Employer: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Great Western Hospital
Town: Swindon
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59
Consultant
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
This is a unique opportunity to transform and improve the health of our local populations through a nationally directed initiative – the ‘Targeted Lung Health Check’ programme. Nationally funding is to be provided over the next 4 years via the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance. The aim of the project is to provide a lung health check assessment (with low dose CT where clinically indicated) with a view to diagnosing lung cancer at an early stage. CCGs have been selected nationally based on deprivation, presentation of late stage and rates of lung cancer mortality.
Patients registered in Swindon practices between the ages of 55 to 74 with a smoking history are invited to attend for the lung health check. There have been earlier pilots across the country which will provide a wealth of knowledge to learn from.
This work will give the position holder an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to and lead a different kind of work to identify asymptomatic people, providing early diagnosis of both lung cancer and other lung diseases and then planning appropriate follow-up.
Main duties of the job
The Responsible Radiologist for the Targeted Lung Health Checks programme is a key role working with patients, clinicians, and other partners, to implement the Targeted Lung Health Checks across Swindon. It is an integral part of the overall programme governance structure with specific responsibility for Low-dose CT scans in individual cases. They will ensure:
* Ensure findings are communicated for action and any urgent referral either direct to the Responsible Clinician or via other pre-specified urgent pathways.
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service: We will put our patients first.
Teamwork: We will work together.
Ambition: We will aspire to provide the best service.
Respect: We will act with integrity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Role / Responsibilities:
* To provide medical leadership, clinical support and subject matter expertise on low dose CT scans that are undertaken through sub-contracted imaging service delivery.
* Ensure the low dose CT element of the programme is implemented as outlined in the national Standard Protocol.
* Communicate findings for action and any urgent referral either direct to the Responsible Clinician or via other pre-specified urgent pathways.
* Provide expert knowledge and opinion in situations where radiology reports or quality assurance reads are below expected levels of quality and give cause for concern from the referring clinician, commissioners or staff from within the trust’s diagnostic services.
* Provide support and professional knowledge of Radiation protection and all UK Ionising radiation legislation (IRR 1999 & IRMER 2000), contributing at the trust’s radiation protection committee.
* Work collaboratively with local health care providers and working in partnership to support pathway development and design, modelling strong collaborative behaviours that focus on improving patient outcomes.
* Attend the Programme Steering Board and meetings with varied internal and external key stakeholders to facilitate the delivery of the strategic objectives.
* Input to development and implementation of local protocols which may impact service delivery e.g. referrals for incidental findings.
* Attend a Low Dose-CT MDT, or pulmonary nodule MDT.
Policy and service development:
* Develop plans and seize opportunities, mitigate threats and deliver strategic objectives.
* Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments, to assist in the thinking and definition of strategy discussions.
* Develop and maintain relationships with leading organisations relevant to the delivery of the work stream.
Knowledge and experience:
There should be a named secondary care respiratory radiologist who is responsible for low dose CT report data entry, and for ensuring findings are communicated for action and any urgent referral either direct to the Responsible Clinician or via other pre-specified urgent pathways.
They must possess an in depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following area(s):
* National cancer priorities, specifically as relates to lung, early diagnosis evidence base, and the wider cancer screening agenda.
* Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to lung cancer early detection trials or demonstration project.
* Working at a Senior Clinician level.
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development / Member of relevant professional body.
Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Proven leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC registration.
* FRCR or equivalent professional registration.
Experience
* Proven experience as a Consultant Radiologist within a Diagnostic Radiology service (NHS +/- Independent/Private sector).
* Demonstration of undertaking professional CPD and clinical audit / research within Radiology.
* Experience of Quality Assurance programme for radiology.
* Management of medical staff.
* Experience of contract management and negotiation.
* Previous experience of the Independent Sector/Private Radiology environment.
Thank you for expressing interest in this role. For further employer guidance, please review the attached supplementary applicant information.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Certificate of Sponsorship:
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications, subject to eligibility of the role for a skilled worker visa and salary requirements. Not all roles in the Trust are eligible for sponsorship.
Eligibility for this role requires:
* Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
* Qualification of the eligibility sponsorship criteria.
Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.
Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £21.50 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £49.50 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.
We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.
Upon acceptance of a job offer, your information will be transferred to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records System. All communication regarding your application will be conducted via email; please ensure to check your junk/spam folders as emails may occasionally be filtered there.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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