In addition to clinical duties, the role involves contributing to the training and education of medical staff, participating in local multidisciplinary teams, and engaging in research and audit activities aligned with the Trust's objectives. The position offers a 10 PA contract consisting of 9 direct clinical care sessions and 1 supporting professional activity session, with a focus on maintaining high-quality patient care and operational efficiency. The candidate must hold GMC registration and be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists or an equivalent qualification.
This is a locum consultant appointment for a radiologist with subspecialty training in interventional radiology. Oncological Interventional skills and or cardiovascular reporting would be a bonus.
The post will be predominately based at the Chelsea and Westminster site with sessions at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
The successful candidate will supervise interventional lists covering procedures such as US/CT guided biopsy and drainage procedures, venous access, urological and HPB intervention, including ablation of liver and lung lesions. There is also the possibility to perform and further develop more subspecialist work such as PCNL, embolisation of prostate / uterine / testicular embolisation, paediatric AVM therapy, MSK intervention.
At present there is no dedicated peripheral vascular intervention, however, this will change in the near future. The successful candidate may wish to pursue this.Development of new techniques will be encouraged and experience in paediatric intervention would be advantageous.
The applicant should be on the Specialist register of the GMC and be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists or equivalent.
The new appointee will be expected to participate in the IR on call rota covering the Chelsea and Westminster, Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals. On call frequency will be 1:8 weeks / year.
In addition, there may be emergency situations when attendance outside routine hours is required.
Provision of IR at the West Middlesex site is currently limited, therefore emergency cases are transferred to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. There are plans to expand IR at West Middlesex with installation of a new IR suite in the upcoming years.
The job plan will include sessions dedicated to general and cross sectional reporting so it would be essential for the prospective candidate to be able to report body CT and MRI.
The 10 PA contract comprises 9 DCC sessions and 1 SPA session.
The proposed job plan will be subject to change to allow for any future extended 7-day service requirement and provision of services across the entire Trust.
The successful candidate will be expected to partake in local MDT's.
Each Consultant has access to a dedicated PACS reporting station, a PC and a laptop for remote image viewing when on call.
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Provide High Quality Care to Patients
- The post holder must adhere to the standards outlined by the GMC for Good Medical Practice.
- Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
- Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
- Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
- Demonstrate, model and encourage Trust Values at all times to all patients and staff.
Research, Teaching and Training
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- Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as agreed with the Service Lead. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
- Act as a clinical supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director/Service Lead to ensure external accreditation of training post.
- Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
- Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy.
- The Trust expects all consultants to participate fully in continuing professional development to ensure that skills and knowledge are updated in line with relevant medical developments. Consultants may apply to the study leave budget for help with associated expenses in line with the terms and conditions of their contract. In addition consultants will be expected to undertake some non-clinical training and development at the discretion of the trust management, for example, Leadership Training.
Performance Management
- To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
- Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
- Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates
- Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
- Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
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