Job summary
Applications are invited for a Consultant Radiologist to join a friendly, forward-thinking team of 30 Consultant Radiologists at the Royal United Hospital Bath.

This post is for a Consultant Radiologist with specialist interest in Non-Vascular Interventional Radiology (10 PAs).

This post will help meet the increase in demand for interventional and diagnostic radiology services and to help us establish and provide an interventional oncology service.

The post is full time but anyone wishing to work part time is also encouraged to apply. The post includes participation in the IR on-call rota (participation in the diagnostic on-call rota is optional). Home PACS links are available.

Candidates are encouraged to visit the hospital and can make arrangements through contacting the Clinical Lead: Dr Gary Cross (gary.cross@nhs.net) or Dr Joseph Keighley, Consultant Interventional Radiologist (joseph.keighley@nhs.net).

Main duties of the job
This is a replacement post following retirement for a substantive Consultant Interventional Radiologist.

The candidate must be able to provide a range of non-vascular interventional radiology procedures and ideally will be competent in haemorrhage control. This role also demands a good level of diagnostic radiology competence and another specialist area of interest is encouraged but not essential. The post holder will contribute to the general radiology work of the department in conjunction with the other radiologists all of whom perform regular sessions in general radiology.

The case mix in interventional radiology at the RUH predominantly comes from our busy Urology, Gastroenterology and Surgical departments and from a wide range of oncological services. Approximately 1300 IR procedures are performed per year. Specialist nurses and radiographers undertake some vascular access in addition to 3 established IR consultants. With this new appointment we will provide a 1:5 IR on call service (weekends 0800-1800 only) and our aim is to establish an interventional oncology practice providing thermal ablation and some elective embolisation. We have links with North Bristol NHS Trust who provide tertiary level IR services.

About us
At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• FRCR
• Entry on the GMC specialist register, or within 6 months of proposed CCT date

Knowledge and experience

• Current practice and ability appropriate to a DGH environment
• Fully motivated in contributing to the work of the department and in maintaining a high standard of personal development
• Completion of recognised interventional radiology training programme

Desirable

• Non-IR diagnostic subspecialty (e.g. GI, GU) will be supported within job plan

Values

• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental.
• Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring.
• Helps and co-operates with colleagues
• Pro-active and takes responsibility
• Willing to learn, open to change
• Motivated to make a difference
• Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work.

Teaching Experience

• Able to support multidisciplinary teaching and subspecialty training

Desirable

• Experience of organising teaching and training

Research Experience

• Interest in participating in departmental audit and research
• Evidence of prior audit and research work

Desirable

• Ability to organise research

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).