Job summary
Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Division: Diagnostics and Therapies
Care Group: Unplanned & Integrated Care
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for Consultants in Radiologywho share our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
One of your referees should be the Medical Director / Chief Medical Officer of your most recent NHS employer (or their nominated deputy), or equivalent for applicants from outside of the NHS.
For applicants from outside of the NHS, referees to validate a period of three consecutive years of employment.
For internal candidates, your referees should be your Clinical Director and Clinical Lead.
For applicants who are still in a training post, or have completed training within the past year and have not worked in a non-training NHS role since then, a reference from EACH of your two most recent Educational Supervisors.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for Interventional Radiologist post. The appointees, will be required to contribute to the general workload of the Interventional Radiology department. The posts are whole time 10 PA and the appointees will be expected to participate in the Interventional Radiology on-call rota, one week in 5.
Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The department has a diverse workforce of over 100 qualified Radiographers and actively encourages role extension with Reporting Radiographers in place in Plain Film, CT, Breast and MRI. Plain film offer Hot Reporting to ED for all axial and appendicular imaging.
Our Interventional Radiology Department serves both inpatients and outpatients referred from all specialities throughout MMH, as well as providing IR support to neighbouring Trusts. The IR department is a spoke centre to the Vascular Hub based in Kent and Canterbury Hospital, performing outpatient vascular procedures.
The Interventioanl Radiology Department proudly supports the Center of Excellence for Post Partum Haemorrhage procedures, based at MMH. This is the only centre in the county so provides care to all patients thoughout Kent.
The IR Department runs busy list from Monday to Friday with oncall support out of hours. The team have close connectinos with Urology, Oncology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and the vascular teams. Close working relationships with referring teams has led to the development of several specialist pathways, including:
Radiofrequency Ablation or renal tumours
Prostate Embolisations
Pulmonary Embolism/Deep Vein Thrombosis thrombolysis
Post Partum Haemorrhage embolisation
Thyroid ablation
Uterine fibroid embolisations
Both CT and MRI have core team members specialising in these areas and are supported by the rotational staff that once trained work alongside these staff allowing for CT and MRI specialists to rotate through General Imaging in order to not deskill.
Ultrasound has successfully recruited in recent months and has a dedicated and specialised team of 8 Sonographers that work to vet, scan and report. Active continued professional learning has allowed us to retain staff and develop them to be competent in all areas of scanning inclusive of small parts, Vascular and MSK. Recently, a Sonographer Led Neck biopsy service has been developed.
The Interventional Suite is supported by a team of nine nurses and seven Radiographers who partake in the on call rota allowing for 24/7 cover. All have on-site training from existing staff and Radiologists.
Nuclear Medicine has a team of 5 nurses who work to support the technicians and run therapy clinics alongside the Nuclear Medicine Physicians.
A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director (Dr V. Ganesh), on behalf of the Divisional Director, three months after the commencement date of the appointee, or sooner, dependent on service requirements. This will be signed by the Chief Executive and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment.
This is an Interventional Radiologist post with commitments to the General Radiology rota.
The job plan for the first three months will be based upon the experience of the successful applicant and how independently they are able to perform Interventional Radiology procedures. Typically, a weekly job plan ill consist of 2 Interventional Radiology sessions, 1 US session, 1.5 SPA, Corss sectional reporting session as per interest, but may well be subject to change, dependent on service requirements.
Interventional Radiology On Call is rostered as a whole week at a time at a frequency of 1 week in 5. There are 4 other Consultant Radiologist on the on call rota so swapping on calls is often an option.The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It should cover all aspects of a Consultants professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It should provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition it should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfill the job plan and the objectives.
Provisional assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan:
There is expectation that fixed sessions of clinical activity will need to change between job plans to ensure the needs of the department are met. Flexibility is also expected to cover leave and un-expected workloads. This is departmental policy.
This is a 10PA post which can be increased to 11PA or 12PA if the post holder so wishes.
It is essential for the candidates to have the fellowship from the Royal College of Radiologists.
The indicative job plan includes on call (1PA), 7.5 DCC & 1.5 SPA.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The department has a diverse workforce of over 100 qualified Radiographers and actively encourages role extension with Reporting Radiographers in place in Plain Film, CT, Breast and MRI. Plain film offer Hot Reporting to ED for all axial and appendicular imaging.
Our Interventional Radiology Department serves both inpatients and outpatients referred from all specialities throughout MMH, as well as providing IR support to neighbouring Trusts. The IR department is a spoke centre to the Vascular Hub based in Kent and Canterbury Hospital, performing outpatient vascular procedures.
The Interventioanl Radiology Department proudly supports the Center of Excellence for Post Partum Haemorrhage procedures, based at MMH. This is the only centre in the county so provides care to all patients thoughout Kent.
The IR Department runs busy list from Monday to Friday with oncall support out of hours. The team have close connectinos with Urology, Oncology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and the vascular teams. Close working relationships with referring teams has led to the development of several specialist pathways, including:
Radiofrequency Ablation or renal tumours
Prostate Embolisations
Pulmonary Embolism/Deep Vein Thrombosis thrombolysis
Post Partum Haemorrhage embolisation
Thyroid ablation
Uterine fibroid embolisations
Both CT and MRI have core team members specialising in these areas and are supported by the rotational staff that once trained work alongside these staff allowing for CT and MRI specialists to rotate through General Imaging in order to not deskill.
Ultrasound has successfully recruited in recent months and has a dedicated and specialised team of 8 Sonographers that work to vet, scan and report. Active continued professional learning has allowed us to retain staff and develop them to be competent in all areas of scanning inclusive of small parts, Vascular and MSK. Recently, a Sonographer Led Neck biopsy service has been developed.
The Interventional Suite is supported by a team of nine nurses and seven Radiographers who partake in the on call rota allowing for 24/7 cover. All have on-site training from existing staff and Radiologists.
Nuclear Medicine has a team of 5 nurses who work to support the technicians and run therapy clinics alongside the Nuclear Medicine Physicians.
A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director (Dr V. Ganesh), on behalf of the Divisional Director, three months after the commencement date of the appointee, or sooner, dependent on service requirements. This will be signed by the Chief Executive and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment.
This is an Interventional Radiologist post with commitments to the General Radiology rota.
The job plan for the first three months will be based upon the experience of the successful applicant and how independently they are able to perform Interventional Radiology procedures. Typically, a weekly job plan ill consist of 2 Interventional Radiology sessions, 1 US session, 1.5 SPA, Corss sectional reporting session as per interest, but may well be subject to change, dependent on service requirements.
Interventional Radiology On Call is rostered as a whole week at a time at a frequency of 1 week in 5. There are 4 other Consultant Radiologist on the on call rota so swapping on calls is often an option.The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It should cover all aspects of a Consultants professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It should provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition it should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfill the job plan and the objectives.
Provisional assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan:
There is expectation that fixed sessions of clinical activity will need to change between job plans to ensure the needs of the department are met. Flexibility is also expected to cover leave and un-expected workloads. This is departmental policy.
This is a 10PA post which can be increased to 11PA or 12PA if the post holder so wishes.
It is essential for the candidates to have the fellowship from the Royal College of Radiologists.
The indicative job plan includes on call (1PA), 7.5 DCC & 1.5 SPA.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with license to practice and FRCR
- CCST/CCT/CESR or equivalent in Radiology(or will obtain within 6 months of interview date)
- IELTS (Academic) level 7.5, or graduate of a Medical School in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA or Canada
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Interventional Radiology experience
- Cross sectional CT/MRI/Ultrasound/Plain Film
Experience
Essential
- Non- vascular Interventional Radiology procedure experience is essential. Vascular experience is desirable.
- Experience in Head and Neck imaging or Gynaecology Imaging would be desirable but not essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with license to practice and FRCR
- CCST/CCT/CESR or equivalent in Radiology(or will obtain within 6 months of interview date)
- IELTS (Academic) level 7.5, or graduate of a Medical School in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA or Canada
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Interventional Radiology experience
- Cross sectional CT/MRI/Ultrasound/Plain Film
Experience
Essential
- Non- vascular Interventional Radiology procedure experience is essential. Vascular experience is desirable.
- Experience in Head and Neck imaging or Gynaecology Imaging would be desirable but not essential.
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).
