Radiology

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Specialty Doctor in General Radiology, full time 10 PA's per week position. This is a permanent post.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a General Hospital with supra-regional Plastics and Burns Service. The Trust provides acute and specialist hospital services to more than 500,000 people in Mid. and South Buckinghamshire. There are 2 acute hospitals sites at Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville as well as peripheral sites, the largest of which is situated in Amersham. The world-renowned National Spinal Injury Centre is on the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the Radiology Department provides a wide range of specialist imaging and interventional services to the Unit.

There are ample opportunities for teaching and research. Radiology Registrars from Oxford rotate through the Department, and as of this year, the training of 2 IR Fellows is shared with Oxford.

Qualifications required are full GMC registration and relevant specialist experience.

Many clinical services have recently been reconfigured across the Trust with most acute services being localized at Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe remains the acute site for Cardiology and Hyper Acute Stroke, serving Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

Planned Interview Date is Monday 8 July 2024

Main duties of the job

The radiology department at BHT is highly regarded within the Trust as an approachable and innovative department. It has consistently achieved the highest score in the Oxford radiology registrars feedback in the past decade in the regional programme.

The department believes in delivering excellence through developing and supporting subspecialty radiologists and delivering access through maintaining and supporting general radiology skills in addition to supporting role extension.

The post is full time (10 programmed activities) for a Specialty Doctor in Radiology. The successful candidate will join a team of 20 consultant radiologists. The post holder will be based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but will be expected to work on other sites as required.

The post holder would be expected to contribute general duties including to a duty radiology system, hot reporting and cold reporting which combines both special interest and general reporting.

Radiologists undertake ultrasound lists with specialist and some general examinations.

The post holder would be expected to undertake to minor interventional procedures including procedures related to their special interest and those required in particular for urgent in-patients including chest aspiration/drainage, ascites drainage.

Informal enquires and visits are welcomed and strongly encouraged. Please see contact information below.

Working for our organisation

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve. 

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

Trust Values

Essential criteria

Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued. Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative.

Education, Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

FRCR BM, BS or equivalent GMC registered qualifications Full GMC Registration

Desirable criteria

Subspecialist Fellowship training and advantage

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience reporting general CT, MRI, ultrasound, fluoroscopy and plain film Ability to act and duty Radiologist MDT experience

Desirable criteria

Ability to perform minor interventional procedure

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Good communication skills Ability to work as part of a team Ability to conduct an MDT Good IT skills Good organisational skills Ability to perform image guided radiology including aspiration and drainage for on call and urgent cases Ability to undertake and organise audit of practice Knowledge related to governance in radiology including discrepancy review

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Full GMC Registration with licence to practice Ability to travel between sites

PPE requirements:  Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful  at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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