Job summary
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Radiologist
YC73
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
Applications are invited for a full time locum appointment as a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist.
The post would be for 12 months commencing from September 2024 and based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, Stanmore.
Full GMC registration and licence to practise essential.
Ideally the successful candidate will have completed fellowship training in musculoskeletal radiology (or overseas equivalent) and have had a wide range of experience in musculoskeletal conditions including sarcoma.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work with the current team to provide the highest level of patient care in musculoskeletal imaging including diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal radiology and will be expected to be active in research, presentation and publication. We are seeking a candidate that works with a patient/problem-orientated approach to orthopaedic conditions including actively participating in various weekly MDT meetings as required. |
Working for our organisation
The department has 15 full time consultant radiologists.
The hospital is a leading institution of international reputation in the field of orthopaedics and is a centre of excellence for complex spinal and MSK oncological treatment. The primary base is at Brockley Hill, Stanmore Middlesex supported by Central London outpatient facilities. There are units for shoulder, foot and ankle, peripheral nerve injuries, spine, joint replacement, paediatric orthopaedic, hip, rheumatology, sarcoma and metabolic bone disease. Our Team is tight knit and work well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You would be expected to share in the general workload, including interventional and diagnostic ultrasound lists, fluoroscopically guided joint injections and biopsies, CT interventional lists, in addition to sharing in the reporting of complex orthopaedic cross-sectional and plain film imaging.
The post-holder would be expected to work ten fixed sessions which would include 1 SPA and would not be expected to participate in the on-call rota.
For full information please see the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work and communicate within a multidisciplinary team.
- A clear understanding of Risk Management
- Commitment and dedication to service requirements and developments
- Courteous, confidential, sensitive and efficient.
- Ability to communicate effectively
Desirable criteria
- Organisational diplomacy
- Sense of humour
- Leadership qualities
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- Recognised Medical degree
- Full GMC registration and licence to practise.
- FRCR (or overseas equivalent
- Entry on the Specialist Register (or entry to be within 3 months of expected CCST date).
- Musculoskeletal Radiology fellowship.
- Broad training across all the modalities of Clinical Radiology. Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate degree
- Sarcoma Experience
Analytical & Judgment Skills
Essential criteria
- Quantitative demonstration of dedicated MSK (including spinal) interventional procedural experience.
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential criteria
- A commitment to teaching and training; both postgraduate and undergraduate.
- Experience in teaching junior medical staff and medical students. A wish to develop and enhance these skills.
- Ongoing commitment to training and teaching.
Desirable criteria
- Organisation of educational courses / conferences.
IT skills
Essential criteria
- Familiarity with computerised Radiology Management Systems, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint presentation, voice recognition and PACS.
Responsibility for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable commitment to anti-discriminatory and inclusive behaviours and practices
Responsibility for Policy/Service Development
Essential criteria
- A clear understanding of maintenance/raising of standards.
- A commitment to utilising clinical audit as a tool for raising standards and evidence of recent active participation.
Responsibility for financial & physical resources
Desirable criteria
- Management or leadership experience
Responsibility for Research & Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of published musculoskeletal papers in peer reviewed journals and presentations at national / international meetings.
- Commitment to on-going publications and presentations.
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability to implement, develop and complete research projects
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Good
- Job title
- Imaging Department PA
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 909 5639
- Additional information
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