Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Applications are invited for this 10 PA fixed term post of a Consultant Histopathologist at Kingston Hospital which is a replacement post. The applicant will join an existing team of eight Consultants in this busy DGH Department providing a wide range of diagnostic services within the Hospital and to local GPs.

Workload activity is approximately 31,000 surgical specimens and 1,750 Diagnostic Cytology specimens per annum.T

he Department provides a wide range of cancer unit specialities including Breast, Haematopathology, Upper/Lower GI, Thyroid, Dermatology, Urology, Gynaecology and Respiratory. There is partial sub-specialisation with the lead for each discipline reporting the majority of those cases and this is supported by well-motivated BMS staff and administrative staff. The post-holder will be expected to have a wide experience of most sub-specialised areas and be prepared to participate in the reporting of all cases as necessary.  Very few Hospital autopsies are performed and the local Coronial work is carried out by external Pathologists. The unit is UKAS/ISO accredited.

 The Department fosters a team approach to service provision which is Patient centred with Cellular Pathology well represented in all Local MDTs and their management groups.

Main duties of the job

The Pathology department’s ethos is to provide a flexible, responsive and high-quality service which is a valued and integral part of each relevant patient pathway across the Trust. This is achieved through a well-developed team approach to providing the best possible service for our users and patients. The service aims to raise its profile to ensure that it features in the development plans of each of the service lines it supports, providing a more holistic approach to the patient pathway.

Cellular Pathology is situated on level 2 of Esher wing in a purpose-built Laboratory. The department of Cellular Pathology at Kingston Hospital has maintained full accreditation UKAS ISO 15189:2012 accreditation since 2015. All consultant offices are peripherally located with natural daylight and include a suitable diagnostic microscope with IT terminals.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust is a thriving hospital, located close to Richmond Park, Kingston town centre and central London and is readily accessible by public transport. Our Acute Assessment Unit is comprised of 50 assessment beds and is developing a Same Day Emergency Care Unit for our Acute Emergency Care outpatients and day cases. This unit is fed directly by GP referrals and also from our Emergency Department which is a Trauma Centre seeing over 100,000 attendances per year. There are 350 acute adult inpatient beds and a 12 bedded ITU.