Advanced Clinical Fellow Cellular Pathology for Portfolio Pathway
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Ebrill 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £71018 minimum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Mai 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP |
| Cwmni: | Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7846655/225-BCPS-7846655 |
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A Vacancy at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
Successful appointees will be encouraged and supported in achieving the competencies required for a Portfolio Pathway application in Histopathology, thereby entering the Specialty Register and eventually taking up a consultant position.
The job will consist of work in BCPS Cellular Pathology Department. Cellular Pathology is now fully consolidated and located in a purpose-built integrated Pathology Building located on the New Cross Hospital site and our services provide patient care to Walsall NHS Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Dudley Group Foundation Trust, and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Our annual workload this year is 100,000 histology requests with around 154,000 histology specimens, supporting 59 MDTs across the region. The annual workload for the gynae cytology screening work for the West Midlands is approximately 400,000 samples. In addition, there are 4,000 non-gynae cytology samples.
The current clinical establishment comprises 31 Consultant Histopathologists 4 locum consultants and one Consultant Healthcare Scientists one Specialty Doctor, and 10 Histopathology Trainees. The clinical workforce is fully sub-specialised with each Consultant Histopathologists providing specialist expertise in one to four individual specialties, depending upon individual interest and workload.
he successful candidate will also be encouraged to develop specialist interests in two or more areas of histopathology. Portfolio Pathway fellows will be treated as equivalents to core and specialist trainees in Histopathology
The specialties of interest would be as follows
• Gynae
• Skin
• Heampath
• Lung
• Respiratory
• Non Gynae Cytology
• Urology and Renal
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Successful candidate will be actively encouraged to participate in ongoing research activities within the department.
• The holder is expected to be flexible in order to take full advantage of the post.
• The post is designed to facilitate the incumbent to apply for Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR).
• In conjunction with colleagues, to play a full part in the rota for the department.
• To provide cover for colleagues in respect of periods of leave.
• In conjunction with colleagues, to take part in medical audit and research as appropriate.
• In conjunction with colleagues, to ensure that the requirements of clinical governance are met.
• To ensure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of patients
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026
Successful appointees will be encouraged and supported in achieving the competencies required for a Portfolio Pathway application in Histopathology, thereby entering the Specialty Register and eventually taking up a consultant position.
The job will consist of work in BCPS Cellular Pathology Department. Cellular Pathology is now fully consolidated and located in a purpose-built integrated Pathology Building located on the New Cross Hospital site and our services provide patient care to Walsall NHS Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Dudley Group Foundation Trust, and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Our annual workload this year is 100,000 histology requests with around 154,000 histology specimens, supporting 59 MDTs across the region. The annual workload for the gynae cytology screening work for the West Midlands is approximately 400,000 samples. In addition, there are 4,000 non-gynae cytology samples.
The current clinical establishment comprises 31 Consultant Histopathologists 4 locum consultants and one Consultant Healthcare Scientists one Specialty Doctor, and 10 Histopathology Trainees. The clinical workforce is fully sub-specialised with each Consultant Histopathologists providing specialist expertise in one to four individual specialties, depending upon individual interest and workload.
he successful candidate will also be encouraged to develop specialist interests in two or more areas of histopathology. Portfolio Pathway fellows will be treated as equivalents to core and specialist trainees in Histopathology
The specialties of interest would be as follows
• Gynae
• Skin
• Heampath
• Lung
• Respiratory
• Non Gynae Cytology
• Urology and Renal
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Successful candidate will be actively encouraged to participate in ongoing research activities within the department.
• The holder is expected to be flexible in order to take full advantage of the post.
• The post is designed to facilitate the incumbent to apply for Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR).
• In conjunction with colleagues, to play a full part in the rota for the department.
• To provide cover for colleagues in respect of periods of leave.
• In conjunction with colleagues, to take part in medical audit and research as appropriate.
• In conjunction with colleagues, to ensure that the requirements of clinical governance are met.
• To ensure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of patients
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026