Locum Consultant - Clinical Radiologist with a special interest in Interventional Radiology

Job overview

The post-holder is expected to help grow the number and variety of IR procedures being performed at WHTHT new IR unit, help establish new services such as prostate artery embolisation, thrombectomy for pulmonary thromboembolic disease and management of venous disease such as venoplasty & stenting. The post-holder will also be expected to support the vascular interventional radiology meetings.

The position would involve a commitment to the AAU radiology rota. A dedicated 5-hour session per week is currently allocated to this with occasional additional filler sessions. On-call commitments will involve a 1 in 18 weekend rota with a requirement to be on site at the weekend/bank holidays between 08:30 and 15:30.

Furthermore, plans are underway to establish a dedicated IR on-call rota when there are enough interventional radiologists and the post-holder will be able to transfer from the general on-call rota to support the IR rota.

Main duties of the job

Extensive experience in general and interventional radiology

Knowledge of NHS complaints system

Record of incident and near miss reporting

Presentation skills

Teaching undergraduates and postgraduates

Demonstrates honesty, integrity and appreciation of ethical dilemmas

Audit experience

Experience of research, presentations to learned societies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

7am -7pm Monday-Friday with flexible job plan available

On call back up overnight and weekend 8.30am -3.30pm

• Two Interventional Radiology full days
• Vascular MDT 2 hours Wednesday afternoon
• AAU flexible with on call
• IR and General reporting with other subspecialty MDT considered
• SPA 1.5 PAs TBC