Locum Consultant in Radiology

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Radiologist? We want you to be a part of our dedicated team at The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust!

We are expanding to meet the rapid increase in demand for cross-sectional imaging and particularly to support the work of our cancer centre. This is a really fantastic opportunity to join a highly skilled, hard-working team. We will work together to build exciting, interesting and sustainable roles around existing sub-specialty expertise, integrating into the appropriate MDTs.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Environment: Work at a leading modern general hospital and specialist tertiary cancer centre.
• Supportive Team: Join a friendly and collaborative team of 25 Consultants, 5 Registrars, 83 Radiographers, 24 nursing and assistant staff and 25 administrators.
• Career Growth: Our Diagnostic Strategy aims to expand services and resources, supporting your career progression.

Exciting Investments:

• MRI Suite: Featuring the latest patient experience environment with two Philips MRI scanners, 1.5T and 3T, equipped with Acquisition Acceleration Technology.
• Interventional Suite: Redesigned with the latest Siemens IR unit.
• Sectra PACS: As part of the Surrey and Sussex Consortium.
• Milford Community Hospital: Expanded DR plain film and ultrasound facilities, with 2 Siemens MRI scanners (3T and 1.5T) and CT .

Main duties of the job

We are seeking candidates with previous experience in the reporting of cancer imaging, and the support of oncology MDTs and research. This is a general radiology post however subspecialist interests would be welcomed and supported.

Main duties include, but are lot limited to:

• In conjunction with Consultant and Senior colleagues, to provide a service in general radiology, in particular MRI and CT for cancer and potential cancer.
• Provision of radiological reports and investigations as required by the clinical director.  This will include plain film reporting and general radiology.
• To provide cover for Consultant and Senior colleagues in respect of periods of leave, including MDT cover.

On-Call:

The current on-call commitment will be a 1 in 15 general radiological on-call which equates to 1PA. There is an option for a home workstation to be set up for on call reporting. Outside of the hours of 8 am-8pm Monday to Sunday we are supported by an outsourced reporting company.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are recruiting for two Locum Consultant Diagnostic Radiologist.

Full details of the role, prospective job plan and person specification can be found on the full JD attached.