of interview), and Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (or evidence of equivalent qualification). If newly qualified UK trainee, the applicant must also be a holder of the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT (or equivalent) by date of interview. Applicants who are non-UK trained will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.

You will be supported by strong and experienced specialist reporting teams. The department is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is proactive in developing and adopting solutions to maintain high quality sustainable reporting including an expanding scientist dissection and reporting strategy, automated laboratory processes.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
a.It is anticipated the full time job plan will contain 10 programmed activities worked flexibly by mutual agreement (Appendix 1). These will include 8.0 PAs for direct clinical care and 2.0 SPAs for supporting professional activities. Laboratory duties are carried out on a rota basis by agreement with consultant colleagues. They include the provision of a comprehensive diagnostic histopathology service for The Trust.

b.Division of the cytopathology workload will be organised in agreement with other consultant colleagues in the department. It is anticipated that existing consultants will continue to have an input into the cytology service in line with areas of specialist histopathology reporting. Other appointees may be required to contribute to the cytopathology service in a similar manner.

c.Supporting professional activities will include supervision and training of Regional Histopathology Trainees, teaching (undergraduate and postgraduate), research, audit and continuing professional development.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- GMC Registration or equivalent
- Inclusion on Specialist Register or CCT within 6 mont