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Consultant Radiologist with Thoracic and/or Cardiothoracic Interest

Job details
Posting date: 02 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 October 2024
Location: Manchester, M13 9WL
Company: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6490989/349-CSS-6490989

Summary

A Vacancy at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.


Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is delighted to advertisesubstantive Consultant Radiologist posts with a specialist interest in Thoracic/Cardiothoracic imagingto join our existing motivated and dynamic team across this large, developing and aspirational Trust. The posts are within the Adults’ Radiology Directorate within the Division of Imaging.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of over 50 Consultant Radiologists in Adults’ Radiology providing a full range of imaging services to the local population and tertiary level services across Greater Manchester and beyond. Adults’ Radiology is the largest department within the Division of Imaging, and our Consultant team provides a full range of general and specialist imaging for Adult patients across our 3 Acute and 2 non-acute hospital sites.

If you are interested in joining our world class team see the additional documents section for external links to detailed information about our team and what MFT and Manchester has to offer.JOIN OUR TEAM
Subspecialty

The specialist duties of the post are to support the wide-ranging flagship thoracic services at Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT). The successful applicant will be expected to work with our respiratory and cardiac services across all our major sites including Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe, and North Manchester General Hospital.

MFT is the regional thoracic hub and offers a wide range of regional thoracic services including:
• Regional Mesothelioma and ILD services
• Heart and Lung Transplant Centre
• National Aspergillus Centre
• Lung Health Check Programme offering a community-based screening service to North Manchester and Tameside patients to detect early lung cancer.
• Thoracic surgical services
• Regional ECMO and cardiac services
• regional infectious disease unit at NMGH

MFT has established the award-winning thoracic oncology ‘Rapid’ pathway across delivering a hot CT reporting service to patients suspected of lung cancer. The Wythenshawe site also serves as the regional lung cancer surgical hub and has developed an outstanding lung biopsy/thoracic interventional service. The Trusts supports complex thoracic work throughout the conurbation and beyond.
Acute & On-Call Radiology

This comes with 1PA commitment to support acute work and 0.5 PA to support radiology On-call.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of over £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Sep 2024

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