Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-R2R-2393-A
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Interventional Radiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Postgraduate academic degree
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
Desirable criteria
- EVAR and EVAR planning
- Experience with complex EVAR
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Demonstrable experience and participation in research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Amit Patel
- Job title
- IR lead Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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