Cardiothoracic Radiology Fellowship

Job overview

Fellowship in Thoracic Radiology.

Main site of activity: SMH, CXH, HH

Accountable to Dr Elika Kashef (CD), Dr Edward Barden (Head of Specialty Thoracic Radiology), Dr Samir Mahboobani (Head of Training Thoracic Radiology).

Applicants should possess FRCR or equivalent. They should have CCTd or achieved equivalent consultant competency prior to the start date of the fellowship.

The post will run for a fixed term of 12 months duration.

Background:

ICHNT offers tertiary level services in cardiology, respiratory medicine and cardiothoracic surgery. It is a busy radiology department with 4 cardiothoracic radiology consultants, 2 thoracic radiology consultants, 3 cardiac radiologists. In addition, radiologists work closely with the imaging cardiologists at Hammersmith Hospital.

ICHNT covers a broad caseload encompassing all fields of cardiothoracic medicine/imaging. In addition, ICHNT is a specialist haematological oncology unit offering stem cell transplantation and a specialist renal unit with renal and pancreatic transplant services. These particularly vulnerable cohorts of patient’s require regular input from the respiratory medicine services based at Hammersmith Hospital.

The Trust has a busy lung oncology service which offers stereotactic ablative radiotherapy. We offer a full cohort of nuclear medicine imaging modalities.

The recent NHS roll-out of Total Lung Health Checks/Lung Cancer Screening has led to a significant increase in lung cancer imaging and need for radiological intervention. This comes with increasing training opportunity in diagnostic and interventional radiology as well as training in NHS management skills.

This fellowship aims to offer advanced training in all subspecialties and across all modalities of thoracic imaging (CT/MR/US).

Candidates will also have exposure to general radiology with tertiary level cases in all fields of radiology.

Main duties of the job

• Thoracic reporting across all imaging modalities.
• Leading CT guided intervention lists (lung biopsy, lung cancer localisation, complex chest drainage). US guided intervention lists are also accessible.
• Participation on the rota for the various MDTs in thoracic imaging.
• On call working as part of our senior fellow rota (~1:6). This would be to support the first on junior radiology registrars. Services include tertiary level multi-modality imaging in hyperacute stroke and neurosurgery, vascular imaging (including for renal and pancreatic transplant assessment), Level 1 major trauma, and all areas of general radiology.
• Candidates will also have the opportunity to be involved with in house quality improvement/governance projects.
• Research opportunities are available in numerous areas of cutting edge clinical radiology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The purpose of this post is to provide further/advanced training to a subspecialised thoracic radiologist. This includes diagnostic and interventional training as well as opportunity to take part in management projects alongside RM Partners West London Cancer Alliance. This will give invaluable experience that will prove useful for Consultant Practice.

Candidates will be expected to take part in supervised reporting of all modalities in imaging with a plan to progress to more independent working.

Candidates will be expected to run at least one CT guided lung biopsy list with consultant support as needed.

Candidates will be expected to take part in a number of subspecialised thoracic radiology MDTs (Cancer, Screening review, ILD, Infectious disease etc.), with a view to leading these independently.

Candidates will also have the opportunity to be involved with in house quality improvement/governance projects.

For Detailed job description and main responsibilities refer to attached Job Description.