Consultant Radiologist with special interest in Urology

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Uro-Radiologist at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will contribute to the delivery of a high-quality radiology service within a busy imaging department as part of the Uro-radiology team.

The successful candidate will join a team of 34 other Consultant Radiologists in Bradford and contribute to the non-vascular interventional  on call rota (NVIR) of 1:10.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute services for the City of Bradford and surrounding areas, and has two large Hospitals; Bradford Royal Infirmary and St. Luke’s Hospital and is also part of the Eccleshill Diagnostic Centre. All main specialties are represented in Bradford, and the Trust has a base of 900 beds. For further information regarding the Trust please go to: www. bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk

The Trust is committed to improving the working lives of its staff; we aim for a flexible approach to working hours, and have a number of family friendly policies.

Main duties of the job

In addition to specialist UroRadiology service, the appointee will support:

General Acute service: Radiologists are expected to contribute to the weekly rota to provide Duty Radiologist or Inpatient CT or MR hot reporting. They are expected to check overnight on call reports and support trainees with acute general reporting.

Intervention on call: There are currently 6 radiologists on the NVIR rota providing a 1:10 service with locum gaps. Interventions most commonly performed are nephrostomy, abdominal and chest drainages and chest drain for pneumothorax, supported by radiographic and nursing staff. There is a separate Vascular IR rota.

For further information regarding this post please contact the Radiology and Imaging Clinical Director Dr Philip Marjoram Tel: 01274 38 4491.

Short-listed candidates are encouraged to visit by prior appointment.

Applications should contain details of GMC registration and CCT (or evidence of eligibility to apply for CCT) along with names and addresses of three referees (one of which should be your current or most recent employer), please note,

- If you are currently a substantive consultant, we would require one of your referees to be either the Medical Director or Chief Executive,

- If you are currently a Specialty Registrar, we would require one of your referees to be your Training Programme Director.

For full details please see job description and person specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The appointee will work closely with three colleagues with special interest in Uro-radiology, Urologists and Renal Medicine physicians at Bradford Teaching Hospitals. Specialist activities include Stone MDT, Urology Cancer MDT, and all Uro-interventions including Trans perineal prostate biopsies and Nephrostomy.

All new Consultant job plans include 1.5 SPAs.

The job plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultant’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year.  It should cover all aspects of a Consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities.  It should provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.  In addition, it should include personal objectives including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the Consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.  The provisional job plan is set out below.  This will be based on the nationally agreed whole-time contract.