Consultant Pathologist, Anatomical Pathology (Mt Wellington)

New Zealand Government; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora in Auckland is seeking an experienced Anatomic Pathologist to join the Mt Wellington laboratory. This full-time permanent role offers a diverse, high-volume setting within NZ's largest community-based pathology service.

You will work 40–50 hours per week, with hours negotiated at interview, rosters, and occasional on-call. Applicants should be pathologists with NZ vocational registration or eligibility and an interest in dermatopathology.

Qualifications

• Trained Anatomical Pathologist with eligibility for Medical Council of New Zealand registration.
• Overseas qualifications require source verification for NZ registration.
• Interest or experience in dermatopathology encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Provide anatomical pathology services across subspecialties with focus areas as needed.
• Work between 40 and 50 hours per week; hours negotiated at interview.
• Rostered hours with on-call may be required but uncommon.

Skills

Anatomical Pathology

Dermatopathology

Education

Anatomical Pathologist with NZ vocational registration

Job description

Full-time permanent role.

Based at our Mt Wellington site.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Anatomic Pathologist to join our team based at Mt Wellington, Auckland.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with NZs largest and highly specialised community based laboratory service.

In this role, you will be working between 40 and 50 hours per week. However, the actual hours of work will be negotiated with the Clinical Lead during the interview stage.

You will work rostered hours to meet the requirements of the service as needed. On call may be required but is uncommon.

Anatomic Pathology Service (APS) in Mt Wellington provides services to approximately 4,000 private specialists, private surgical hospitals and general practitioners with up to 500 histology specimens received per day, and a further 15-20 for non-gynaecological cytology.

The specimens cover a wide range of subspecialties in the areas of skin, gastroenterological, gynaecological, breast, head and neck, respiratory and urological pathology.

This service also covers approximately one third of the national cervical screening programme.

Gynecologic cytology is an option for this position but not obligatory. This role does not involve autopsies, which are under the auspices of the National Forensic Pathology Service.

APS processes a large volume of skin samples and is an ideal environment for candidates who have an interest or expertise in dermatopathology.

We regularly train candidates, with excellent success rate thus far, in preparation for advanced dermatopathology certification including the European examination and the Australasian College- the latter only when available.

Specialization in any area of work here however is encouraged since the volume allows people to narrow their scope to mutually agreed combinations of organ systems.

For further details, please see the position description here.

About the Team/Service/ Location

Our Anatomic Pathology Service (APS) in Mt Wellington provides services to approximately 600 private specialists and 2,000 general practitioners with up to 450 histology cases per day, and a further 15-20 non-gynaecological cytology cases.

The cases cover a wide range of subspecialties including dermatologic, gastroenterological, gynaecological, breast, head and neck, respiratory and urological pathology.

This service also provides the cervical screening programme for the northern third of the country- currently transitioning to HPV primary screening.

We support specialisation with work confined to a combination of organ systems.

We are the regional community laboratory specifically operated by Te Toka Tumai / Auckland City Hospital.

We provide anatomical pathology services for approximately 30% of the population when they seek care from their general practitioners or specialists in private surgical practice. (Patients attending the public hospitals obtain their anatomical pathology from the three public hospital laboratories, also operated by Health New Zealand).

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About you

As the ideal candidate for this role you will be a trained Anatomical Pathologist and will either have or be eligible for vocational registration with Medical Council of New Zealand.

Please note, if you are not currently registered in New Zealand and have overseas medical qualifications, you will be required to provide source verification of your qualifications for your registration application.

For more information about the registration process and source verification of qualifications, please visit www.mcnz.org.nz.

For more information, please contact Dr Michael Hitchcock on [e-mail].

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand.

We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community.

We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.