Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust

 Consultant Radiologist with interest in Interventional Radiology

10 PA’s

Whipps Cross Hospital

 Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest and most respected teaching hospital trusts in Britain as well as being the home of London’s Air Ambulance Service. The Trust incorporates St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The Royal London and Mile End Hospitals, Newham University Hospital and Whipps Cross University Hospital.

 This post is for a general Consultant Radiologist at Barts Health NHS Trust with an interest in Interventional Radiology. We are looking for a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our existing team of radiologists to help deliver the service and to support the active training programme. The post will be primarily based at Whipps Cross University Hospital though cross-site working can be arranged.

Main duties of the job

This post is for a general Consultant Radiologist at Barts Health NHS Trust with an interest in Interventional Radiology. We are looking for a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our existing team of radiologists to help deliver the service and to support the active training programme. The post will be primarily based at Whipps Cross University Hospital though cross-site working can be arranged.

 The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate general radiology skills including US, CT, plain film reporting and MRI, as well as having a specialist interest in non-vascular Interventional Radiology.  A state of the art IR room has recently been commissioned and will be up and running by the time of the appointment, in addition there are plans to build a new hospital and the successful applicant would have the opportunity to develop local IR services. 

Applicants should possess the FRCR or equivalent. There will be a non-resident diagnostic on-call commitment – currently 1:15 (with scans performed between 8:30pm – 8:30am outsourced) with remote reporting capability. There is no IR service provision after 1730 on weekdays and on weekends, urgent cases transferred to RLH.

Research and teaching activities are encouraged and supported by the active academic department and there is a highly successful training programme with rotating interventional radiology registrars.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.