Consultant Radiologist with an interest in Breast Imaging Oxford, England
Job description
Providing breast services to OUH. The post-holder will be based primarily at the Churchill Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.
The post holder will support Breast MDTs, one stop symptomatic clinics, breast screening, breast biopsies and localisations.
The post-holder’s duties will be to provide expert radiology services for the diagnosis and management of breast disease. They will work as part of a team, with four consultants already in post and will be a contributing radiologist for the breast multidisciplinary team meeting and the quarterly breast clinical meetings. The post-holder will be based primarily at the Churchill Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the post-holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students and training junior doctors, radiology trainees and radiographers. It is expected that this will be an integral
part of everyday clinical activity.
The post holder’s contribution to teaching, training and
research will be included in the regular job plan review and the Oxford Deanery is keen to remunerate these activities. Consultants involved in Medical Student teaching can receive an honorary Clinical Lectureship from the University. The Oxford Rotational Training Scheme in Radiology provides full and comprehensive training for junior radiology medical staff. There are formal courses for the Part I and Part II FRCR
examinations and all consultant radiologists are expected to contribute to these courses.
During their training, registrars also obtain district general hospital experience, usually at three of the following: Wexham Park Hospital, Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Stoke Mandeville
Hospital in Aylesbury and Milton Keynes General Hospital Radiology is identified as a core subject in medical student training and is taught as a thread throughout the clinical course. Radiology is also one of the optional elective subjects for final year medical students. All consultant radiologists are involved in teaching these students.
Individual Responsibilities
Clinical Radiology at the Oxford University Hospital is provided on four sites; Churchill site, Horton Site, John Radcliffe Site and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site. General radiology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, CT, MRI, angiography and interventional radiology are carried out on both the Churchill and the John Radcliffe sites. The Oxford Breast Imaging Centre (OBIC) is situated at the Churchill site, as well as cancer services, elective surgery and transplant and renal services. The John Radcliffe Site encompasses the Oxford Children’s Hospital as well as neuroradiology, cardiac and vascular services, and the Major Trauma
Centre.
The Horton Hospital provides accident and emergency services and acute medical services to the North Oxfordshire population as well as providing elective outpatient imaging facilities. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre provides specialist musculoskeletal services within Oxford and is a Regional Sarcoma Centre, and provides imaging support for the Major Trauma Centre.
The Radiology Directorate is made up of six clinical service units (Churchill radiology, John Radcliffe radiology including children’s radiology, Neuroradiology, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre radiology, Horton radiology, and Breast Screening). Each clinical unit has a Clinical Lead who is responsible to the Clinical Directorate and through him/her to a Divisional Director and to the Chief Executive. In addition, there are 7 modality lead radiographers (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Breast Imaging, General Radiography and Dexa, Fluoroscopy and Intervention, Horton/ISTC and communities with responsibility for PACS and RIS Liaison), supported by clinical modality leads. The modality lead radiographers and have site responsibility under 2 Clinical Service Unit Managers (JR/WW and CH, NOC, Horton/ISTC and communities), who are responsible to the Operational Service Manager. These individuals meet together as the Radiology Directorate Executive once a month.
Clinical Governance
The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust and external accrediting bodies. Additional SPA will be available to support governance roles.
Personal and Professional Development
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and
Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs.
Management
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, or developments requiring additional
resources must have prior agreement with the Trust. He/she will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of his/her patients, and the running of his/her clinical department under the direction of the lead clinician and/or directorate chair.
All consultant Radiologists are expected to participate in some way at some time in the management arrangements of the Clinical Directorate. There are opportunities to take part in Management and Leadership training within the Trust. Additional SPA will be available to support
management activities.
