Consultant Histopathologist
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
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| Salary: | £113,565 to £150,569 a year |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Worcester, WR5 1DD |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 4 Sept 2026 |
| Closing date: | 27 Sept 2026 |
Summary
This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements. A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners. The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course. The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care. The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings. The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trust's and departmental objectives. The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post. The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team. The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews. A formal job plan will be agreed between the post-holder and their Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, three months after the start date of the post. The job plan for the first three months will be based on the provisional timetable shown below. The Job Plan is subject to annual review and will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant's duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year, covering all aspects of professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide an agreed schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support if any required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives. Provisional Assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan: For a full time contract Direct Clinical Care: 8 PA's on average per week (includes clinical activity, clinically related activity, predictable & unpredictable emergency work) Cross-site travel and clinical administration time is included in each session of DCC Supporting Professional Activities: 2 SPAs per week to support your personal CPD and revalidation related activities. Additional PA allocations are provided for leadership roles, educational supervision (0.25 PA per trainee), appraiser role (0.25 PA for trained appraisers) or other pre-agreed additional activities.