Opportunities for Career Development, The role offers support for career progression and the chance to become an autonomous practitioner.
Diverse Clinical Experience, The position allows for independent performance and interpretation of various imaging modalities, enhancing clinical skills.
Multisite Exposure, The job involves working across multiple sites (Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District Hospital), providing a broad experience in different environments.
Collaboration and Teamwork, The Specialty Doctor will liaise closely with a range of healthcare professionals, fostering teamwork and improving patient care.
Involvement in Teaching, The role includes teaching junior doctors and staff, contributing to professional development and knowledge sharing.
State-of-the-Art Facilities, The diagnostic department is equipped with modern imaging technology, allowing for high-quality patient care and clinical work.
Supportive Environment, The trust values its Specialty Doctors and provides a clear pathway for personal and professional development.
Join the compassionate team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialty Doctor in Clinical Radiology. This exciting 12-month fixed-term position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in patient care while advancing your career. You will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality Radiology services across our two sites—Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District Hospital, with duties that include independent performance and interpretation of imaging studies such as plain film, contrast studies, and ultrasound. As you gain experience, you'll enjoy enhanced autonomy, all while receiving outstanding support from our dedicated team.
At LTHTR, we truly value our Specialty Doctors and are committed to your professional growth. Benefit from our unique career progression pathway designed to help you flourish into an autonomous practitioner, if that’s your aspiration. You will also engage in training and education for junior doctors and staff, further reinforcing our ethos of collaborative support. Join us in our innovative Radiology Directorate—a place where you can thrive in a well-equipped environment while making an impactful difference in the lives of our patients. If you’re ready to embrace this rewarding challenge, we invite you to connect with Dr. Gagan Thind for an informal chat about the role.
At LTHTR, we truly value our Specialty Doctors and are committed to your professional growth. Benefit from our unique career progression pathway designed to help you flourish into an autonomous practitioner, if that’s your aspiration. You will also engage in training and education for junior doctors and staff, further reinforcing our ethos of collaborative support. Join us in our innovative Radiology Directorate—a place where you can thrive in a well-equipped environment while making an impactful difference in the lives of our patients. If you’re ready to embrace this rewarding challenge, we invite you to connect with Dr. Gagan Thind for an informal chat about the role.
Opportunities for Career Development, The role offers support for career progression and the chance to become an autonomous practitioner.
Diverse Clinical Experience, The position allows for independent performance and interpretation of various imaging modalities, enhancing clinical skills.
Multisite Exposure, The job involves working across multiple sites (Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District Hospital), providing a broad experience in different environments.
Collaboration and Teamwork, The Specialty Doctor will liaise closely with a range of healthcare professionals, fostering teamwork and improving patient care.
Involvement in Teaching, The role includes teaching junior doctors and staff, contributing to professional development and knowledge sharing.
State-of-the-Art Facilities, The diagnostic department is equipped with modern imaging technology, allowing for high-quality patient care and clinical work.
Supportive Environment, The trust values its Specialty Doctors and provides a clear pathway for personal and professional development.
This post has arisen for a Specialty Doctor in Clinical Radiology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which is required to cover some of the identified service requirements arising as a result of expansion within in the Department. This fixed term post is for duration of 12 months and will be reviewed.
Duties will include all those duties normally expected of a Specialty Doctor in a similar sized Radiology department in the United Kingdom; with the majority of the appointee’s time being spent on clinical duties.
The successful candidate will provide a Radiology service as a member of the Directorate. These may be across sites [Royal Preston Hospital or its local CDC Healthport site, Chorley District Hospital] depending on Directorate service requirements.
This job requires on-call commitments; and the post holder will be asked to participate in the general radiology on-call rota.
The successful applicant should be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
As a Specialty Doctor you will be expected to provide Diagnostic Radiology Services to the standard of a Senior Specialist Registrar, with consultant supervision as necessary.
Key Duties Of The Role
Independent performance and interpretation of imaging studies, as a minimum, in the following modalities: plain film, contrast studies, and ultrasound.
Supervised interpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies, and supervised performance of nonvascular intervention. It is anticipated that the degree of consultant supervision required will gradually reduce as experience is gained.
Management of the department to maintain efficient and timely patient flow with specific reference to both local and national targets.
Assist consultant staff in maintaining staffing levels including covering short term sickness
Close liaison with nursing, medical and radiographic staff to ensure patient care is maintained and all trust policies and procedures are adhered to.
You will be required to take an active role in the teaching of junior doctors and be involved in the training of all staff, and to take an active role in teaching and audit.
Other duties which may be allocated by senior staff to ensure the proper care of patients and management of the departments.
Support, teaching and experience will be provided for career development as appropriate.
The successful applicant should be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
LTHTR values extremely its Specialty Doctors and in a first of its kind in the UK, we have agreed and committed ourselves to provide all Specialty doctors joining the trust and those already working with us, a personal career progression pathway with support to become autonomous practitioners if they aspire to do so.
The Radiology Specialty unit is managed within the Clinical Directorate structure and sits within the division of Diagnostics, Clinical Support and Performance.
The Radiology Directorate comprises Radiology, Neuroradiology, Ultrasound, Vascular and non-Vascular Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, including SPECT scanning and Oncological Radiology. Mammography is performed at the Chorley and South Ribble Hospital site.
The successful candidate will be an employee of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The diagnostic department is well equipped, with a range of modern imaging equipment across 3 (Preston, Chorley and the CDC Healthport) sites.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Gagan Thind Job title: Clinical Director, Radiology Email address: Telephone number:
Duties will include all those duties normally expected of a Specialty Doctor in a similar sized Radiology department in the United Kingdom; with the majority of the appointee’s time being spent on clinical duties.
The successful candidate will provide a Radiology service as a member of the Directorate. These may be across sites [Royal Preston Hospital or its local CDC Healthport site, Chorley District Hospital] depending on Directorate service requirements.
This job requires on-call commitments; and the post holder will be asked to participate in the general radiology on-call rota.
The successful applicant should be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
As a Specialty Doctor you will be expected to provide Diagnostic Radiology Services to the standard of a Senior Specialist Registrar, with consultant supervision as necessary.
Key Duties Of The Role
Independent performance and interpretation of imaging studies, as a minimum, in the following modalities: plain film, contrast studies, and ultrasound.
Supervised interpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies, and supervised performance of nonvascular intervention. It is anticipated that the degree of consultant supervision required will gradually reduce as experience is gained.
Management of the department to maintain efficient and timely patient flow with specific reference to both local and national targets.
Assist consultant staff in maintaining staffing levels including covering short term sickness
Close liaison with nursing, medical and radiographic staff to ensure patient care is maintained and all trust policies and procedures are adhered to.
You will be required to take an active role in the teaching of junior doctors and be involved in the training of all staff, and to take an active role in teaching and audit.
Other duties which may be allocated by senior staff to ensure the proper care of patients and management of the departments.
Support, teaching and experience will be provided for career development as appropriate.
The successful applicant should be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent.
LTHTR values extremely its Specialty Doctors and in a first of its kind in the UK, we have agreed and committed ourselves to provide all Specialty doctors joining the trust and those already working with us, a personal career progression pathway with support to become autonomous practitioners if they aspire to do so.
The Radiology Specialty unit is managed within the Clinical Directorate structure and sits within the division of Diagnostics, Clinical Support and Performance.
The Radiology Directorate comprises Radiology, Neuroradiology, Ultrasound, Vascular and non-Vascular Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, including SPECT scanning and Oncological Radiology. Mammography is performed at the Chorley and South Ribble Hospital site.
The successful candidate will be an employee of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The diagnostic department is well equipped, with a range of modern imaging equipment across 3 (Preston, Chorley and the CDC Healthport) sites.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Gagan Thind Job title: Clinical Director, Radiology Email address: Telephone number:
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