Consultant Interventional Radiologist

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking proactive and motivated individuals to join their clinical team as Consultant Interventional Radiologists. This full-time role offers the chance to work closely with a dedicated team, providing high standards of care and developing interventional radiology services. Candidates should possess essential skills in vascular and non-vascular intervention. The organization is committed to a positive work-life balance, supporting flexible working patterns to meet employee needs. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a patient-centered environment while enhancing your professional career in a leading healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• GMC Specialist Register entry or nearing CCT completion required.
• Fellowship or equivalent qualification essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality interventional radiology services.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and governance.

Skills

Engagement with clinical governance

Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Education

Entry on GMC Specialist Register

College Fellowship (FRCR)

Postgraduate academic degree

Job description

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we're looking for proactive, motivated, forward-thinking individuals to join our clinical team. These posts are an important part of our ongoing development of services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing Interventional Radiology (IR) team to provide a high standard of care across the Trust. We are seeking consultants with enthusiasm, commitment and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.

We are looking for two full-time Consultant Interventional Radiologists post based at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Applicants should possess the appropriate skill set in vascular and non-vascular intervention to support and help develop interventional radiology services. The successful candidates will join a team of 5 interventional radiology consultants. The Lister Hospital site is fully accredited for training in general radiology and we provide core training in IR and also train senior trainees rotating in IR.

Main duties of the job

To deliver high quality interventional radiology, supporting and developing services within the trust and the vascular network. The diagnostic radiology commitment will be in line with current RCR recommendations.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description
Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

• Maintenance of high quality patient centred care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical education

Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
• College Fellowship (FRCR) or qualification of an equivalent level

Desirable

• Postgraduate academic degree

Previous Experience
Essential

• Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty

Desirable

• EVAR and EVAR planning
• Experience with complex EVAR
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and participation in research

Skills
Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation