Consultant Histopathologist

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Provisional Assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan: The base contract will be for 10 programmed activities. This will be based on the nationally agreed whole-time contract. Provisional Assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan: Day Time Location Description of Activity Categorisation DCC, SPA, AR, ED* No of PAs Monday 08:30-10:00 BRI or at home* Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.375 10:00-12:30 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.625 12:30-13:00 Break 1.0 13:00-16:30 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC Tuesday 09:00-12:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.75 12:00-12:30 Break 1.25 12:30-17:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC Wednesday 08:00-11:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.75 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-14:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.625 14:00-1700 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.75 Thursday 09:00-12:30 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.875 12:30-13:00 Break 0.375 13:00-14:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 14:00-16:30 BRI or at home Admin, audit, teaching, EQA, clinical governance, etc. SPA 0.625 Friday 09:00-10:00 BRI or at home Skin MDT (rotational sessions*) or Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.25 10:00-13:00 BRI or at home Clinical Histopathology DCC 0.75 13:00-13:30 Break 0.5 13:30-15:00 BRI or at home Clinical histopathology DCC 15:00-17:00* BRI or at home Admin, audit, teaching, EQA, clinical governance, etc.
SPA 0.5 Predictable emergency on-call work No on call commitment Unpredictable emergency on-call work TOTAL PAs 10.0 *Direct Clinical Care (DCC), Supporting Professional Activities (SPA), External Duties (ED) or Additional NHS Responsibilities (AR) Flexibility is an important part of the professional contract. Although the default place of work is the Trust, Histopathology Consultants can spend up to 50% of their weekly contractual obligations working from home. Attending the histopathology department at BRI from 0900 to 1700 is mandatory on days when the Consultant is rotated to be on hot seat duty. *Clinical Histopathology includes microscopy, gross pathology, frozen section analysis, hot seat duty, as well as trainee case checking and one-on-one double-header training.
All full-time Consultant Histopathologists in the department share skin MDT duties on a rotational basis as per set by the Specialty Lead in the weekly rota. **Workday on Friday ends at 1600 if rotated to present at the Friday skin MDT which starts at 0800. The Foundation Trust is keen to support newly appointed consultants and the appointee is encouraged to have a mentor. A number of senior colleagues are available for this purpose and the clinical lead will facilitate this once the appointee takes up the post.
Programmed Activities Number Direct clinical care 8.875 Predictable on-call work Unpredictable on call work Supporting professional activities 1.125 TOTAL PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES 10 An additional 1.0 PA will be available if successful candidates are available to perform additional clinical activity

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