Locum Consultant Paediatric & Perinatal Pathologist

Main area: Histopathology

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract: 6 months (Full-time 6-month Locum position)

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref: 196-LCON1070

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: St Thomas' Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 p.a excl. London Zone

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59

This is a 6-month fixed term Locum consultant post. The Department of Cellular Pathology is seeking a locum full-time (10 PA) consultant to join a dynamic and supportive team of colleagues. The post holder must have a demonstrable major interest in paediatric and perinatal 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.

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.

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.

Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology:

1. Together with other consultants provide a service for paediatric and perinatal pathology across GSTFT (Paediatric surgical reporting, Perinatal Autopsies).
2. Carry out coronial paediatric post-mortem examinations.
3. Supervising pathology trainees in relevant aspects of post-mortem dissection, surgical cut-up and reporting.
4. Teaching, training, and audit and research in the specialist areas.
5. Collaborating with other consultant colleagues in specialist areas and formally liaising with designated senior and junior staff to cover duties when absent from the Department.

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.

Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology:

1. Together with other consultants provide a service for paediatric and perinatal pathology across GSTFT (Paediatric surgical reporting, Perinatal Autopsies).
2. Carry out coronial paediatric post-mortem examinations.
3. Supervising pathology trainees in relevant aspects of post-mortem dissection, surgical cut-up and reporting.
4. Teaching, training, and audit and research in the specialist areas.
5. Collaborating with other consultant colleagues in specialist areas and formally liaising with designated senior and junior staff to cover duties when absent from the Department.

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

1. The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice.
2. To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
3. To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
4. To provide expert histopathology services in with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
5. To participate in the provision of the perinatal and paediatric pathology service.
6. To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.

Research, Teaching and Training

1. 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.
2. To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
3. To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

Performance Management

1. To work with medical, and nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
2. Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
3. Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
4. Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
5. Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Medical Staff Management

1. To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
2. 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.
3. To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
4. To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
5. 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

1. To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
2. Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
3. To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
4. Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
5. To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
6. To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
7. To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Strategy and Business Planning

1. To participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.
2. To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.

Leadership and Team Working

1. To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
2. To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.
3. To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
4. To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
5. 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, giuseppe.culora@gstt.nhs.uk.