Locum Consultant Pathologist

This is a full time locum Consultant appointment in Cellular Pathology, expected to be predominantly in Head & Neck pathology. The post will be based at St. James's University Hospital in the Department of Cellular Pathology which is based in Bexley Wing and Chancellor Wing. The objectives of the post are to deliver care to patients with pathology service provision including biopsy and cytology reporting, specimen cut up, excision (benign and oncology) reporting and MDT meeting support. You will be expected to work alongside trainees and Consultants in other specialist teams within the Department and to contribute to teaching, audit, research, and service developments as required. Dr Rebecca Millican-Slater is the current Clinical Service Lead for Cellular Pathology and is responsible to the Pathology CSU Leadership Team. Mrs Sarah Caton is the Service Manager for Cellular Pathology. The Clinical Service Lead is supported by dedicated leads for medical training, appraisal, clinical
governance, audit and research. Lead roles have been strengthened and developed to move further towards a devolved management structure to give individual consultants opportunities for management experience. The Department digitally scans all of its histopathology slides which enables all Consultants to report digitally following successful validation. There is a full programme of MDT and clinico-pathological meetings done in well-equipped meeting rooms or virtually. Within the department, there are double-headed microscopes in dedicated rooms, multiheader microscopes and a Powerwall available for teaching. The department has facilities for photomicrography and macroscopic photography and assistance with these is provided by our departmental audiovisual personnel. There are currently 41 consultants in 35 whole time equivalent posts and a significant number of Histopathology trainees based in the Department who you will be expected to participate in the training of.