Consultant Radiologist with Musculoskeletal (MSK) Interest

Job overview

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is delighted to advertise a substantive Consultant Radiologist post with a specialist interest in Musculoskeletal Radiology to join our existing motivated and dynamic team across this large, developing and aspirational Trust. This is a combination of replacement posts within the Adults’ Radiology clinical service within the Division of Imaging.

The Post

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of over 50 Consultant Radiologists in Adults’ Radiology clinical service, providing a full range of imaging services to the local population and tertiary level services across Greater Manchester region and beyond. Adults’ Radiology is the largest department within the Division of Imaging, and our Consultant team provides a full range of general and specialist imaging for Adult patients across our 3 Acute and 2 non-acute hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

Subspecialty

The successful candidate will join our existing team of 10 MSK Radiologists providing services across our 3 major acute sites and CDCs.

The MSK radiology team provides diagnostic and interventional support to a large number of surgical and medical colleagues in teams across the trust. This includes:

• Orthopaedic surgical services
• Regional sarcoma service through the successful GMOSS collaboration.
• Rheumatology services.
• Tertiary level genetic services
• MSK and Haematological Cancer services including MDTs
• Adult medical services, including Endocrinology (which includes tertiary level metabolic bone service)
• Regional MDTs & services including Neurofibromatosis 1 & 2 services and Proton Beam therapy.

The successful applicant should be competent at reporting MSK CT, USS radiographs and MR, and competent with MSK intervention including USS guided injections and arthrograms. Experience of soft tissue and bone biopsies is desirable. The successful candidate should have experience of leading and presenting in MSK MDTs.

Acute & On-Call Radiology

The role has a general component with the successful applicant required to support a session general acute CT and 0.5 PA for diagnostic On-call.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

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Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

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.