Acting Pathway Manager with Specialist Responsibility - Cytology

Acting Pathway Manager with Specialist Responsibility - Cytology

The East of England Cervical Screening Service at Norfolk & Norwich Hospitals Trust are seeking someone with ambition who has excellent microscopy skills and ready to progress through the ASD screening qualification to become a qualified Consultant Biomedical Scientist. The laboratory processes over 400,000 cervical screening samples per year and is due to commence self testing. The department is forward thinking and keen to develop a strong workforce ready for future challenges.

Main duties of the job

Training Consultant BMS in cervical cytology (development post)

The successful applicant will be primarily involved in day to day screening and checking and supporting the senior team in cervical cytology and specialist responsibility. You will also work with the Clinical Lead and team of Cons BMS who will supervise and mentor you through ASD development to support your own study and independent research.

Your knowledge and skills will be supported through double reporting; reviewing slides for MDT cases; introduction to histology terminology, reporting and morphology; monthly attendance at a regional colp MDT meetings; liaising with CSPL for InCa audit reviews and coordinating reviews; and delivering in house training presentations to the screening team per year.

Acting Pathway Manager in Cervical Cytology

The East of England area is comprised of 6 STP regions each requiring a coordinated and efficient network of sample transport links from primary care to pathology reception services, IT connectivity, and direct referrals to 18 regional colposcopy units and a robust cytology failsafe of all patient referrals and outcomes.

The position will be based at the Cotman Centre, which is set within the Norwich Research Park adjacent to the UEA campus.

Job responsibilities

The Pathway Manager is the point of focus for communication between the Norfolk & Waveney cervical screening service and the service users across the STP region. This includes NHS England & NHS Improvement Screening & Imms Team, SQAS Team, Cancer Registry, regional STP NHS Trusts, GP surgeries & community clinics, iCaSH sexual health clinics, HM military & HM Prison institutions. The role is to ensure that professional, well managed & coordinated arrangements are in place for meeting national requirements applicable to those parts of the cervical screening programme.

To support you in the Acting Pathway Manager role you will have a nominated Consultant BMS to mentor and support and will be required to prepare cytology updates and represent the department at Regional Programme Boards and NHS Trust business meetings. You will be the laboratory point of contact for SIAFs relating to your screening region.

• Responsible for the management of a complex workload of cytology.
• Participation in primary screening, rapid review, checking and reporting of all grades of cervical cytology samples, giving appropriate management recommendations.
• Participation in the colposcopy Multidisciplinary Team Meetings (Colp MDTs) for the relevant STP region. Communication with clinicians and colposcopists ensuring correct patient management is provided based on cytological findings. Arrange Consultant BMS cover during planned leave.
• Promotes and demonstrates best practice within cervical cytology. This requires demonstration of clear scientific and clinical reasoning at an advanced level.
• Coordinates and undertakes the processing of LBC gynaecological cytology specimens.
• Ensures that the ethical and moral dimensions of practice are followed.
• Maintains personal professional and technical competence and awareness by mandatory CPD in accordance with the continuing registration requirements of the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Participates in national proficiency testing to demonstrate maintenance of screening competence.
• Maintains personal and departmental professional standards as required by the Trust, by the HCPC, Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) and the Royal Colleges.
• Provides technical specialist information, often of a complex nature, to service users and within protocols advice of a limited clinical nature including the requirement for further investigations.

Person Specification Qualifications

• HCPC State registration
• IBMS/RCPath Advanced Specialist Diploma in Cervical Cytology.

Experience

• Extensive experience in a senior position in cytology at a senior grade, working in a field of practice relevant to the cervical screening programme.

Skills

• In-depth knowledge of the quality requirements pertaining to Cytology Laboratories, Colposcopy Clinics and the NHSCSP.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills
• Enthusiastic, positive and highly motivated. Able to relate well to all levels of personnel.
• Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
• Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Cotman Centre, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital