Senior Clinical Fellow in Histopathology

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The closing date is 01 March 2026

Applications are invited for the post of Senior Clinical Fellow in Histopathology to commence as soon as possible for 12 months.

This is an excellent opportunity within the Pathology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will form part of the Trust's pathology department and will be a part of a team that includes 8 consultants, one locum consultant and 3 Senior clinical fellows providing a comprehensive Cellular Pathology service. The department provides a comprehensive range of services for our resident population of approximately 600,000 residing mainly in East and North Hertfordshire and extends to the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, West Hertfordshire and Essex.

The Histopathology Service supports the various clinical specialties. These include the Breast cancer service, General Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Colo-rectal Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology & Obstetrics (including active colposcopy unit), ENT, Dermatology, Respiratory Medicine Care for the elderly medicine, Paediatrics, Rheumatology. The department also receives GP samples from east & north Hertfordshire district.

• To participate in surgical cutup, surgical reporting, cytology reporting, participating in frozen section service, thus ensuring the delivery of a high‑quality histopathology, cytopathology service.
• To advise and be available for consultation on clinical matters both generally and on an individual patient basis with clinical colleagues in the hospital, general practitioners and Trust staff.
• To participate in the department's teaching, audit, and educational activities.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

• MBBS or qualification of an equivalent level
• FRCPath Part 1

• Good range of experience in general histopathology
• Experience in Histopathology/Cytology at ST3 level or equivalent
• NHS experience

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs
• Evidences engagement with appraisal and revalidation

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice

• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust