Consultant Diagnostic Neuroradiologist

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

There are currently 14 Consultant Neuroradiologists working within the Department of Neuroradiology, which is part of the wider Directorate of Neurosciences which houses Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neurophysiology and the national highly specialised Mitochondrial Medicine Service, providing a comprehensive, specialist service to a population of approximately 2.4 million across the North East and Cumbria.

Based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle City Centre, this role is a substantive full time job with on-call, but we are happy to consider applicants wishing to work less than full time with a pro rata share of the on-call.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Main duties of the job

This post is based at the Neurosciences Centre. The post-holder will contribute to the daytime diagnostic neuroradiology service and take a share of the diagnostic neuroradiology on call rota. To cover the needs of the service, a subspecialist interest in neuro-oncology and/or low pressure imaging and intervention is desirable.

The appointee will have the chance to participate in teaching and supervision of the radiology and neuroradiology trainees.

The appointee will be expected to undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of the Department of Neuroradiology in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director.

The department provides out-of-hours on-call service and in-hours attending service to provide urgent reports and opinions.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and directorate, please contact Dr Philip Gonsalves on or via email at

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

• Participate in departmental work in providing neuroradiology services to our patients.
• Provide diagnostic neuroradiology services.
• Contribute to the spinal intervention service, including sub-specialised low pressure work (the latter desirable but not essential).
• Contribute to departmental MDT delivery (ideally including adult neuro-oncology MDT).
• Contribute to the departmental attending system.
• Take part in departmental diagnostic neuroradiology on-call.

Administrative:

• Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of the Department of Neuroradiology, in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director. To undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
• Become involved with the financial management of the Directorate budget - at all times looking to ensure the delivery of high quality care to agreed standards, but at the same time reviewing working practices to provide the most efficient use of resources.

Research:

The Trust welcomes and encourages research.

Teaching:

Newcastle Hospitals provides an enthusiastic training environment for radiologists, radiographers and medical students. The radiology training is delivered through the School of Radiology within the Health Education England (North-East). Training and supervision opportunities are encouraged.

Support:

The appointee will have shared office and secretarial /administrative support.

Flexibility:

In line with the Trust's core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• MBBS or other recognised equivalent medical qualification
• FRCR or a Postgraduate qualification of similar seniority
• Full GMC with a licence to practice
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• MD, PhD or equivalent in relevant field

Clinical Experience

• At least 5 years' training in clinical radiology including two years' training in neuroradiology completed at the time of appointment (please note these training requirements are essential)
• Ability to offer an expert neuroradiology opinion.
• Ability to undertake standard CT and fluoroscopy guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Experience of a (sub) specialist fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology
• Evidence of subspecialist expertise in neuro-oncology and ability to independently contribute to the neuro-oncology MDT
• Experience in interpretation of advanced imaging techniques for low pressure CSF disorders and specialised intervention techniques

Management and Administration Experience

• Management and administrative experience
• Participation in Clinical Governance.
• Experience of Clinical Leadership

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff in the clinical setting
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education
• Experience of acting as an educational supervisor to a trainee.

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature
• Publications in the last three years as first author

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit/ quality improvement
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit/ quality improvement project
• Evidence of having re-audited to assess improvement.

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's values
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.