Locum Gynae Consultant Pathologist

Job overview

If you are Ambitious, Brave and Compassionate there has never been a more exciting time to join our team. Ambitious and proud to provide world-class care everyone who works at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust team plays an important role in making our hospitals the incredible places they are. Our vision is to build a world leading team to deliver world class care.

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust are committed to creating the best place to work, where all staff can reach their full potential. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation. We look forward to receiving your application.

Applications are invited from a suitably qualified pathologist, for the post of Locum Consultant Histopathologist specialising in Gynaecological Pathology. This post is based at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The Department of Cellular Pathology at Birmingham Women’s Hospital provides specialist gynaecological pathology services to the Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS Trust, which is a Cancer Unit, and to the Regional Gynaecological Cancer Centre at Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital, which is part of the Pan-Birmingham Cancer Network. The applicant must have some experience in gynaecological pathology and will join a team of 3 consultant gynaecological pathologists and a Consultant Biomedical Scientist to deliver this specialist service. The post-holder is expected to attend multidisciplinary team meetings, and participate in relevant EQA schemes, CPD, departmental educational activities and the regional pathology training programme.

Applicants should have, or be eligible for full registration with the GMC, possess FRCPath or equivalent, and be included on the Specialist Register (Histopathology) or, if in training, eligible for inclusion on the Register within 6 months.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the requirements outlined in both the job description and person specification. This should include relevant transferable experience, qualifications, skills, and professional registration details, where applicable.

Please note that we occasionally receive a high volume of applications for our roles. In such circumstances, we may bring the closing date forward, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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.