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Consultant Radiologist with Head and Neck interest
Closed for applications on: 26-Feb-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 26-Feb-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Manchester Royal Infirmary
- Address
- Oxford Road
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (On-call - Cat A 3%, 1 in 14)
Salary
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (YC72)
Specialty
- Main area
- Consultant Radiologist with interest in Neuroradiology
Job overview
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is delighted to advertise one substantive Consultant Radiologist posts with a specialist interest in Head and Neck Imaging to join our existing motivated and dynamic team across this large, developing and aspirational Trust. This post is within the Adults’ Radiology Directorate within the Division of Imaging.
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Subspecialty
The department of Radiology is excited to offer a Consultant Radiology post with a specialist interest in Head and Neck imaging to join our vibrant and forward-thinking team. This post will be based at MFT with sessions available on any of our Adult radiology sites including North Manchester General Hospital, Wythenshawe hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary.
This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant with MFT offering regional tertiary level services including:
- Tertiary level ENT & Maxillofacial surgical services at both Oxford Road & South campuses, which are currently merging to form a single cross-trust team.
- One of the UKs largest Cochlear implant services at our Oxford Road campus
- Tertiary level Eye services at our Oxford Road campus (Royal Eye Hospital).
- Tertiary level Dental services at our Oxford Road campus (University of Manchester Dental Hospital).
- Head and Neck cancer services with imminent plans to merge to MDTs
- Adult medical services at both campuses, including Endocrinology (which includes thyroid and parathyroid work)
- Regional MDTs & services including Neurofibromatosis 1 & 2 services.
Acute & On-Call Radiology
This comes with 1PA of general Acute and 0.5 PA of On-call.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration OR eligibility for full registration, with specialist registration for Radiology (inc within 6 months of CCT)
- Medical Degree (MBChB or equivalent)
- Fellowship of the Royall College of Radiologist OR International Equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Other higher degree or diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of subspecialty training in Head & Neck Radiology
Desirable criteria
- Fellowship Training in Head & Neck Imaging and Intervention
Clinical and Technical Skills
Essential criteria
- Wide experience of all aspects of H&N radiology modalities including CT, MRI, USS & fluoroscopy.
- Experience of participating in tertiary level H&N MDTs and familiarity of post-surgical imaging and complications
- H&N interventional techniques including FNA and core biopsy
Desirable criteria
- Experience of neuroradiology reporting in particular skull base
- Experience or aspiration to learn PET-CT
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent team working skills
- Fluent English speaker
Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of audit participation and service quality improvement projects
Research
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of research design, protocols and desire to be involved with research projects
Desirable criteria
- Peer review publications
Motivation
Essential criteria
- Highly motivated with an appetite to lead and make changes to services
Personality
Essential criteria
- Good team player to work with staff within the service and liaise with clinical users of the service
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rishi Sethi
- Job title
- Divisional Clinical Director, Division of Imaging
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 276 4185
- Additional information
We warmly invite potential applicants to contact our team if they require any further information or wish to arrange a visit to meet us and see the hospital. We are also happy to meet via Teams video chat.
If you wish to arrange a visit please contact
- Lisa Grant, clinical director PA, on 0161-276-4185 or [email protected]
There is also further information available within the attached job description PDF.
No longer accepting applications
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