Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Health
Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice
- Personal
Effective communication skills, both written and oral.
- Personal
Good organisation skills.
- Personal
Works well within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Personal
Resident within 30 minutes travel time to Preston.
- Management
Evidence of Clinical Leadership
- Management
Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development
- Qualifications
Full and specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- Qualifications
MBChB or equivalent or evidence of equivalent qualifications
- Qualifications
FRCPath or evidence of equivalent qualification
- Qualifications
If an applicant is UK trained, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
- Qualifications
Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT/CESR
- Experience & Skills
Wide range of experience in Histopathology and Non-Gynae Cytology
- Research and Development
Evidence of interest in personal development e.g. through research and/or publications
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Personal
Car owner/driver
- Management
Management course/ certificate.
- Management
Computer skills
- Qualifications
Evidence of academic excellence in Pathology
- Experience & Skills
Interest in other specialist areas including Dermatopathology, Oral/Head and Neck pathology.
- Experience & Skills
Qualified to perform autopsies
- Research and Development
Evidence of developing new diagnostic services
Job overview
We have a vacancy arise for a Consultant post in Cellular Pathology. This will be based be based at Royal Preston Hospital. and is a full time, permanent post.
The working week will be - Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm with no expectation of providing on call for this post.
The successful applicant will join our team of consultants and will be required to provide a comprehensive histopathology service. You would not be required to report neuropathology cases.
You will also be required to develop specialist interests to complement the existing specialist Cancer services.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to co-operate with other members of the Pathology Directorate to ensure effective administrative arrangements are made in the laboratory, which will include: -
- Recruitment and appointment of junior medical staff, BMSs and secretarial staff having dealings with the histopathology department.
- The arrangement of rosters of staff, the allocation of duties to them and their instruction in necessary organisational matters.
- Co-ordination with staff in other professional disciplines and health care workers outside the hospital.
- Attendance at Board meetings and other committees when pathology issues are being discussed and to participate in resource management.
- Continuing management responsibility by agreement with other consultants in the Cellular Pathology Department, specifically for the service in his/her charge and for administrative duties associated with these services and the proper functioning of the department, though he/she may delegate certain responsibilities to the senior staff within the department.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
- What we can offer
- Job Plan/On-call Requirements
- The Team
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This advert is for Consultant in Cellular Pathology with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Pathology role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent: Full time. The application deadline is 15 Sep 2026.
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