Job summary
This Post is pending Royal College Approval
Applications are welcomed for the post of Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
We are seeking a driven and dynamic colleague to join our established interventional radiology (IR) team at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The successful candidate will contribute to the further development of an already comprehensive vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology service, including the 1 in 7 IR on-call service, while also supporting diagnostic imaging and multidisciplinary care.
This post offers the opportunity to work within a large, collaborative Radiology department with strong links to regional training programmes and an expanding IR service.
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust operates within the Wessex Vascular Network, is a Level 2 Liver Centre, and has a catchment population of around 700,000, although the Wessex Kidney Centre, which comprises renal dialysis and transplant services and is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, casts a wider net with a population of over 2 million falling under this service.
PHU is in partnership with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust which itself serves a population of 140,000, resulting in closer collaboration of services between the two Trusts. Portsmouth hosts the East branch of the Wessex Radiology training scheme and in 2024 the Portsmouth medical school opened.
Main duties of the job
The department currently actively participates in the PAVE II (fistuloplasty), MAGIC Embo (lower GI embolisation), and REACT-AVB (TIPSS) studies and is very supportive of consultants developing research interests and presenting work nationally and internationally.
Vascular Interventions
A day-case vascular angiography service including:
Visceral angiography
Iliac interventions
Femoropopliteal procedures
Below-knee interventions, including retrograde angioplasty with pedal access.
Note that all major vascular procedures, including hybrid interventions and aortic work, are undertaken at Southampton as the regional centre of the Wessex Vascular Network.
Renal and Vascular Access Services
The Wessex Kidney Centre is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital.
The IR team works closely with nephrology and transplant services to provide renal and vascular access interventions for a population of over 2 million people across the south coast of England.
Non-vascular Interventions
These include:
Ultrasound and CT-guided biopsies
Image-guided drainage procedures
Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG)
Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and biliary stenting
TIPSS
Liver embolisation
Liver and lung ablation
Colonic stenting
Nephrostomy insertion
Ureteric stenting
Urological rendezvous procedures
Prostate artery embolisation
Uterine fibroid embolisation
A weekly half-day general anaesthetic interventional list is available for complex procedures.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
Spectrum of Interventional Work
This ambitious department provides an increasing range of vascular and non-vascular interventional procedures.
Recent service developments over the past 5 years include
- TIPSS service
- Ablation services (liver and lung)
- Prostate artery embolisation (PAE)
- Increasing central venous stenting experience for complex vascular access cases in co-ordination with the Guys and Thomas IR team.
Planned future development includes additional interventional oncology services, including tumour cryoablation, as well as low flow vascular malformation sclerotherapy/embolisation, and MSK embolisation.
Applicants with experience in these areas are welcomed but this is not essential. The department supports consultants wishing to develop new procedural services or areas of interest.
The department currently actively participates in the PAVE II fistuloplasty, MAGIC Embo lower GI embolisation, and REACT-AVB TIPSS studies and is very supportive of consultants developing research interests and presenting work nationally and internationally.
Vascular Interventions
A day-case vascular angiography service including
- Visceral angiography
- Iliac interventions
- Femoropopliteal procedures
- Below-knee interventions, including retrograde angioplasty with pedal access.
Note that all major vascular procedures, including hybrid interventions and aortic work, are undertaken at Southampton as the regional centre of the Wessex Vascular Network.
Renal and Vascular Access Services
The Wessex Kidney Centre is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital.
The IR team works closely with nephrology and transplant services to provide renal and vascular access interventions for a population of over 2 million people across the south coast of England.
Non-vascular Interventions
These include
- Ultrasound and CT-guided biopsies
- Image-guided drainage procedures
- Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG)
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and biliary stenting
- TIPSS
- Liver embolisation
- Liver and lung ablation
- Colonic stenting
- Nephrostomy insertion
- Ureteric stenting
- Urological rendezvous procedures
- Prostate artery embolisation
- Uterine fibroid embolisation
- A weekly half-day general anaesthetic interventional list is available for complex procedures.
Emergency IR
Out-of-hours work is varied but predominantly includes
- Nephrostomy insertion
- Image-guided drainage
- Acute embolisation procedures
Prospective candidates must be able to perform these procedures independently.
Interventional Radiology Facilities
Radiology Day Case Unit (RDCU)
The department has a 9-bed Radiology Day Case Unit supporting elective interventional procedures.
The unit is staffed by 20 Registered nurses, 11 Radiographers, 5 Healthcare support workers, 3 Administrative staff
The RDCU team works closely with the IR consultants and performs pre-assessment of patients prior to elective procedures.
Interventional Radiology Suites
Two dedicated IR fluoroscopy rooms are located within the RDCU
- Siemens Artis Q angiography system
- Siemens Artis Zee system (scheduled for recommission 2027/28)
Additional facilities include
- Inpatient fluoroscopy suite (Siemens Artis Zee multipurpose)
- Dedicated ultrasound intervention room used for elective and emergency procedures
Teaching and Training
The department is instrumental in providing highly rated postgraduate training with Radiology trainees rotating through the East Wessex Radiology Training Scheme.
Additionally, we provide consistent, high quality undergraduate education and IR exposure to graduate-entry medical students from the University of Portsmouth working in partnership with Kings College London.
The consultant will contribute to formal and informal teaching activities in these regards.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Spectrum of Interventional Work
This ambitious department provides an increasing range of vascular and non-vascular interventional procedures.
Recent service developments over the past 5 years include
- TIPSS service
- Ablation services (liver and lung)
- Prostate artery embolisation (PAE)
- Increasing central venous stenting experience for complex vascular access cases in co-ordination with the Guys and Thomas IR team.
Planned future development includes additional interventional oncology services, including tumour cryoablation, as well as low flow vascular malformation sclerotherapy/embolisation, and MSK embolisation.
Applicants with experience in these areas are welcomed but this is not essential. The department supports consultants wishing to develop new procedural services or areas of interest.
The department currently actively participates in the PAVE II fistuloplasty, MAGIC Embo lower GI embolisation, and REACT-AVB TIPSS studies and is very supportive of consultants developing research interests and presenting work nationally and internationally.
Vascular Interventions
A day-case vascular angiography service including
- Visceral angiography
- Iliac interventions
- Femoropopliteal procedures
- Below-knee interventions, including retrograde angioplasty with pedal access.
Note that all major vascular procedures, including hybrid interventions and aortic work, are undertaken at Southampton as the regional centre of the Wessex Vascular Network.
Renal and Vascular Access Services
The Wessex Kidney Centre is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital.
The IR team works closely with nephrology and transplant services to provide renal and vascular access interventions for a population of over 2 million people across the south coast of England.
Non-vascular Interventions
These include
- Ultrasound and CT-guided biopsies
- Image-guided drainage procedures
- Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG)
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and biliary stenting
- TIPSS
- Liver embolisation
- Liver and lung ablation
- Colonic stenting
- Nephrostomy insertion
- Ureteric stenting
- Urological rendezvous procedures
- Prostate artery embolisation
- Uterine fibroid embolisation
- A weekly half-day general anaesthetic interventional list is available for complex procedures.
Emergency IR
Out-of-hours work is varied but predominantly includes
- Nephrostomy insertion
- Image-guided drainage
- Acute embolisation procedures
Prospective candidates must be able to perform these procedures independently.
Interventional Radiology Facilities
Radiology Day Case Unit (RDCU)
The department has a 9-bed Radiology Day Case Unit supporting elective interventional procedures.
The unit is staffed by 20 Registered nurses, 11 Radiographers, 5 Healthcare support workers, 3 Administrative staff
The RDCU team works closely with the IR consultants and performs pre-assessment of patients prior to elective procedures.
Interventional Radiology Suites
Two dedicated IR fluoroscopy rooms are located within the RDCU
- Siemens Artis Q angiography system
- Siemens Artis Zee system (scheduled for recommission 2027/28)
Additional facilities include
- Inpatient fluoroscopy suite (Siemens Artis Zee multipurpose)
- Dedicated ultrasound intervention room used for elective and emergency procedures
Teaching and Training
The department is instrumental in providing highly rated postgraduate training with Radiology trainees rotating through the East Wessex Radiology Training Scheme.
Additionally, we provide consistent, high quality undergraduate education and IR exposure to graduate-entry medical students from the University of Portsmouth working in partnership with Kings College London.
The consultant will contribute to formal and informal teaching activities in these regards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- - Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights
- - Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
- - Subspecialty experience in genitourinary imaging
Desirable
- - Management course or experience.
- - Fellowship level training in genitourinary imaging.
- - Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
Experience
Essential
- - Demonstrable, significant and ongoing experience in GU radiology with evidence of significant subspecialist training, including competence in a broad range of ultrasound, MRI, CT including biopsies.
- - General Diagnostic Radiology skills to support local requirements for acute general radiology service weekday time and on call/ in and working at weekend.
- - Understanding of clinical risk management.
- - Evidence of teaching medical, radiographic and nursing staff.
Desirable
- - Fellowship in Uroradiology.
- - Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
Additional criteria
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice; Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights; Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent; Subspecialty experience in genitourinary imaging.
Desirable
- Management course or experience; Fellowship level training in genitourinary imaging; Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- - Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights
- - Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
- - Subspecialty experience in genitourinary imaging
Desirable
- - Management course or experience.
- - Fellowship level training in genitourinary imaging.
- - Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
Experience
Essential
- - Demonstrable, significant and ongoing experience in GU radiology with evidence of significant subspecialist training, including competence in a broad range of ultrasound, MRI, CT including biopsies.
- - General Diagnostic Radiology skills to support local requirements for acute general radiology service weekday time and on call/ in and working at weekend.
- - Understanding of clinical risk management.
- - Evidence of teaching medical, radiographic and nursing staff.
Desirable
- - Fellowship in Uroradiology.
- - Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
Additional criteria
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice; Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights; Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent; Subspecialty experience in genitourinary imaging.
Desirable
- Management course or experience; Fellowship level training in genitourinary imaging; Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.
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.
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.
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).
