Consultant Radiologist

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Torquay; On-site; GBP 86,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled Radiology Consultant to join our established team at Torbay Hospital. The post supports diagnostic imaging for Primary Care and all Trust Specialities, with imaging provided at Torbay DGH, Community sites and a Community Diagnostic Centre.

The role includes on-call duties supported by Radiology Registrars. The post is full-time, available immediately, and contracted to 10 programmed activities per week.

Responsibilities

• Providing high quality diagnostic clinical reports, advice and opinion on all patient types from all referrers into the service.
• Supporting rapid assessment, treatment and clinical decision making to ensure safe, high quality and sustained performance.
• Delivering consultant-led care with clinical leadership and supervision of junior medical staff.
• Providing teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; supervising juniors and specialty doctors.
• Abiding by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the Trust.

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated candidate to join our Radiology Consultant team. Specialist interests can be potentially accommodated depending on speciality.

This Consultant post will join 25 existing Consultant Radiologists. The service provides diagnostic imaging services to Primary Care and all Trust Specialities with imaging provided at Torbay DGH, in Community sites and at a Community Diagnostic Centre. The role includes provision of on-call supported by Radiology Registrars.

This post is offered on a full-time basis and is available as soon as possible. You will be contracted to 10 programmed activities per week.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellence and ability to deliver effective care. Previous experience working in the NHS is required.

Duties

• Providing high quality diagnostic clinical reports, advice and opinion on all patient types from all referrers into the service.
• To be proactive in supporting pathways which ensure that all patients receive rapid assessment, treatment and clinical decision making, whilst ensuring our standard to deliver safe quality and performance are delivered and sustained.
• Consultant delivered care to patients, including clinical leadership and supervision of junior medical staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care are provided to all patients attending the hospital for diagnostics and radiology procedures.
• To provide teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervise and train the juniors and specialty doctors.
• Abiding by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the Trust

The Radiology department at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust (TSDFT) is a dynamic department known for taking a proactive role in service development, quality improvement, and education and training.

We are part of the Peninsula Radiology Network (PenRad) with the Devon and Cornwall Radiology Services collaborating effectively to develop systems that benefit our patients care and provide excellent systems of work and opportunities for our teams.

The Radiology service is based at Torbay Hospital where all main diagnostic modalities are on site.

The Consultant team is supportive and highly collaborative; there are regular Consultant team meetings for updates and planning. The team is flexible in accommodating the interests of new colleagues.

Torbay Hospital offers a range of opportunities for new consultants to be involved in QI, service development, IT projects, research and in education and training. There is excellent practical, administrative and management support for roles in these areas.

Torbay Radiology is well known as a nurturing and supportive department for medical colleagues and for doctors in training. We work with and supervise trainees who are part of the Radiology training programme based at the Radiology Academy in Plymouth and are regularly involved in activities supporting Medical Students.

The Consultant team are an integral part of MDT meetings for specialities within the Trust and for pathways spanning multiple sites.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Sarah Harrison MB ChB, MRCP, FRCR Job title: Consultant - Clinical Service Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01803 655628

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