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Job summary

Main area
Imaging
Grade
MN37
Contract
12 months (Fixed term contract will end September 2025.)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
290-TDPD-028
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Mary's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£ 37,068- £57,570 per annum plus London Weighting
Closing
17/05/2024 23:59

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Senior Clinical Fellow Imaging

MN37

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

 

 

 

Job overview

Fellowship in Thoracic Radiology.

Main site of activity: SMH, CXH, HH

Accountable to Dr Afshin Alavi (CD), Dr Brynmor Jones (CD), Dr Edward Barden (Head of Specialty Thoracic Radiology), Dr Samir Mahboobani (Head of Training Thoracic Radiology).

Applicants should possess FRCR or equivalent. They should have CCTd or achieved equivalent consultant competency prior to the start date of the fellowship.

ICHNT offers tertiary level services in cardiology, respiratory medicine and cardiothoracic surgery. It is a busy radiology department with 4 cardiothoracic radiology consultants, 2 thoracic radiology consultants, 3 cardiac radiologists. In addition, radiologists work closely with the imaging cardiologists at Hammersmith Hospital.

ICHNT covers a broad caseload encompassing all fields of cardiothoracic medicine/imaging. In addition, ICHNT is a specialist haematological oncology unit offering stem cell transplantation and a specialist renal unit with renal and pancreatic transplant services. These particularly vulnerable cohorts of patient’s require regular input from the respiratory medicine services based at Hammersmith Hospital.

The Trust has a busy lung oncology service which offers stereotactic ablative radiotherapy. We offer a full cohort of nuclear medicine imaging modalities.

This fellowship aims to offer advanced training in all subspecialties and across all modalities of thoracic imaging (CT/MR/US).

 

 

Main duties of the job

  • Thoracic reporting across all imaging modalities.

 

  • Leading CT guided intervention lists (lung biopsy, lung cancer localisation, complex chest drainage). US guided intervention lists are also accessible.

 

  • Participation on the rota for the various MDTs in thoracic imaging.

 

  • Timetabled management session for project work across the sector to optimise the efficiency with regards to TLHC/lung cancer screening and the onwards referral for PET and radiologically guided sampling. This will have PA support.

 

  • Optional on call working as part of our senior fellow rota (~1:6). This would be to support the first on junior radiology registrars. Services include tertiary level multi-modality imaging in hyperacute stroke and neurosurgery, vascular imaging (including for renal and pancreatic transplant assessment), Level 1 major trauma, and all areas of general radiology.

 

  • Candidates will also have the opportunity to be involved with in house quality improvement/governance projects.

 

  • Research opportunities are available in numerous areas of cutting edge clinical radiology.

 

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, and season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid-19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The purpose of this post is to provide further/advanced training to a subspecialised thoracic radiologist. This includes diagnostic and interventional training as well as opportunity to take part in management projects alongside RM Partners West London Cancer Alliance. This will give invaluable experience that will prove useful for Consultant Practice.

 

Candidates will be expected to take part in supervised reporting of all modalities in imaging with a plan to progress to more independent working.

 

Candidates will be expected to run at least one CT guided lung biopsy list with consultant support as needed.

 

Candidates will be expected to take part in a number of subspecialised thoracic radiology MDTs (Cancer, Screening review, ILD, Infectious disease etc.), with a view to leading these independently.

 

Candidates will also have the opportunity to be involved with in house quality improvement/governance projects.

 

See sample job plan below:

 

 

 

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

AM

CT Intervention

Lung Cancer MDT/reporting

ILD MDT/

Reporting

Nodule MDT/SRM/

Reporting

Duty US

PM

MDT prep/reporting

Cardiac CT

Management/

Research/

SPA

Duty reporting

CT Intervention/

reporting

 

 

Regular weekly MDTs include:

 

General respiratory MDTs for each of the three main sites (3 in total)

Infectious respiratory diseases (incorporated into the SMH general meeting above)

ILD MDTs (2 in total)

Lung cancer (once a week)

Diagnostic lung cancer/nodule MDT (once a week)

Screening review meeting (currently incorporated into the nodule MDT)

Pleural MDT (once a week)

Fungal infection MDT (once monthly)

 

On-call: option to join the fellow rota (1:6 rota). According to the wishes of the successful candidate. If he/she takes part, this would include an on-call pay supplement.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • On GMC register/ licensed Medical Practitioner
Desirable criteria
  • FRCR or equivalent

Physical requirements

Essential criteria
  • Physically capable of working as general radiologist
  • Occupational health clearance for the role specified

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Fluent English speaker. Experience of PACS/VR reporting

Flexibility

Essential criteria
  • Medical Professional level

Academic achievements including research/publications

Desirable criteria
  • • Presentations at national or international meetings
  • • Publications in peer reviewed journals
  • • Teaching qualification

Audit

Essential criteria
  • • Basic understanding of the audit process
  • • Experience in clinical audit
Desirable criteria
  • Formal management training/qulaification

Clinical skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to independently report CT/MR/US/PlainFilm in general radiology in an on call setting
  • Proficient in thoracic imaging with a view to independent practice early on
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability in US guided intervention
  • • Cardiac CT Level 2 or 3
  • • Ability to independently lead thoracic radiology MDTs

Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty

Essential criteria
  • Experience in wide range of imaging modalities and specialties
  • Pre-CCT Subspecialty training in MSK imaging
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a level 1 trauma centre

Team Work

Essential criteria
  • Medical Professional level, excellent team working experience and skills

Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty

Essential criteria
  • Need to have CCT (or equivalent) in radiology and have achieved all core skills for thoracic radiology

Language

Essential criteria
  • Fluent English speaker

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Samir Mahboobani
Job title
Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07967398615
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