Consultant in Radiology

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The successful applicant will support the current delivery of Radiology services. The post holder will share in the responsibility for the management of the Radiology service at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will be expected to take part in lymphoma, head and neck and lung cancer MDTs and provide PET-CT reporting within the trust.

The RBH currently outsources its PET-CT services to In-Health who provide a mobile PET-CT unit on a Friday, scanning approximately 18 patients per week. This figure is projected to grow by 10-15% per year. The appointee would be responsible for reporting of the In-Health PET-CT.

The successful applicant will be expected to develop the in house PET-CT reporting service with the aim to establish a robust and sustainable PET-CT service in the future. There is an expectation that the successful applicant will oversee the training of local radiologists to increase local knowledge and skills of PET-CT with the aim of creating a sustainable local knowledge base., The post holder will share clinical and managerial leadership within the Radiology service with the present consultants. An office base with secretarial and administrative support will be provided.

The appointment is for a general cross sectional Radiologist with a sub-speciality interest in Oncology Radiology

Clinical Objectives

• To provide, with colleagues, Radiology services in both in-patient and out-patient settings
  

Management responsibilities

• Active participation in monthly clinical governance meetings within the department.
• Participation and involvement in meetings and other business in the Radiology department
  

Teaching, Research & Audit

The Radiology department has recently been awarded the status of University Department of Radiology which reflects our excellent governance structures, teaching and training activities, our broad and diverse research portfolio and excellent track record in staff development. This has ratified our close links with the University of Reading and we are looking forward to future developments in this collaboration.

The Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust Radiology department received the highest level (’Excellent’) status from the Oxford Deanery annual school reports in 2015, 2016 and 2017. We run weekly teaching for our trainees and our Intervention and MSK rotations are particularly popular. We have a robust programme of audit and Clinical Governance with monthly meetings in Radiology. Findings from audit and Clinical Governance are regularly fed into the educational meetings and communicated widely amongst the staff.

We work closely with other departments and Reading University and are actively involved in a number of local and national research projects. The Trust has an excellent reputation for education, as measured by its PMETB report and regular responses from trainees and medical students. It has a recently upgraded medical library and an active clinical librarian service, a clinical skills unit and a state of the art simulation centre opened in 2009.

Continuing Professional Development

The appointee will be expected to participate in personal appraisals annually and will also be expected to take part in a CPD program. The responsible officer for the post is currently the Medical Director and there is a revalidation officer to provide administrative support and advice for medical staff maintaining their credentials for revalidation.

Provisional Job Plan

This is a part time post with 7.5 Programmed activities. The balance between Direct Clinical Care and Supporting Professional Activities will be agreed with the post holder in the final job plan. The SPA allocation is 1.5 for personal CME, audit and revalidation requirements including departmental meetings. Additional SPAs may be allocated for specific agreed objectives for the Trust, subject to the agreement of the Clinical Lead.

Expected Minimum Reporting Numbers Within The Department Are

16 cases per 4 hour CT session, 16 cases per 4 hour MRI session, 10-12 cases per ultrasound session and 100 plain films per reporting session, 1. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

• Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
• All vacancies followed by INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY have been classified as an internal role and only internal candidates will be considered.
• All staff identified as AT-RISK who meets the requirements of the post will be prioritised accordingly. Priority will initially be given to Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust employees.
• All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.
  

Applications from Tier 2 candidates who require Tier 2 immigration status to work in the UK are welcome but such candidates will not be appointed to the post if there are a sufficient number of other suitable and available candidates, as the employing body will in those circumstances be unable to satisfy the Resident Market Labour Test as required by the Border Immigration Authority.

• The Trust operates a smoke-free policy*
  

Applicant requirements

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.

• Full registration with the GMC/eligible for registration
• Within 6 months of CCST in (Speciality) at interview date
• FRCR (UK) or equivalent
  

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree e.g. MD/MSc submitted/awarded
• ARSAC licence holder in nuclear medicine and PET-CT, * Takes responsibility for clinical governance and GMC Good Medical Practice
• Extensive experience working within Oncology Radiology
• Ability to report all nuclear medicine related studies and PET-CT
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of multiple oncology MDTs including lymphoma, head and neck and lung cancer., * All aspects of General Radiology and patient care. Specialist interest in Oncology Radiology
  

Desirable criteria

• Interest in oncology imaging and PET-CT
• Experience of PET-CT service development and training, * Ability to work within clinical governance guidelines
• Undertake audits and present data as required
• Good IT skills, use of patient and hospital database
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of clinical leadership role demonstrating accountability for quality of care, financial controls and efficient management of workforce
• Evidence of experience in service development and protocol writing - particularly in regard to PET-CT and oncology imaging., * Track record of publications in peer reviewed journals
• Evidence of providing good teaching and supervision to trainees. Specific evidence of knowledge and experience of a developing PET-CT services
  

Desirable criteria

• Educational qualification or accreditation
• Experience in organising Radiology teaching including undergraduate teaching in radiology
• Experience of organising radiology training courses., * Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
• Willingness to take responsibility and exert appropriate authority
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to work within MDT
• Accountability; ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
• Interpersonal skills; ability to see patients as people, ability to empathise and work co-operatively with others., All applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview. This is in order to comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016
  

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

• We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
  

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical., Our department has Insignia PACS, Cerner millennium RIS and Soliton voice recognition software. We are well equipped with Philips 1.5 and 3T static MRI scanners in addition to a mobile Philips 1.5 Integra scanner based at the West Berkshire Community Hospital (WBCH) in Thatcham. The CT department is equipped with GE High Definition 750 CT and GE VCT scanners, installed in 2009, plus a new Toshiba Aquillion Prime housed in an on-site relocatable unit. A second static Aquillion Prime is installed at WBCH. Our ultrasound suite has 8 Hitatchi Ascendus machines and a Phillips Epiq 7 for vascular and interventional use. We also have two new interventional rooms, a fluoroscopy suite, a breast screening centre, a dedicated radiology nursing unit and a nuclear medicine department. We are planning to expand our MRI capacity with the addition of two new scanners to be based at WBCH. In addition, we currently have use of a commercial mobile MRI scanner

located at Bracknell Healthspace. We have recently acquired onsite PET CT, provided by a commercial supplier and operated out of the Berkshire Cancer Centre.