Pathology Training Manager

South of Tyne and Wear Clinical Pathology Services provide high quality diagnostic services to improve the health care of the people of South of Tyne and Wear. The service also provides bowel and cervical screening services for populations across the North East and Yorkshire.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing the workforce strategy to support the recruitment and retention of healthcare scientists and support staff across all pathology disciplines.

Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for assisting the Pathology Service Manager and Departmental Managers in ensuring that pathology maintains a sustainable workforce. They will:

• Establish, implement and monitor the training frameworks across the Pathology service.
• Be responsible for directing and coordinating all Training and Competency activities.
• Work in partnership with all senior management and clinical teams to ensure all personnel of the laboratory, either internal or external that influence laboratory activities be competent and work in accordance with the laboratories management system of recording training and development that meets as a minimum ISO 15189, MHRA, HTA, SQAS, HSE, standards and others as required.
• Work in partnership with NENC colleagues to shape and adopt a regional coordinated approach to workforce planning.
  
  

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the BAME network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our armed forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Chrystal Job title: Pathology Service Manager Email address: tracey.chrystal1@nhs.net Telephone number: 0191 4456550