Consultant Histopathologist

The main duties are those of a Consultant Histopathologist in a sub specialist department reporting for a regional cancer centre and three general hospitals. The duties include specialist reporting, MDM preparation and attendance, clinical audit and governance responsibilities, teaching and training. There are opportunities for Coronial work available for qualified individuals.

This is a replacement consultant appointment for the Department of Cellular Pathology at Maidstone Hospital following retirement of previous post holders. The department provides a cellular pathologyservice to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Medway NHS Foundation Trust and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and is housed in a purpose built Cellular Pathology building at Maidstone Hospital that opened in spring 2011. The successful candidate will join an existing team of 20 Consultants, 2 Consultant BMS (GI reporting and Gynaecological pathology reporting), a Molecular pathology Clinical Scientist, two Cut up Practitioners and 1 trainee cut-up practitioner.

A postmortem examination service with interest in teaching is provided from Tunbridge Wells Hospital with approximately 600 post postmortems being performed for HMC, North West Kent and East Sussex. An interest in joining the postmortem team would be welcomed.

Come to us and you'll join an amazing team, in modern, state-of-the-art hospitals in a beautiful part of South East England, and you'll be given all the support and training you need. We have a fantastic medical workforce and want to expand our substantive workforce to provide to best possible care to our patients and build on our existing clinical excellence.

Applicants must be on the specialist register for Cellular Pathology or be within 6 months of CCT at date of interview., Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the south east of England. The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care toaround 560,000 people living in the south of West Kent and northern East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs, and it operates from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. The latter is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital and provides wholly single bedded ensuite accommodation for in-patients. The Trust employs a team of over 5000 full and part-time staff. In addition, the Trust provides specialist cancer services to around 1.8 million people across Kent, Hastings and Rother, via the Kent Oncology Centre, which is sited at Maidstone Hospital, and at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury. The Trust also provides outpatient clinics across a wide range of locations in Kent and East Sussex