Applications are invited from Consultant Cellular Pathologists to join the Pathology Services team based at the main Hospital site on the beautiful Island of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Guernsey has a population of 65,000 and benefits from a flat 20% tax rate, no VAT or Council tax. It has some of the British Isles finest and best‑kept beaches, an especially mild and sunny climate, and an off‑beat, historic harbour town in St. Peter’s Port, the island’s capital.
This a newly‑created role due to an increased workload within histopathology and cancer multidisciplinary team workloads. This is a full‑time post, and the successful candidate will work alongside the current Pathologist who reports in a general capacity. You will need to have an interest in two‑three disciplines, urology and skin or GIT and breast is desirable but other combinations are welcome also. Part of the role will be supporting Biomedical Scientists in achieving the IBMS Diploma in Expert Practice in Histological Dissection.
The Department processes approximately 5,000 requests a year for primary and secondary care and visiting clinicians. Skin specimens are the largest group type followed by gastrointestinal, gynaecology, urological and breast specimens. Large specimens are from the following surgical procedures: laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, breast surgery, upper and lower GI surgery (oesophagectomy, gastrectomy and colectomy), hysterectomy, orchidectomy, nephrectomy, thyroidectomy, laryngectomy and cervical lymph node dissection for head and neck cancers.
Team Composition
- Consultant Cellular Pathologists (x2)
- Biomedical Scientists Section Head (1)
- Biomedical Scientists (x3)
- Trainee Biomedical Scientist (1)
- Health Care Scientific Assistant / Anatomical Pathology Assistant (1)
- Administration staff (x2)
The overall Pathology Department employs 50 staff across five disciplines processing 160,000 requests a year.
Role Requirements
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise.
- FRCPath Diploma or equivalent qualification.
- If you are newly qualified, and UK trained, you must be a holder of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. All other applicants will be required to show evidence of equivalency to the UK CCT / of the UK CCT.
Benefits
- A higher‑than‑UK salary.
- A relocation payment of 5,000*
- A generous four‑year private rental allowance to support the cost of private rental accommodation*
- A continental lifestyle, where the people are friendly, and crime is very low.
- *Full T&C in relocation directive
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