Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Trainee/ qualified Advanced practitioner in Cellular Pathology
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Job Description
About the Role
The post holder will be recognized as a specialist in their field, and as such, the expert practice of the function will comprise the most significant part of their role.
Responsibilities
- Assist the Consultant Histopathologist staff in specimen dissection and ensure health and safety guidance is followed.
- Perform specimen dissection as part of the different histopathology specialty teams.
- Teach, train, organize, and supervise Biomedical Scientists and ST1 junior medical staff in appropriate dissection techniques.
- Provide support and advice to junior medical staff and trainee BMS staff in specimen dissection.
- Work under own initiative, referring to standard operating procedures and amending as required after consultation with Histopathologist and Histopathology Management Team.
- Collaborate with medical staff to develop and improve techniques in dissection.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings (MDT) meetings for educational purposes and to facilitate CPD.
- Attain appropriate knowledge, skills, and qualifications in relation to the advanced practitioner role.
- Be responsible, in consultation with the Lead Pathologist and the Laboratory Manager, for the strategic direction of the service with regards to specimen dissection, ensuring the service is developed in line with national and local policy.
- Liaise with colleagues external to the department to improve services, e.g., Bowel Cancer Screening Nurses.
- Be responsible, in consultation with the Lead Pathologist, for histology audits as required, demonstrating the quality of the histology service.
- Regularly observe specimen dissection by experienced pathologists.
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Location
Based in the North East of England, we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care center, and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
About Us
- Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
- We employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
- Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE: Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
- We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network, and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
- The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
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Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Janet Rodgers
- Job Title: Cellpath Laboratory Manager
- Email Address: janet.rodgers@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01914456572
Managerial Responsibilities
This role will also have a managerial responsibility for the management of specimen dissection and the update and monitoring of all relevant SOPs. They will be responsible for the organization of BMS staff dissection and rotation to support the service.
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