Locum Consultant Histopathologist

The appointee will be expected to fulfil the Royal College of Surgeons recommendations for CME/CPD as a minimum. Study leave is available in accordance with Trust policy. There is a Postgraduate Centre and well-equipped Library facilities at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital which link to the UCL services. There are regular Audit meetings and a full programme of teaching for trainees. The appointee will commit to appraisal and revalidation and use the Trust revalidation software. The Trust will support the appointee in the appraisal and revalidation process. The postholder will be expected to provide professional supervision and management of doctors in training and laboratory staff and undertake some clinical teaching for medical students during their attachment to the department (a responsibility shared with the other consultants). The postholder will be expected to act as educational supervisor for training and non-training grade doctors working with them. This includes day-to-day
supervision and teaching as well as active participation in objective setting, appraisal and assessment of junior medical staff. This may involve educational supervision training and support. Consultants are encouraged to participate in delivering the range of courses for training grade doctors and for general practitioners, which are run in the Trust Postgraduate Centres and by the Deanery for pathologists