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RECRUITMENT INFORMATION PACK FOR THE POST OF CONSULTANT HISTOPATHOLOGIST DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY PATHOLOGY SERVICE AIREDALE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Page 1 of 29 SECTION 1 The Post and Job Description JOB TITLE: Consultant Histopathologist DEPARTMENT: Histopathology MANAGERIALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO: Chief Executive via Clinical Director DIRECTORATE: Integrated care PROFESSIONALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO: Medical Director via Clinical Director BACKGROUND TO THE POST This post is a full time (10 programmed activity) appointment as Consultant Histopathologist to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, with all programmed activities currently based at Airedale General Hospital. The post is a replacement resulting from the retirement of the current postholder. The appointee will be part of a team of five Consultant Histopathologists. The Department of Histopathology receives a wide range of histopathological and cytology specimens from within the Trust, from General Practitioners, other community based sites and from the Bradford & Airedale Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. There is no cervical cytology. The undertaking of post-mortems is not a requirement of the post. A new collaboration between Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust delivers laboratory aspects of the pathology service to both Trusts. Consultant staff continue to be employed by their respective Trust, however will contribute to the management and delivery of the Integrated Pathology Service. The appointee will be expected to be able to deliver all aspects of the general histopathology service at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and, in due course, may be able to develop a subspecialisation as the collaboration with Bradford Hospitals develops. We welcome applications from both general histopathologists and those who have already developed a subspecialised interest. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such an applicant is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues. AIREDALE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning integrated Trust (consistently in the top 10 nationally for quality of care), set in a beautiful location extending from the Pennines in the south, to the upland hills and valleys of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the north, providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance. We provide high quality, personalised, acute, elective, specialist and community care for a population of over 250,000 people across West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire in an area extending from the fringes of north Bradford to parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Our main hospital, which is Airedale General Hospital, is situated in the countryside between Skipton and Keighley. We also provide services from community hospitals Coronation Hospital in Ilkley and Skipton Hospital – as well as local health centres and General Practices (GPs). Airedale General Hospital is on good rail and road links to major cities and the Lake District. The main road links are with the M1 at Leeds (25 miles), the M62 at Bradford (15 miles) and the M6 at Preston (25 miles). In addition to Leeds, Bradford and Manchester, there are good shopping centres and cultural facilities at Ilkley (7 miles), Skipton (5 miles) and Harrogate (20 miles). The Page 2 of 29 centres of population are the towns of Keighley, Ilkley and Bingley in West Yorkshire; Skipton, Settle and Grassington in North Yorkshire; and Barnoldswick, Earby and Colne in East Lancashire. There are state education facilities available at Bingley, Keighley, Skipton and Ilkley. There are excellent, high performing Grammar Schools in Skipton and independent schools at Giggleswick, Settle, Bradford, Ilkley and Leeds. If the appointee wished to reside at a distance greater than 10 miles, this should be easily agreed by discussions with the Trust. Airedale General Hospital is a District General Hospital built on a green-field site and opened in 1970. The Hospital is very well maintained and has been substantially upgraded over the past few years with a new state of the art Emergency Department being completed in December 2014. A new Endoscopy unit opened in Autumn 2013. The pathology department had a £400,000 upgrade to its facilities in 2014 and had further new laboratory space built last year as part of a £6 million Acute Medical Unit and Pathology Laboratory development. Over the past few years, we have received a number of accolades for patient safety and our quality of care and the Trust has also been named as one of the top 40 hospitals by CHKS, an independent provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement services, on six occasions. On its main site, Airedale Hospital, the Trust provides acute and outpatient services including: critical care (intensive care, high dependency and coronary care); a modern operating suite with seven main theatres with dedicated obstetric and trauma theatres and a satellite treatment suite; diagnostic imaging with computerised tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound; pathology laboratories; medical specialities including neurology and rheumatology; surgical specialities including orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology and general surgery; obstetrics and paediatrics with a special care baby unit and neonatal intensive care; cardiac catheter suite; endoscopy and colposcopy suites; diabetes centre; haematology and medical oncology day unit; dedicated day care and private wards; together with physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and speech and language therapy services. All surgical, obstetric, medical, elderly and orthopaedic wards are on the site together with a pre- admission ward. Diagnostics includes state of the art computerised tomography (CT), cardiac CT, magnetic resonance imaging, MR angiography, MR venography and ultrasound. A second CT scanner was introduced in 2010 and more ultrasound capacity is planned to support acute care. Acute and older people’s mental health services are provided on site, managed by Bradford District Care Trust (BDCT). BDCT opened a new build mental health facility on the ANHSFT campus in August 2007. Telemedicine has been a significant addition to the services provided by the Trust to patients, providing rapid access to high quality interventions and specialist advice, regardless of the patients’ location. We receive national recognition for our telehealth services and as a result are a Vanguard site for the new care models and lead on using technology for enhancing health in care homes. Our new Digital Care Hub at Airedale Hospital now provides enough space to extend and integrate services such as telemedicine to benefit more patients and care homes. With more than 20 screened workstations for nurses, it means all our digital care services can be located together. These services include the Intermediate Care Hub – which is run by social care and health care staff to provide a single point of access for professionals to refer patients into intermediate care and help get them home more quickly; the Gold Line service which provides care for residents in the last 12 months of their life; and the round-the-clock telemedicine service which is currently provided for over 300 care homes, 365 days a year throughout the country and around 100 people in their own homes. There are also separate rooms for private consultations and the telemedicine service for prisons nationwide. Latest developments Page 3 of 29 In recent years the Trust has invested significantly in its clinical services, most recently the Emergency Department. Additional investment has also been made to improve our maternity and endoscopy units and to support patients with dementia. The Emergency Department is designed to future-proof emergency care at Airedale. The department benefits from a four bed resuscitation room (one dedicated paediatric bay), 18 treatment rooms including an eye/ENT room, a paediatric HDU room, facilities for bariatric patients and patients with dementia, and internal decontamination facilities. There are separate paediatric and adult waiting areas as well as X-ray facilities and a plaster room within the department. It has Trauma Unit status within the Yorkshire Major Trauma network and due to the unique geography of the region continues to see some major trauma work. Airedale Hospital’s Emergency Department was the first in the UK to use integrated electronic records with GPs using SystmOne, allowing access to patients’ medical history, drug history and allergy status as well as records of recent consultations. The majority of our hospital wards now also use electronic prescribing, which aims to help reduce any prescribing errors and create an overall improvement in patient safety with greater efficiency for clinicians. Page 4 of 29 Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Right Care Vision We want our local community to trust us to provide Right Care, with our focus on putting patients at the heart of everything we do. We need to enable patients to be in control of their health and care and respond to their needs, aligned to their preferences. In Right Care, patients have help to navigate them through the system, which can often appear confusing and fragmented. Patients are at the centre, supported in a way that best meets their needs, enabled by technology. They are able to access compassionate, safe care that empowers