Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (N/A)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 214-CSTO25-7330026
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Salary
- pro rata
- Closing
- 23/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Radiologist
Consultant
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Locum Radiology Consultant. Any subspecialty interest is welcomed.
The successful candidate will join a Radiology Department at an exciting time of rapid growth and service development.
The candidate will provide general reporting for acute and cold cases and participate in the on-call rota. There is scope to bring or develop a further sub-specialty interest to complement existing expertise within the main Radiology Department.
The candidate will be welcomed into a well organised department providing a wide range of services both locally and across the region. We work collaboratively and supportively together and are always looking to improve the care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
- To provide a comprehensive, high quality imaging service to the Trust.
- Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Participate in the development of the service.
- Identify safeguarding issues and take appropriate action.
- To comply with Trust Health and Safety policies and maintain a safe and healthy environment for all.
- To have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection control practice.
Teaching
- To provide clinical and educational supervision for doctors in training within the department.
- To assist in the professional supervision and management of junior medical staff.
- To organise and participate in teaching, examination and accreditation duties for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity.
Quality Improvement
- Participate in clinical audit, clinical governance and in CPD.
- To initiate and be involved in agreed projects.
- To implement audit and research findings as appropriate.
- The post holder will be encouraged to pursue their research interests.
Policy & Planning
- Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines.
- Review and develop policies for clinical practice and effectiveness.
- Participate in strategic planning for the service
Management & Audit
- Participate in the management service by being an active member of the Division.
- Attend the audit, governance and department meetings and help to implement the Trust's policy on clinical governance.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a whole-time post comprising 10 PAs per week (1.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) including a current on-call allowance of 1.5PA, which may be subject to change following diary exercises.
An annual review of duties including fixed commitments will take place with the Head of Service as part of the Job Plan process.
The person appointed will take their equal share in providing emergency cover and will be required to cover for colleagues during periods of absence.
All successful candidates will be provided with a home workstation. This will have access to the EMRAD network and would be eligible to join the network’s insourcing programme.
A hybrid work patten between home and onsite is encouraged with an average of one full day day spent working from home per week.
On Call
On call availability is currently 3% intensity supplement.
On call is currently a 1 in 13 rota with prospective cover. Weekdays are supported by teleradiology between the hours of 2000 and 0800. Weekend on call is supported by teleradiology between the hours of 1800 and 0800. Two radiology registrars support the on call on a 1 in 5 rota.
Residence
The appointees will be expected to maintain their private residences in contact with public telephone services and to reside within distance by road from the hospitals which comprises the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that they are able to meet clinical commitments when on call.
Supporting Professional Activities (SPA)
The list of activities included in SPA is not limited to activities to support continuing professional development (CPD), but includes mandatory training, appraisal, revalidation, audit, job planning, departmental and personal administration, governance, education and training etc. All of the SPA activities will be required to support revalidation and professional development.
The nature, timing and site of all duties (Direct Clinical Care and SPA) may change and will be reviewed annually as part of the job planning exercise.
The expected activities of the job plan should be flexible within the weekly rota to accommodate departmental working arrangements. Mutual agreement will be reached between the appointee and their Service Director, with regard to scheduling, including SPA.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Yutaro Higashi
Job title
Acting Clinical Chair
Email address
Telephone number
07917 733636
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council
- MBBS/ MBChB or equivalent FRCR (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience or training in general radiology including CT and MRI
- Subspecialty interest in Head and Neck imaging with experience and expertise in thyroid ultrasound, FNA and other guided head and neck procedures
Teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching
Management & administrative experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work well with colleagues at all levels as part of a team
Research
Essential criteria
- Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Other
Essential criteria
- Communication skills – to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Good organisational skills
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national levels
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- MBBS/ MBChB or equivalent
- FRCR (or equivalent)
- Entry on Specialist Register or CCT within 6 months of date of interview
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience or training in general radiology including CT and MRI
- Subspecialty interest in Head and Neck imaging with experience and expertise in thyroid ultrasound, FNA and other guided head and neck procedures.
Teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching
Management & Administrative experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work well with colleagues at all levels as part of a team
Research
Essential criteria
- Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Other
Essential criteria
- Communication skills – to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
- Leadership skills appropriate to participating in and leading a multidisciplinary team
- Good organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national levels
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yutaro Higashi
- Job title
- Head of Service for Radiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917733636
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