Job summary
- Main area
- Head & Neck Oncology Imaging
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA contract)
- Job ref
- 196-CON1064
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Radiology Department, St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- Westminster
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum excl. LZ, pro rata if applicable
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/10/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Head & Neck Radiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Radiology Services is seeking to appoint a new full time (10 PA) Consultant Head and Neck Radiologist. The post is permanent and is required to meet increasing demand across the Head and Neck Cancer Pathway.
AAC Interview Date 22/10/2025.
*Job Description is pending from the Royal College*
Main duties of the job
Radiology Services is seeking to appoint a new full time Consultant Radiologist (8 DCC /2 SPA) with an interest in head and neck and oncology Imaging. This post is required to meet increasing demand for head and neck ultrasound and diagnostic radiology services. We are seeking to appoint a subspecialty trained radiologist who is enthusiastic to join our team and be actively involved in the full range of adult diagnostic radiology. It is expected that the post holder will be involved in the full range of adult diagnostic radiology including oncological imaging and have experience in head and neck radiology.
There will be at least 2 sessions of head and neck ultrasound, 1 acute CT, 1 outpatient CT, 1 MRI Spine and 1 general US and a commitment to support oncology and acute services. The successful candidate will participate in the adult diagnostic radiology on call and should be able to support the Radiology Department’s strong culture of teaching and service improvement.
Working for our organisation
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide High Quality Care to Patients
· The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice.
· To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
· To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
· To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
Research, Teaching and Training
· Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
· To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
· To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training posts
Performance Management
· To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
· Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
· Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
· Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
· Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
· Audit of radiology reports with contribution to and attendance of discrepancy meetings
Medical Staff Management
· To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
· To ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments
· To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
· To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
· To be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.
Governance
· To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
· Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
· To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
· Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
· To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
· To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
· To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Strategy and Business Planning
· To participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.
· To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.
Leadership and Team Working
· To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
· To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.
· To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
· To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
· Adhere to Trust/Departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
- On GMC Specialist Register or within six months of attaining CCT.
- FRCR or equivalent
Clinical Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
- Completion of specialist radiology training programme
- Subspecialty training in Head & Neck Radiology
- Independent performance and reporting of general CT< MRI and X-ray imaging plus Biopsy
Desirable criteria
- Experience in participating and leading multidisciplinary meetings
- Experience of Head & Neck Radiology
- Experience of Independent MDM work
Audit Management and IT
Essential criteria
- Understand the role of clinical governance and audit in a successful department.
- Management and IT skills.
- Understanding of principles of audit.
Desirable criteria
- Specific audits in Head & Neck Oncology
Research, Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Understand the importance of research and its role in imaging.
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
Desirable criteria
- Track record of published research in peer reviewed publications.
- Innovative and enthusiastic approach to imaging research
Leadership / Management skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to motivate a team.
- Communication; Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
- Interpersonal Skills; Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Interpersonal Skills; Ability to work as part of a team
- Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
- Finance; Knowledge of finance and budgets.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience of Transformation and Change Management within the NHS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Steve Connor
- Job title
- H&N Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071887188
- Additional information
Due to operational challenges we may not be able to speak to all candidates prior to shortlisting, but will be able to discuss the role with shortlisted candidates prior to an interview.
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