Consultant Radiologist with Specialist Interest in Colorectal Imaging

Consultant Radiologist with Specialist Interest in Colorectal Imaging

Consultant

Main area : Radiology

Grade : Consultant

Contract : Permanent

40 hours per week (10 sessions per week)

Job ref : 213-MED-PRUH-6717865

Employer : King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type : NHS

Site : Princess Royal University Hospital

Town : Orpington

Salary : £105,504 - £139,882 per annum excl. London Zone Allowance.

Salary period : Yearly

Closing : 03 / 11 / 2024 23 : 59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.

7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

The Department of Clinical Radiology at the PRUH is seeking to expand their team of consultants by appointing new proactive, compassionate and committed colleagues to share in the challenge of providing patient-centred acute and specialist care.

The department offers a broad range of sub-specialist opportunities such as the ongoing development within interventional radiology as well as specialist areas within cardiothoracic, gastrointestinal and acute radiology.

The department is looking for a substantive Consultant Radiologist with an interest in Colorectal Radiology.

The post is for 10 PAs per week, which includes at least 1.5 PAs for SPA time. You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.

On-call commitment will be approximately 1 : 15, and CT scans are outsourced to a tele-radiology company overnight on weekdays and throughout the weekend.

Weekend on calls involve 3 hours onsite DCC each day to predominantly cover acute ultrasound work.

Main duties of the job

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high-quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.

Integral to these responsibilities are the following :

• The provision of a first-class clinical service
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full FRCR or equivalent
• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)

Registration

• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

Training and Experience

• Wide experience in all aspects of Radiology, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC
• Specialist training in Colorectal imaging

Administration

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of Radiology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills including the use of PACS
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
• Management course and / or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
• Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
• Audit Publications

Research and Publications

• Experience of clinical research
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Radiology

Teaching

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
• Teaching skills course / qualification

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• Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy
• All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly

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