Consultant Radiologist - Hepatobiliary Radiology

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 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.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for Hepatobiliary radiological services. Those who are either diagnostic and interventional trained are welcome to apply. They will join a team of 6 dedicated HPB radiologists who deliver both diagnostic and interventional HPB radiology for the hospital, network and wider patient groups.

Main duties of the job

The Department of Radiology (Denmark Hill Site) is looking to appoint a consultant radiologist to join a friendly dynamic department committed to providing a timely high quality imaging service. This is a replacement post to support the delivery and continue of our HPB imaging service from which is consultant led from 8am to 7pm. The post will be based at Denmark Hill and a proposed Job Plan (up to 10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. The successful applicant will join either the diagnostic or interventional rota, depending on their particular skill set.

• 1:20 for diagnostic and 1:13 for intervention

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts. Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon. We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year. We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
• Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
• Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
• Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.

King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

Person specification

• Qualifications & Registration: Registerable medical qualification FRCR or equivalent. Within six months of the expected date of CCT (or equivalent) on the day of interview. Full registration with GMC with licence to practice. Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD(Res), PhD). CCT or equivalent.
• Training and Experience: Wide experience all aspects of radiology in the UK, culminating towards award of CCT or equivalent. Recent training and experience in specialist HPB Radiology. Post CCT experience or fellowship in aspects of HPB and /or liver transplant imaging. Non-vascular interventional skills - USS guided biopsies/drainages.
• Administration: Experience in day-to-day organisation of radiology services in a busy Hospital. Familiarity with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
• Management and Leadership: Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams. 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 and quality improvement. Able to demonstrate ability to lead change.
• Research and Publications: Experience of supporting clinical research. Relevant research experience in radiology. Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
• Teaching: Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation. Teaching skills course/qualification.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Additional information

Interested applicants are invited to discuss the post with Dr Fiona Miller (Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Director) and Dr Dylan Lewis (Consultant HPB Radiologist and Clinical Lead for HPB Radiology) via email: fiona.miller8@nhs.net, dylanlewis@nhs.net.