A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
This post is an important part of our ongoing development of medical services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing Radiologists to provide a high standard of care across the Trust. We are seeking a locum consultant with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.
Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Radiologist with interest in nuclear medicine.The post is primarily based at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and requires a minimum commitment of 4 PAs in nuclear medicine but can attract up to 10Pas overall in Radiology/Nuclear Medicine, depending on the applicant’s skill. The successful applicant will also provide 1PA of PET-CT reporting at the Paul Strickland Imaging located in MVCC, if desired.
There has been considerable recent investment in imaging both on the Lister site and on the New QEII Hospital site with the establishment of an outpatient diagnostic unit that includes CT, MRI, and Ultrasound. The department is fully equipped with 3 MRI (1.5T Siemens, 2 x 3T Siemens) scanners, 4 Multislice CT scanners, Nuclear Medicine department, Ultrasound and digital fluoroscopy and interventional suite. The trust has also recently acquired a new SPECT-CT and successfully undertaken a full l refurbishment of the unit in Lister Hospital.
The post has arisen because of expansion in imaging services. The successful candidate will join a team of 25 radiologists to help deliver Diagnostic Imaging Services to the Trust and local commissioners.The candidate is required to have a subspecialty interest in Nuclear Medicine. We are a large teaching hospital for radiology trainees with aspirations to grow further. You will be expected to be fully engaged with the training scheme both locally within the department and more widely within the region. Therefore, any experience in teaching and training including any formal learning in teaching methods would be ideal for this position.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
• Help deliver outpatient and acute general and subspecialty imaging in the trust.
• Support the urology, gastrointestinal, oncology, paediatric, endocrinology and MSK radiology services
• Maintenance of high-quality patient centred care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical educatio
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 26 Nov 2024