Locum Consultant Radiologist

Main area: Radiology

Grade: Locum Consultant

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (on call)

Hours: Part time - 6 sessions per week (on call)

Job ref: 213-MED-PRUH

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Princess Royal University Hospital

Town: Orpington

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 pro rata excl. London Zone Allowance.

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 26/07/

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 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 Locum 12-month Fixed term Consultant post based at the PRUH and south sites. The remit of this role will be to enhance the delivery of Acute Radiology and Rapid Diagnostic Clinic Services at the PRUH site and support general Radiology workloads. The post holder will work within the multi-disciplinary team providing a range of Radiology services. A special interest in Cardiothoracic and MSK diagnostic imaging is also preferable. The department has rolled out a home reporting solution for all radiologists allowing for the potential of home reporting DCC sessions. The successful individual will also play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while also having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff, medical students and associated professional groups. It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of these services depending upon their interests and experience.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide a high quality care service to patients, including 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.

Person specification:

• Qualifications & Higher Qualifications: Registerable medical qualification, Full FRCR or equivalent.
• Registration: Full Registration with GMC, Training in Clinical Radiology, Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment or on the day of interview (applicants must be within 6 months of CCT).
• 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 Cardiothoracic and MSK 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, Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit, Must have undertaken and completed audit projects, Management course and/or qualification.
• Teaching: Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation, Teaching skills course/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.