• Job Description

  Req#: C9180-25-0183?language=en&page=372&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Histopathology Department in the role of a Histopathology Digital Pathology and automation lead. The department will be moving to a new facility and undergoing transformational changes.

  The new Discovery Drive laboratory will introduce new ways of working and change how Histopathology services are delivered within the hospital and across the wider healthcare environment. This will include new estate, new technology, IT, improved information and performance management systems, new functions. The post holder will work across all workstreams in support of external experts to design and prepare for these new and improved process to be incorporated into Histopathology's future way of working. Ensuring that all service improvements and process improvements are able to meet the highest quality and accreditation standards will fall within the scope of this role's responsibility.

  You will have extensive experience within Histopathology and leading on projects including implementation of Digital pathology and new technologies within Histopathology to provide an efficient and effect service to the patients.

  As a strong team player, you will also possess excellent communication skills and must be able to take responsibility for day-to-day planning and prioritisation of workload. A strong commitment to personal and professional development and teamwork are all essential for this post.

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will coordinate and manage all aspects of the local delivery of Digital Pathology and automation projects in CUH Histopathology, working with laboratory, procurement, IT, and business management as it moves to a new Facility at Discovery drive.

  They will be in charge in delivering digital pathology and automation projects for the development of Histopathology service, as well as maintaining and leading on automation pathways within the CUH Histopathology department.

  They will be responsible in leading on maintaining new technologies and IT/ LIMS interface in collaboration with the Histopathology team, IT and EPIC beaker at CUH.

  The delivery of these projects will involve a wide range of stakeholders including senior directors and managers, pathology clinicians and scientists, and IT / technical experts internal and external to CUH. Excellent interpersonal skills, strong planning, the capacity to challenge, and the ability to establish strong and effective working relationships at all levels will therefore be fundamental to a successful outcome. The post-holder will need high levels of self-motivation, tenacity and resilience, and should be experienced in the application of structured programme management processes and interventions.

  About us

  Our Trust

  Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

  CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

  Date posted

  07 February 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £53,755 to £60,504 a year pa pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  180-B-255072

  Job locations

  Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B

  Hills Road

  Cambridge

  CB2 0QQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

  Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

  This vacancy will close at midnight on 12th February 2025

  Interviews are due to be held on 24th February 2025

  Benefits to you

  At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

  On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

  CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

  Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

  We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

  Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

  This vacancy will close at midnight on 12th February 2025

  Interviews are due to be held on 24th February 2025

  Benefits to you

  At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

  On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

  CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

  Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

  We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree level education or equivalent experience
  • HCPC registration as Biomedical Scientist/ Clinical Scientist
  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE1, Agile or equivalent experience

  Desirable

  • MBA or equivalent
  • Additional post graduate qualifications
  • Any NHS accredited leadership training or development programme

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in leading or managing the delivery of large, complex, long term (3yrs +) corporate projects that have strategic implications.
  • Extensive specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management.
  • Specialist knowledge of change management or organisational development.
  • Specialist knowledge of problem solving tools, techniques and approaches applied in a multi-disciplinary and cross-organisational environment.
  • Experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload, both personal and that of a team.
  • Experience of managing staff and delivering a work programme to time and budget.
  • Experience in building and maintaining working relationships at a senior level.
  • Experience in holding and monitoring budgets and undertaking audits of activity or developing long term business plans and forecasting.
  • Experience in working in a Histopathology laboratory
  • Experience with implementation of digital pathology and histopathology automation

  Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS, and in particular the acute hospital environment, either in a clinical or non-clinical setting.
  • Demonstrable experience in a health or care based environment.
  • Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent knowledge of acute provider clinical operations
  • Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
  • Ability to interpret national guidance and disseminate/assess impact to the programme and team
  • Ability to implement local polices to improve project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
  • Knowledge of digitisation of Histopathology and new technology and innovation

  Desirable

  • Understanding of programmes of work that are complex or involve transformational change-based programmes across health economies
  • Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue & cost models) and business case processes

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to communicate highly complex business information to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
  • Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions.
  • Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
  • Change management, improvement methodologies or organisational development skills
  • Ability to influence senior clinicians and managers
  • Highly customer focussed with good attention to detail
  • Highly numerate, pragmatic and solution-oriented
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
  • Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
  • Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
  • Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
  • Ability to move between big picture and detail
  • Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc.) to analyse and present information
  • Excellent research and analytical skills

  Desirable

  • Data analysis
  • Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
  • Developing business cases and contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
  • Undertaking research related to policy

  Additonal Requirements

  Essential

  • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues, according to the Trust values of Together - safe, kind, excellent

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree level education or equivalent experience
  • HCPC registration as Biomedical Scientist/ Clinical Scientist
  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE1, Agile or equivalent experience

  Desirable

  • MBA or equivalent
  • Additional post graduate qualifications
  • Any NHS accredited leadership training or development programme

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in leading or managing the delivery of large, complex, long term (3yrs +) corporate projects that have strategic implications.
  • Extensive specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management.
  • Specialist knowledge of change management or organisational development.
  • Specialist knowledge of problem solving tools, techniques and approaches applied in a multi-disciplinary and cross-organisational environment.
  • Experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload, both personal and that of a team.
  • Experience of managing staff and delivering a work programme to time and budget.
  • Experience in building and maintaining working relationships at a senior level.
  • Experience in holding and monitoring budgets and undertaking audits of activity or developing long term business plans and forecasting.
  • Experience in working in a Histopathology laboratory
  • Experience with implementation of digital pathology and histopathology automation

  Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS, and in particular the acute hospital environment, either in a clinical or non-clinical setting.
  • Demonstrable experience in a health or care based environment.
  • Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent knowledge of acute provider clinical operations
  • Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
  • Ability to interpret national guidance and disseminate/assess impact to the programme and team
  • Ability to implement local polices to improve project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
  • Knowledge of digitisation of Histopathology and new technology and innovation

  Desirable

  • Understanding of programmes of work that are complex or involve transformational change-based programmes across health economies
  • Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue & cost models) and business case processes

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to communicate highly complex business information to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
  • Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions.
  • Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
  • Change management, improvement methodologies or organisational development skills
  • Ability to influence senior clinicians and managers
  • Highly customer focussed with good attention to detail
  • Highly numerate, pragmatic and solution-oriented
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
  • Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
  • Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
  • Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
  • Ability to move between big picture and detail
  • Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc.) to analyse and present information
  • Excellent research and analytical skills

  Desirable

  • Data analysis
  • Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
  • Developing business cases and contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
  • Undertaking research related to policy

  Additonal Requirements

  Essential

  • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues, according to the Trust values of Together - safe, kind, excellent

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B

  Hills Road

  Cambridge

  CB2 0QQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B

  Hills Road

  Cambridge

  CB2 0QQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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