Consultant Histopathologist: Sponsorship Available

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Histopathology Department has ISO 15189 and HTA accreditation and is based at
Worcester Royal Hospital. The consultant team consists of 7 substantive
consultants and one locum consultant with 2 vacancies. There is established
voice recognition and extended BMS role in specimen dissection including all
cancer resections. In house HER 2, DDISH reporting for breast cancer is
routinely done. The department has introduced in-house testing of MMR for
Gynecological and GI cancers. The department is advanced in moving to digital
histopathology for significant volumes of work.
The department workload is over 37,000 histology and approx. 5000
diagnostic cytology requests. The Royal College of Pathologists guidelines for
staffing and workload have been implemented for workload management within the
department. The departmental staffing
comprises 1 head BMS, 30 technical staff (including BMSs and MLAs) and 6 APT’s
and 2 mortuary assistants. The diagnostic work includes specimens from the breast, skin, urology, and gastrointestinal tract together
with gynecological, pulmonary and head & neck specimens.

AAC date is scheduled to be face to face on Tuesday 20th October 2026 – Candidates would also be expected to conduct a 5 minute presentation on the following title “Please discuss how the digital pathology and pathology networks can best be used to maximise efficiency and patients safety in Histopathology. Highlight the advantages and Disadvantages”

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will participate in the
provision of a general histopathology and diagnostic cytopathology service. The
department operates a lead pathologist model for cancer MDT meetings without
any degree of subspecialisation; however, personal interests can be
accommodated. It is anticipated the full-time job plan will contain 10
programmed activities worked flexibly by mutual agreement. These will include
8.0 PAs for direct clinical care and 2.0 SPAs for supporting professional
activities. Laboratory duties are carried out on a rota basis by agreement with
consultant colleagues. They include the provision of a comprehensive diagnostic
histopathology service for The Trust. You will be supported by strong and
experienced reporting teams. The department is involved in undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching and is proactive in developing and adopting solutions to
maintain high quality sustainable reporting including an expanding scientist
reporting strategy, automated laboratory processes and imminent adoption of
digital image reporting. The successful candidate
should have an interest in Head and neck, skin, urology, gynae/colp and lung
reporting. These specialities are those Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS
trust is most in need of currently. Most other specialties can be considered.
There is the opportunity to participate in Mohs surgery and coronial post
mortems.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC Registration with a Licence to Practise.
  • Entry on the GMC Specialist register in Pathology or expected within 6 months of interview date via CCT or European Community Rights.
  • Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent

Desirable

  • Higher Degree.

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work in a team.
  • Enquiring, critical approach to work.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, gp’s, nurses and other agencies.
  • Commitment to continuing medical education.

Desirable

  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels.

Research Experience

Essential

  • Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
  • An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative.

Desirable

  • Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years.
  • Evidence of having undertaken original research.

Experience

Essential

  • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Pathology.
  • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within Pathology.
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients .
  • Expertise in sub-specialty.

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
  • Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service.
  • Ability to organise and manage outpatients priorities.
  • Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team.
  • Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit.

Desirable

  • Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate.
  • Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making.

Teaching Experience

Essential

  • Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines.
  • Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.

Desirable

  • Ability to supervise postgraduate research.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.