Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Teaching Skills
Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
- Progression Career
Appropriate progression of career to date
- Personal Attributes
Evidence of:- Good communication skills both oral and written
- Academic and Research
Evidence of participation in audit
- Experience/Qualifications
Basic medical degree
- Experience/Qualifications
FRCPath Part 2 or its recognised equivalent
- Experience/Qualifications
Full and specialist registration (with a licence to practise) with the GMC or be eligible for registration within six months of the interview. • If you trained in the UK, you must also have a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in pathohogy or be within six months of receiving it by the interview date. • If you trained outside the UK, you must provide evidence that your qualifications are equivalent to the UK CCT. (Equivalence must be confirmed by GMC by date of AAC
- Organisation and Planning
Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams
- Organisation and Planning
Understanding of: NHS / Clinical governance / Resource constraints
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Reporting Cellular pathology cases
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Reporting of frozen sections
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Breadth of experience in and outside specialty
- Teaching Skills
Recognised teaching qualification
- Academic and Research
Research experience
- Academic and Research
Publications
- Academic and Research
Prizes and honours
- Experience/Qualifications
Higher Degree
- Organisation and Planning
Evidence of managerial skills: Achievements / Course attended
- Clinical Skills and Experience
NGS and therapeutic IHC solid tumour testing
Job overview
We are recruiting a substantive Consultant Cellular Pathologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
You will work within supportive and experienced sub specialty teams in Gynecological and Gastrointestinal Pathology to help deliver high quality, timely diagnostics.
You will also contribute to leadership, training, research, and our regional Sussex network collaboration.
Main duties of the job
The clinical duties of the post include the following:
- Independent reporting of diagnostic cellular pathology case with a focus on Gynaecological and Gastrointestinal Pathology.
- Participation in relevant Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings and provision of timely clinicopathological advice.
- Clinical supervision of trainees and contribution to undergraduate and postgraduate education (including BSMS).
- Participation in clinical governance, audit, EQA, quality improvement, service development and leadership.
- Adherence to Trust policies including information governance, health and safety, safeguarding and equality, diversity and inclusion.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Substantive consultant post
Essential subspecialties: Gynaecological and Gastrointestinal Pathology.
Based at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and work across UHSussex sites as required. Training-active department with BSMS teaching and supervision of histopathology trainees. Nil on-call. Full conditions and person specification in the JD.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Consultant in Cellular Pathology with University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in Worthing, 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. The application deadline is 22 Sep 2026.
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