Job summary
- Main area
- Histopathology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Hours
- 10 sessions per week (Full-time (10PA) or part-time (8PA))
- Job ref
- 196-CON1092
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 p.a excl. London Zone (Pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Cellular Pathologist interest in Lung & Haematopathology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Department of Cellular Pathology is seeking a full-time (10 PA) or part-time (8 PA) consultant to join a dynamic and supportive team of colleagues. The post holder must have a demonstrable major interest in lung pathology and haematopathology with a current diagnostic haematopathology and lung pathology practice. The department is involved in many exciting initiatives, and we are looking for an individual with appropriate skills to complement the teams and keep the service at the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.
Main place of employment:
This post will include working at both Guy’s and St Thomas’ sites as well as the new Synnovis Blackfriars Hub Laboratory (located near Southwark tube station).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Lead in Cellular Pathology.
Specialist Interest
The Department operates a system of specialist reporting, each consultant having one or more special interests, which facilitates dealing with difficult cases and enhances patient care in accordance with Calman-Hine recommendations.
The specialist interests of this post are lung pathology and haematopathology (including a component of cytology reporting directly related to both specialities). Lung pathology will form the main workload (4.5-5 PAs) with haematopathology comprising the minor component (3.5-4 PAs).
Please refer to full job description for more details
Working for our organisation
Cellular Pathology Department
The Department of Cellular Pathology provides services to Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, local general practitioners in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Strategic Health Authority and local Coroners. It is a major cancer and infection referral centre. The main Cellular Pathology Department is located at St Thomas’ Hospital, 2nd Floor North Wing, with cut-up located at the Hub laboratory.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Lung pathology:
The successful candidate will be joining an existing team of 4 substantive lung consultants and 2 locums. The current lung consultants also have other speciality interests.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is a specialised thoracic tertiary referral centre and receives referrals from the South East London network and wider, including Canterbury and Reading. The histopathology service is currently provided by a team of 3 consultants. There are 6 thoracic surgeons based at Guy’s Hospital, making it one of the largest centres in the UK, covering 17 referring hospitals and 14 MDMs. There were over 1400 operative resections in 2024 and frozen sections are relatively frequent. There is an expanding navigational bronchoscopy service of approximately 30 cases per month with plans to expand to 500 per year by the end of 2025. We receive a wide variety of surgical specimens from biopsies to lobectomies and pneumonectomies and well as thymectomies and decortications. There is one MDM a week (Friday 8 am).
We routinely do molecular analysis on our tumours which we integrate into our reports. We provide thoracic tissue for a bank which provides material for research and is of great value to the Academic Health Science Centre and the Biomedical Research Centre. All the clinicians are keen on research and running trials so there is ample opportunity for participation in this.
We are committed to teaching postgraduate students as well as being involved in the university teaching of undergraduate students.
Haematopathology:
The successful candidate will join an established team of four substantive haematopathology consultants, each of whom also holds additional specialist interests.
The haematopathology service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive diagnostic services for the local population, including haematopathology reporting for Greenwich and Lewisham NHS Foundation Trust. The service also functions as a tertiary referral centre for myeloproliferative neoplasms, systemic mastocytosis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. Non-cutaneous tissue reporting is carried out by the haematopathologists, while dermatopathologists report on cutaneous samples.
In addition to histopathology, there will be a component of reporting of cytology specimens directly related to haematopathology, including fine needle aspirates and EBUS-TBNA samples. The post will involve integration of molecular and cytogenetic investigations, as well as complete integration with respect to bone marrow reporting. There may also be future opportunities to participate in the flow cytometry reporting rota.
The department receives approximately 2,000 haematopathology cases annually, with over 50% comprising bone marrow trephine biopsies. Four multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs) are held each week, including a joint myeloid MDM with King’s College Hospital. GSTT also hosts the supra-regional MDM for cutaneous lymphomas, in collaboration with the renowned St John’s Cutaneous Lymphoma Service.
We hold twice-weekly haematopathology consensus meetings and are actively involved in the training of both histopathology and haematology trainees. The team maintains a strong record of participation in national and international conferences and haematopathology workshops.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
- MRCP or show evidence of equivalent qualification
- FRCPath or show evidence of equivalent qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
- PhD or other Higher Postgraduate degree in Medicine or Science
- Any additional medical or sub-speciality qualifications either national or international.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in lung histopathology and haematopathology
- Proven record of experience as a trainee in histopathology and cytopathology.
- Continuing and recent diagnostic practice experience in haematopathology as a major specialist interest
- Continuing and recent diagnostic practice experience in lung pathology as a major specialist interest
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Familiarity with modern morphological and molecular diagnostic techniques
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical guideline development.
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical governance, audit clinical risk management, and IT skills.
- Understanding of principles of audit.
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management.
Desirable criteria
- Management training or qualification.
- Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services.
Research, Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research.
- Evidence of original research.
- Ability to supervise junior staff in diagnostic work.
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
Desirable criteria
- Appraisal training.
- Teaching qualification.
- Evidence of original research and publication in haematopathology & lung pathology.
Leadership/Management skills
Essential criteria
- Communication; Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
- Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
- Finance; Knowledge of finance and budgets.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in management positions, e.g. speciality lead, clinical lead, clinical director.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma McLean
- Job title
- Consultant Histopathologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 2925
- Additional information
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Dr Emma McLean, Consultant Histopathologist, [email protected]. or Dr Ashish Chandra, Consultant Histopathologist, [email protected].
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