Locum Consultant Histopathologist - Lymphoma, Gynae, Gastro diagnostic

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Department of Histopathology is looking for a locum Consultant to join their team for a period of 12 months. The role is for 10 Programmed Activities (PA’s) and we welcome applications from a Locum Consultant Histopathologist with expertise in Lymphoma (solid tissue only), gynaecological pathology along with skin and GI (desirable –familiarity with pseudomyxoma peritonei) pathology. The successful candidate will also contribute to specimen dissection.
The medical establishment is made up of 10 consultant Histopathologists, with junior support from the deanery rotation and an international clinical fellowship post.
The appointee will be based at The Christie and together with colleagues already in post and will provide input to lymphoma, gynaecological and gastro-intestinal histopathology team to meet the needs of the service. The successful applicant will share the diagnostic workload with the other consultant histopathologists and give input into the relevant multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs).
The Department of Histopathology/ GM-HCDP service (Lymphoma) provides diagnostic tumour pathology services to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust for biopsies and surgical specimens from the theatres, wards and out-patients in the hospital and pathological material for review from other hospitals in the North West for cancer patients referred to the clinical, surgical and medical oncologists.
Consultation is also provided on problematic cases, referred by other histopathologists within, and occasionally outside, the region.
There is no on-call rota or requirement for weekend work.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

JOB PURPOSE

This is a locum consultant post based at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Appointment of the post holder will enable the activities of the department to be maintained and meet the clinical needs of the hospital.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The medical establishment is made up of 10 Consultant Histopathologists, with junior support from the deanery rotation and clinical fellow post.
The appointee will be based at The Christie and together with colleagues already in post will provide senior input to all Lymphoma, Gynecological histopathology work to meet the needs of the service. The successful applicant will share the workload for Skin with the other consultant histopathologists and give input into the relevant multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs). An ability to provide some support to the GI histopathology team (desirable - familiarity with reporting pseudomyxoma peritonei pathology) is also required.
The appointee will have office accommodation and access to a secretarial service at the Christie.
Diagnostic histopathology
The Department of Histopathology provides diagnostic tumour pathology services to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust:
a) pathological material for review from other hospitals in the North West for cancer patients referred to the clinical, surgical and medical oncologists. The GM-HCDP service (Lymphoma) similarly receives diagnostic case material from within GM Trust and in-house generated samples. Further onboarding of external GM Trusts is planned. Clinical reporting includes use of both local LIMS (TDHC) and HODS regional LIMS haemato-pathology platform (note - all neoplastic myeloid pathology/ flow-cytometry is reported elsewhere [MFT- lead providers GM-HCDP] and participation in reporting of these samples would therefore not be required). The GI pathology service also receives specimens from the national specialist pseudomyxoma peritonei service at the Christie.
b) biopsies and surgical specimens from the theatres, wards and out-patients in the hospital
c) pathological material for review from other hospitals in the North West for cancer patients referred to the clinical, surgical and medical oncologists.
Consultation is also provided on problematic cases, referred by other histopathologists within, and occasionally outside, the region.
There is no on-call rota or requirement for weekend work.
The Histopathology service is managed in accordance with the Strategic Review of Pathology Services, notably in relation to paragraphs 4.22 – 4.26.