Consultant Histopathologist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The Departments of Cellular Pathology are friendly and busy departments that support many multidisciplinary teams for cancer specialists including breast, upper and lower gastrointestinal, lung, urology, gynaecology, head and neck and haematology. Our surgical and medical colleagues are very appreciative of the high quality diagnostic service we provide and this is reflected in our excellent working relationships with our clinical colleagues.

The Pathology Department at The Royal Oldham Hospital is housed in a purpose built and innovatively designed laboratory providing a comprehensive clinical and diagnostic service across the Trust. The Department is UKAS Accredited. The state of the art facilities have been designed and constructed with the professional in mind.

Salford Royal Hospital is a teaching hospital and all consultants are involved in teaching medical students and training medical staff. Development of management skills is actively encouraged with Trust based courses and the opportunity for career progression within divisional management is available to all colleagues.

We are looking for 2 positions:
**1x Oldham Royal Hospital & **1x Salford Royal Hospital**

**Permanent or Fixed NHS locum**

**Main duties of the job**:
**Putting your needs under the microscope**

We commit to providing you with:

- A consultant team with clear vision for the continued success of their department.
- Support for your own personal development utilising our strong links with external stakeholders.
- A flexible approach to job planning that delivers a working environment to best suit you and your team.
- An opportunity for additional PA’s and coronial post mortem work.
- A workload that is distributed amongst the team using Royal College guidelines for Histopathology and Cytopathology departments.
- Opportunities to work with other local organisations to enhance your skills and experience.
- Participation and support with local and national clinical trials.

Networking and development opportunities. The Histopathology teams at The Northern Care Alliance (NCA), a group of two trusts Salford Royal Foundation Trust (SRFT) and Pennine Acute Trust PAHNT) is looking to appoint quality driven Histopathology consultants to join our high performing team on our Oldham and Salford sites. We provide a comprehensive, efficient and cost effective Cellular Pathology service to SRFT and PAHNT and Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL). We are looking to enhance our skilled and committed team of 21 general consultants with individuals who can drive our continued success and contribute to an exciting future.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**qulification**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Full and specialist registration with the General Medical Council

**experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Wide experience in Histopathology and Diagnostic Cytopathology

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.