Consultant in Diagnostic Cardiothoracic Imaging and Intervention

Job overview

This appointment is for a full-time consultant radiologist who will be primarily working within the imaging service based at Royal Brompton Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have experience and skills in interventional radiology working closely with existing consultants to deliver the interventional radiology service at Royal Brompton Hospital. The post holder will also have experience in cardiovascular or cardiothoracic CT reporting. Candidates with skills in aortic imaging would also be desirable to the department.

In addition, the successful applicant will be responsible for the provision of general radiology reporting, including covering the adult intensive care units.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is expected that the appointee will have already gained experience and expertise in cardiovascular or cardiothoracic imaging as well as interventional radiology  at registrar and/or consultant level.

The appointment follows an increase in interventional workload following the opening of a new diagnostic and intervention centre at Royal Brompton in 2021 and will help  contribute to a comprehensive 24/7 interventional radiology on-call rota. There is a separate general radiology consultant on-call for diagnostic imaging, in addition to separate neuroradiology second opinion service. The Enterprise imaging and Epic RIS/PACS system allows remote reporting from home for the discussion of IR cases. The on-call will be supported by a full interventional radiology nurse and radiographer rota.

The post holder will be integrated into the clinical activities of the general imaging department with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care in addition to contributing to all service developments, teaching and research. They will work and liaise with existing consultants to provide and develop imaging and intervention services. The candidates will need to cover all imaging modalities and contribute to the general radiology workload.

The appointee will be expected to have obtained a diagnostic or interventional radiology fellowship and have published or presented in the field of radiology.

Active engagement in clinical research studies will be encouraged and support in the recruitment of patients to appropriate clinical trials is expected.

A desire to participate in teaching, clinical audit, and quality improvement projects with the aim of continually looking to improve standards of care in the department once appointed is important.

Post-holders will participate in and develop clinical and organisational audit, to improve standards of the service wherever possible.