Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Key details
Location
Site: North Tyneside General Hospital
Address: Rake Lane
Town: North Shields
Postcode: NE29 8NH
Major / Minor Region: Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 10 sessions per week (other patterns can be discussed at interview)
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Specialty
Main area: Radiology
Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint General Radiologists (Consultant Radiologists / Specialty Doctors) with a special interest in Breast Radiology, Uroradiology, Thoracic Radiology, neuroradiology or Paediatric radiology. Candidates will be considered for a fixed term or substantive post.
We are one of the country’s top performing NHS Foundation Trusts, looking after the wellbeing of around half a million people across Northumberland and North Tyneside – one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in England. Recent CQC inspection rated Northumbria Healthcare Trust as outstanding overall.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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The post holder will be joining a team of 17 whole time equivalent Consultants who provide radiological services to our patients supported by 8 whole time speciality Registrars. This is further supported by reporting radiographers and sonographers.
The on-call commitment is currently 1 in 18 for weekday evenings across the trust and one in every 9 weekends. (Weekends usually split between 2 consultants). Overnight between 8.00pm and 8.00am will be directly referred to a Teleradiology company. The local consultant being second on call.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking excellent Clinicians who thrive in the busy environment of a Radiology Department, providing our consultant of session which allows other clinical specialists direct contact with a radiologist.
Radiology at the Trust
We have plain film, CT and MRI (provided by InHealth) at our 4 main sites, The Northumbria specialist hospital and the 3 General hospitals, plus smaller radiology at community sites to support the minor injury units.
The Trust has an active Teaching role and the post holder would be expected to have a modest role in the education of medical students and doctors in training.
We have a Research and Development department and research and clinical audit is encouraged within the radiology department working with other specialities to explore new technologies and patient care linking with radiology.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register (Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview)
* FRCR (Fellow Royal College of Radiologist) or equivalent
* Full GMC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Fellowship training in Subspecialty of interest
* Formal training in Clinical Supervision / train the trainers
Experience
Essential criteria
* Clinical training and experience in the relevant Subspecialty
* Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required to obtain UK CCT
Desirable criteria
* Experience of Audit Management
* Experience of teaching basic radiology to undergraduates
* Experience of Supervising StR’s
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Dr Mark Twemlow
Job title: Clinical Lead in Radiology
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 1
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