Consultant in Cellular Pathology

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon invites applications for the Consultant in Cellular Pathology. You will join a well-established team with senior consultants and contribute to high-quality pathology services, teaching, and research.

The successful candidate will have GMC registration, UK training pathway credentials, and proven leadership in a busy pathology department. Flexible working and NHS Pension may be available along with ongoing professional development support.

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC.
• CCT or equivalent (or CESR) at interview or within 6 months of interview.
• FRCPath (UK) or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Join an existing team of senior staff and provide training to juniors.
• Lead a multi-professional team and take responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Demonstrate management, audit and leadership skills and support CPD activities.
• Teach clinical skills to trainees and supervise postgraduate research.

Skills

Leadership

Audit experience

Teaching

IT skills

Education

GMC registration

CCT or CESR

FRCPath (UK)

Tools

Immunohistochemistry hardware

Digital pathology scanners

Job description

Employer Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Great Western Hospital Town Swindon Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/09/2026 23:59

Consultant in Cellular Pathology

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.

Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.

We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.

Job overview

We are a friendly department and would welcome any interested candidates to visit the Trust or to get in touch to ask any questions that you might have. The team is also open to discussing other sub-specialty interests you might like to explore in a potential job plan. Shortlisted candidates are encouraged to visit the Trust and meet senior members of staff and management teams. Details will be shared following shortlisting.

The department has UKAS accreditation to ISO151589:2022. It processes and reports, per year, approximately 23,000 surgical specimens (approximately 18,000 for the NHS with 16% from general practitioners), 1200 diagnostic cytopathology specimens and 1000 semenology samples.

Main duties of the job

The laboratory was designed in collaboration with the staff and has modern equipment including height adjustable dissection benches and a recently introduced Sakura Tissue-Tek Prisma® Plus automated slide stainer and coverslipper, and a Dako Omnis immunohistochemistry immunostainer. Another similar immunostainer is being brought in to meet the increasing demands of immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology. The laboratory currently operates with two digital scanners which are used on a daily basis.

Working for our organisation

Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The appointed candidates will join an existing team of 6 senior medical staff including Consultants. On joining the department, you will become part of a well-established, friendly team and will help us continue to drive forward improvements in the service that we provide to our patients. As a senior member of the team, you will become a key part in the delivery of training and supervision to our junior colleagues.

As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trusts Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC
• CCT (or equivalent for non-UK applicants of equivalent status), or be accredited (or equivalent), and be on the GMC Specialist Register in the specialty appropriate for this consultant post at the time of taking up the consultant appointment. Alternatively, candidates can hold or be within 6 months of their CCT at interview or have applied to be on the GMC Specialist register via CESR.
• FRCPath (UK) or equivalent

Clinical Experience

• Clinical training/experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
• Expertise in full range of Cellular Pathology workload
• Ability to lead a multi-professional team and take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Sub-speciality interests will be supported. The department is particularly interested in pathologists practising hematopathology, gynaecological Pathology, uropathology and GI pathology.

Management Administration

• Demonstrable ability to manage priorities
• Demonstrable multi-disciplinary team leadership skills
• Evidence of participation in audit and understanding basic principles of management
• Flexible approach to work organisation
• Evidence of management/leadership skills training
• Intermediate to Advanced level IT skills

Teaching & Research

• Ability to teach clinical skills to trainees, laboratory staff and multi disciplinary teams
• Interest in leading multi-professional education
• Publications in peer reviewed journals is desirable
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Caring and empathetic attitude to patients
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, health professionals, hospital staff and other agencies.
• Commitments to Continuing Professional Development
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
• Willingness to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust wide sites if required as directed by the department Clinical Lead

Thank you for expressing interest in this role. For further employer guidance, please review the attached supplementary applicant information.

Certificate of Sponsorship - Sponsorship can only be offered where the role meets the relevant eligibility criteria, including minimum salary requirements. Please note that not all roles within the organisation are eligible for sponsorship. Eligibility for this role includes:

• Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification

Meeting the Skilled Worker visa criteria, where applicable

From 4 April 2024, UK immigration policy changes increased the minimum salary levels required for Skilled Worker visas. Further information is available on the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.

Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £21.50 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £49.50 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.

We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.

Upon acceptance of a job offer, your information will be transferred to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records System. All communication regarding your application will be conducted via email; please ensure to check your junk/spam folders as emails may occasionally be filtered there.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.