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Candidate Information Pack Job Title: Consultant Cellular Pathologist Reference Number: 216-9664-PATH Closing Date: as specified on NHS Jobs Dear candidate, Thank you for your interest in this post and for taking the time to read through our information pack and advert. If you have any remaining questions, please do get in touch with us. This is an exciting opportunity to work in the largest hospital trust in the South West Peninsula. We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the Peninsula Medical School and are rapidly developing as a centre for innovation and research. We employ 6400 staff, have more than 900 beds, and over 48,000 people pass through the main entrance of our hospital in a week. In addition, we have an integrated Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit, which has a staff of approximately 250 military personnel. Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City, occupies a stunning location. It’s a perfect city for ambitious people looking to build a career, and enjoy a rich and rewarding life. Please follow the link below to read through Plymouth’s Book of Wonder and find out more: http://www.visitplymouth.co.uk/ Everything we do is guided by our core values: Put Patients First Take Ownership Respect Others Be Positive Listening, Learning, Improving We very much look forward to receiving your application and will be in touch via NHS Jobs if you have been shortlisted for interview. If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then please note you have not been successful on this occasion. If you have a disability, the Trust is committed to offering reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment. Please contact the Medical Workforce Team on 01752 437219 if you require any further information. I wish you all the best with your application. With Kind regards Ann James Chief Executive VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS – ‘The Plymouth Way’ All our staff are required to uphold and model the Trust values that underpin everything we do. Values and behaviours are the life blood of our organisation and they should be visible in all aspects of our work: Trust Values Expected Behaviours Know how your work contributes to patient care. Consider the impact on patients when making Putting Patients decisions. First Imagine you are the patient and always offer to help. Be brave – do what is right and what may be difficult rather than taking the easy option. Be brave – do what is right and what may be difficult rather than taking the easy option. Taking Ownership If you see something that is wrong, do something about it or tell someone who can. Don’t lose a good idea – if you can do it – do it. If you can’t, share it with someone who can. Share good practice – learn from your own mistakes and those made by others. Don’t accept poor practice and behaviour all your colleagues Appreciate and value the contribution of. Be fair and consistent. Consider the impact of what you do on others. Support and respect the people – challenge the Respecting Others process. Listen and understand – as if you don’t know. Be open to constructive feedback. Let others know when they are doing something well. Being Positive Share your successes. Be an ambassador for the Trust and its patients. A positive attitude is contagious and will help others. Listening, Take every opportunity to learn from things that go wrong. Learning & Encourage the team to share good practice. Improving Try to listen more than you speak. Put the patient at the heart of every decision. About the Trust Who we Care for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is the largest hospital in the south west peninsula, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare. Our geography gives us a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy. The ageing population is a recognised national trend, and is further exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in. The proportion of our population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years, giving Plymouth the opportunity to innovate on behalf of the nation in services for the elderly. We work within a network of other hospitals to offer a range of specialist services: Bone marrow transplant Kidney transplant Pancreatic cancer surgery Neurosurgery Cardiothoracic surgery Upper Gastro-intestinal surgery Hepatobiliary surgery Neonatal intensive care and high risk obstetrics Plastic surgery Liver transplant evaluation Stereotactic radiosurgery A Specialist Teaching Hospital We provide comprehensive training and education for a wide range of healthcare professionals. The Trust works in partnership with both Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD) and the University of Exeter Medical School. We also support the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter in the delivery of courses for the Faculty of Health and Social Work. With university campuses in Plymouth, Exeter, Truro and Taunton, along with teaching facilities in Bristol, the Faculty of Health and Social Work is one of the largest providers of nursing, midwifery, social work and health professional education and training in the South West. Our Hospitals and Centres We provide services for patients at the following main sites as well as through clinics at other local hospitals and care centres. Derriford Hospital We offer the widest range of hospital based services in the Peninsula. What sets our Trust apart from the majority of acute hospital trusts is both the scope and scale of the services we offer on one site. The Royal Eye Infirmary is now based at Derriford Hospital. Child Development Centre Developmental services for young children are provided at the Child Development Centre, Scott Business Park. The Plymouth Dialysis Unit Patients needing treatment for renal failure are cared for in state-of-the-art, purpose-built facilities that they helped design. The unit is based in Eaton Business Park. Radiology Academy The Plymouth Radiology Academy is the only purpose-built Radiology Academy in the world and provides an inspirational environment in which to train and work in radiology. Working Hand in Hand with the Military We have a longstanding and excellent relationship with the Ministry of Defence. The Trust has an integrated Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit which has a staff of approximately 250 military personnel who work within a variety of posts including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and trainee medical assistants. Our military colleagues are fully integrated within the hospital workplace, working and training alongside their NHS counterparts, treating the local community, whilst proudly wearing their service uniforms and contributing to high standard of patient care. Our military partners are vital for the skills, both clinical and non- clinical and for the capacity they help us provide. Our Trust’s services benefit greatly from the skills of military clinicians, particularly in Trauma & Orthopaedics, Radiology and the Emergency Department. Many of them bring unique experiences and knowledge from their deployments and this, in turn, benefits Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and our patients. Our Values The values defining the way we do things are: Putting patients first Taking ownership Respecting others Being positive Listening, learning and improving Our Promises The promises to patients that every member of staff makes: I will... care for you compassionately and respectfully I will... give you clear information and involve you in your care I will... give you the best treatment I can when you need it I will... make sure you are treated in a clean and safe environment Building an International Reputation for Research and Development Plymouth’s clinical research continues to have an excellent reputation locally, nationally and is building internationally. We were identified as the second highest “Large Trust” recruiter to NIHR portfolio trials in the Guardian Trust research activity league tables 2013, reflecting our 591 active studies, of which 232 are currently recruiting, with 141 of these having opened in 2013/14. In excess of 4,600 patients were recruited to clinical trials during 2013/14 and we remain the highest recruiter to interventional trials in the south west peninsula. Our delivery is supported by more than £2m funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) which is used to support research staff, facilities and training to provide the capacity to underpin and grow research. The growth of our clinical trials and research has been significant over the past five years, with aspirations to further increase the number of patients recruited to trials by 50% over the next five years and, in future, to be able to offer all patients the opportunity to take part in a research project. The research environment continues to change and, in line with the Department of Health’s Corporate Plan for 2013/14, there is the drive for people to live better and for longer. This mantra can only be delivered through research, with one of the key areas for improvement being the treatment and care of people with dementia. Dementia research is a key area for growth at Plymouth Hospitals, in support of the Government remit for the UK to improve ‘treatment and care of people with dementia, to be among the best in Europe through early diagnosis, better research and better support’. Plymouth is amongst one of the few south west centres successfully delivering research projects and a growing portfolio, for patients with Alzheimer’s, supporting the area’s older stable population.