Consultant Interventional and Diagnostic Radiologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a consultant radiologist to join our team at Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospital Trust.

We are looking for an enthusiastic consultant to join our well-established, dedicated, and supportive radiology team to serve a population of 750,000.

The post holder will be primarily located at Queen's/King George Hospital, Romford, but may require working at Barking CDC at Barking and St. George's CDC at Hornchurch.

The post holder is expected to:

• Share an office with another colleague with access to a PACS reporting station.
• Provide general Interventional Radiology across trust sites.
• Report cross-sectional images performed on the MRI and CT scanners at the CDC centres, King's and Queen's Hospital.
• Contribute to the general duty roster and hot reporting sessions.
• Contribute to the specialist and general MDTs with other colleagues in rotation.
• Share an on-call commitment with existing IR consultants.
• Have a PC and, in addition, a reporting workstation for remote access to images for on-call purposes.

Main duties of the job

• Adhere to the appropriate clinical and quality standards, liaise effectively and on a timely basis with colleagues, general practitioners, community services, and all healthcare agencies, and maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary working.
• Maintain confidentiality about sensitive data as per Trust's information governance guidelines.
• Make use of physical skills in carrying out roles and responsibilities wherever appropriate.
• Make judicious use of the resources and systems made available by the Trust.
• Participate in the development and implementation of policy and/or management of radiology services.
• Attend and participate in departmental governance meetings, including investigations of incidents and audits where necessary.
• Attend and participate in operational and clinical meetings where these are deemed essential to the running of the department and/or service.
• Acquire and maintain the required level of evidence-based practice within your area of special interest.
• Comply with all the trust and departmental policies in relation to job planning, appraisal, and leave.
• Deputize for an absent consultant or associate specialist colleague on occasions where this is necessary to complete core services in a timely manner.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better, and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefiting from a new electronic patient record, and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre, and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly, and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted-accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Intervention Profile

We pride ourselves in the delivery of a State-of-the-Art service, where our patients are at the core of a strategy of delivering high-quality individualized treatments in a culturally sensitive, dignified, and compassionate environment.

We work in close collaboration with the Vascular Surgeons and are currently involved in commencing dedicated IR Clinics.

Workload is varied but largely consists of vascular intervention, including a busy endovascular aortic stent program.

We also work closely with the Gynaecologists in offering a UFE service.

We provide a 24-hour interventional service, with dedicated interventional nurses and radiographers across the site. Our Angiographic suite is based within the main theatre complex, with the latest angiographic bi-plane unit from Siemens. The on-call IR rota covers interventional emergencies ranging from acute gastrointestinal bleeds to RTA trauma intervention, as well as PPH.

We have recently included pulmonary thrombectomy as an in-hours service, and we have plans to include renal access fistula work, as well as RFA intervention, in the near future.

Job Plan

A formal job plan will be agreed with the clinical director.

The post holder and the division director/service lead will review the job plan annually with relevant general managers.

The expectation is that the trust and the post holder will work together to benefit the patient, and individuals will review the job plan as a guide, which may be amended in line with service changes.

The job plan below gives a general outline of the duties of the post and is not intended to be inflexible. It may be subject to change after consultation with the candidate as per the trust requirements.

Programmed activities:

• Direct clinical care activities (DCC): 8.5 PAs per week, out of which 2 PA is for regular on-call commitment.
• Supporting professional activities (SPA): 1.5 PAs per week (These are activities that underpin direct clinical care; they must be relevant to the Trust, team, as well as the individual consultant, including audit, clinical governance, CPD, job planning, teaching, research, etc.).