At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team as a Locum Consultant Radiologist focusing on Chest/Cardiothoracic imaging.
- Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, known for its supportive and collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Flexible working, protected time for personal development, and access to office space.
- Other info: Exciting opportunities for career growth and collaboration with renowned clinicians.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in patient care while developing your specialist interests.
- Qualifications: Must be a qualified radiologist with a subspecialist interest in Chest/Cardiothoracic.
The predicted salary is between 44595 - 54505 £ per year.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Locum Consultant Radiologist with a subspecialist interest in Chest / Cardiothoracic Radiology to join our highly diverse, motivated, and thriving Radiology Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The new post has become available following significant investment in our Community Diagnostic Centre.
This is a 12-month full-time fixed term post, with a view to be made a permanent substantive post and will be based at Chorley and Preston Hospital and also our local CDC site, Preston Healthport. The successful candidate will support general radiology, assist in the smooth running of the Directorate and work with colleagues in the provision of an effective and efficient service. The successful candidate must live within 45 minutes travel time of RPH.
You will join a committed and friendly team of Chest / Cardiothoracic Radiologists with various subspecialty interests including cardiac imaging, lung biopsy, ILD, PET/CT and Post-mortem CT. The team currently supports 13 Chest physicians, with whom we have a close relationship, also with a wide variety of clinical interests, including lung cancer, ILD, asthma, interventional bronchoscopy, and pleural intervention. There will be opportunities to develop any of these further as well supporting expanding clinical interests such as the pleural service and innovative interventional bronchoscopy techniques.
There are weekly Lung Cancer MDTs, a general chest clinico-radiological MDT and bi-monthly regional ILD MDTs. LTHTR is a cancer centre and is the central hub for the regional ILD service. Duties will include all those duties normally expected of a radiologist in a similar sized Radiology department in the United Kingdom. The majority of the appointee’s time will be spent on clinical duties.
In addition, the appointee will be expected to take part in the formal teaching and ongoing audit programmes within the directorate as well as a full range of management duties commensurate with this role. The successful candidate will also be expected to provide cross sectional imaging reporting and support for various MDTs. The post will involve 10-programmed activities of imaging support (8 DPAs plus 1.5 SPAs and 0.5 for on-call).
The Radiology Directorate comprises Radiology, Neuroradiology, Ultrasound, Vascular (general) Interventional Radiology, Chest Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, including SPECT scanning and Oncological Radiology and Mammography service. At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, you will work as part of a collaborative, friendly and caring team where you will be valued for who you are.
We will support you to achieve your personal goals and to build the career you want. As a member of our team you can expect that:
- You will continue to develop your career working with a collaborative and supportive team, working alongside innovative and nationally renowned clinicians who are specialists in their field.
- You will be an integral part of MDT and the clinical team.
- You will have access to office space and secretarial support.
- You will have flexible working opportunities.
- You will have protected time to develop your specialist interests in audit, research and education, this will be agreed through the job planning process.
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details.
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