MANCHESTERUNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
THE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL RADIOLOGY Children’s & Clinical Scientific Services Divisions
JOB DESCRIPTION Consultant Thoracic Radiologist
INTRODUCTION Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic Consultant Radiologist with a subspecialty interest in thoracic imaging to join our existing team across this large, developing and aspirational trust. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a team of 11 radiologists with thoracic and cardiac subspecialty expertise working across the largest Trust in the UK, providing thoracic imaging expertise to the local population and tertiary level care throughout Greater Manchester and beyond. The post will be based predominantly at Wythenshawe Hospital, however there will be opportunity to work across site, and whilst advertised as a thoracic radiology post, subspecialty interest in cardiac imaging or another subspecialty as a secondary interest would be supported.
THE POST The specialist duties of the post are to support the wide ranging tertiary referral level thoracic radiology service, including provision of subspecialist expert review of imaging for tertiary referral services. These include the regional thoracic oncology and mesothelioma service, severe asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis services, and tertiary cardiothoracic surgical services. There is also supraregional heart and lung transplant service, adult ECMO and the National Aspergillus Centre. The successful candidate will also support plain film and CT reporting of subspecialist thoracic cases by other radiology colleagues, both consultant and specialist registrars. Support of the thoracic imaging section of the radiology department requires ability to undertake interventional and biopsy procedures for patients requiring sampling of lung and pleural lesions, including those referred via the regional ‘Difficult Biopsy Service’, with on site training offered to increase subspecialty thoracic intervention skills if required. There is well established multidisciplinary team working within the award-winning RAPID hub programme for lung cancer assessment, and the appointee would be expected to be part of this service to deliver the ‘hot’ radiological reporting for suspected lung cancer which have made the pathway so successful. The first community based, NHS Commissioned UK early detection of lung cancer through targeted screening commenced in April 2019 and the successful candidate will be part of the team providing reporting of screening studies, lesional sampling, MDT review and diagnostic support after potential cancer diagnoses. The successful candidate will also contribute to the general work of the department, both acute and elective, including on call, along with the other Consultant Radiologists. An evidenced interest in teaching will be especially useful but the post graduate certificate in education, though desirable, is not essential. With excellent academic links to the University of Manchester and research into cancer, airways disease and infectious diseases both within the trust and through links in regional and national collaborations, a drive to be involved with and push forward thoracic radiology research in the trust and region is welcomed. There will be involvement in research for oncology and benign thoracic disease research studies, including through regular reporting of research scans, with support for initiation of radiology based projects in thoracic and cardiac research.
Commitment to various thoracic MDTs will be required, with regular cover of twice weekly thoracic oncology MDTs, including the regional mesothelioma MDT, and cross cover for benign thoracic disease MDTs with existing colleagues, for example interstitial lung disease, transplant, ECMO, emphysema and asthma MDTs. The appointee will also be expected to take part in regular departmental audit and research activities.
The successful candidate will be required to work effectively and positively within the team in moving forward respiratory medicine and surgical services from the radiological perspective. Other team members in Wythenshawe hospital include the respiratory medicine team of over 50 respiratory physicians, many of whom have academic roles with University of Manchester, 5 dedicated thoracic surgeons offering regional and national thoracic surgical services, 6 clinical and medical oncologists undertaking thoracic malignancy therapies, 4 infectious diseases consultants supporting the National Aspergillus Centre, and 9 specialist cardiothoracic intensive care consultants working in cardiothoracic intensive care in one of only 5 national ECMO services.
THE TRUST
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) achieved Foundation Status in October 2017 with the merger of two large organisations to include:
Manchester Royal Infirmary Wythenshawe Hospital Clinical Services* Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Saint Mary’s Hospital Trafford General Hospital Altrincham Hospital University Dental Hospital of Manchester Withington Community Hospital Community Services North Manchester General Hospital**
* The Division of Imaging is part of the ‘Virtual’ Clinical Support Services Hospital which allows CSS managerial and financial autonomy to shape service delivery. ** Acquisition expected April 2021 Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT) is developing as a major cross city health campus and works in partnership with a number of other NHS organisations. This creates a new and exciting opportunity for the future running and development of services that we offer our patients and will also allow for closer working relationships across Manchester, leading to opportunities for service development and research between the departments. The Trust provides secondary and tertiary services for a population in the North West of England of up to 5 million, with its rich
cultural and sporting heritage and excellent road, rail and air links to the rest of the UK, Europe and internationally.
The Wythenshawe site (previously University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust) is situated 10 miles south of the city centre, and provides many specialist tertiary services for Greater Manchester and the whole of the North West including Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Complex Respiratory services, Vascular services, Burns Care and Plastic Surgery, Cancer Services and Breast Care as well as District General Hospital services for its local communities. It supports quaternary level Heart and Lung Transplantation service and is one of 5 adult ECMO centres in the UK. The National Aspergillus Service is based at Wythenshawe.
The capital investment programme at Wythenshawe and Withington Hospitals has supported the ambition to develop as a major health campus. In 2007 we opened the £15M Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, Europe’s largest breast cancer prevention facility. The £20M expansion in our North West Heart Centre, opened in May 2008, provides a state- of-the-art intensive care and investigation facilities, in July 2008 we commissioned a cardiac MRI scanner and the Board approved a further investment of £8M to expand our regional cystic fibrosis service. As a consequence of the changes outlined in Making It Better relating to maternity and children’s services, the Board approved a £20.3m investment for a substantial investment in expanding our maternity services in March 2009. A state of the art bronchoscopy suite was completed in 201%, used in conjunction with the Thoracic Oncology directorate support for lung biopsy patient care and the RAPID diagnostic lung pathway has supported a dedicated US for urgent intervention for these patients situated here. There is current planning being undertaken to transform the whole Wythenshawe site with complete hospital redesign currently being proposed to take place over a 15 year period. The Oxford Road site is located 3km south of Manchester City Centre. Four hospitals are based on the Oxford Road site (previously Central Manchester Foundations Trust: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital St Mary’s Hospital for Women and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital). The site has seen completion of a £450m New Hospital Development (NHD) with the rebuilding of the Royal Eye Hospital, St Marys Hospital for Women and new Medical wards of the Manchester Royal Infirmary in addition to the opening of the Manchester Children’s Hospital. Manchester Royal Infirmary provides all major adult medical specialities including Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Respiratory and Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrinology. Surgical units include Orthopaedics, Hepato-Biliary, and Colorectal, Upper GI, Urology, Renal transplantation, cardiothoracic surgery, ENT and vascular surgery and has recently been designated as a complex vascular centre. The Manchester Heart Centre sits within CMFT and is a major provider of cardiac care with over 10,000 new patients a year not only from Greater Manchester and the wider North West region. The centre provides specialist imaging support for adult congenital heart disease and specialist care for cardiac failure and aortic valve disease. It houses 5 cardiac catheterisation labs and was opened in 2006 as part of the NHD.
Divisional Structure Dr Rishi Sethi Clinical Head of Division & Adult’s Radiology Clinical Director Catherine Walsh Divisional Director Dr Dominic St Leger Deputy Clinical Director and Clinical site lead for WTWA Dr Lois Macdonald Deputy Clinical Director and Clinical site lead for ORC Dr Dare Seriki Quality and Safety Clinical Lead Dr Rob Hawkes Children’s Radiology Clinical Director Dr Yit Lim Breast Imaging Clinical Director Dr Parthi Arumugam Nuclear Medicine Clinical Director Stephanie Carney Directorate Manager for WTWA Sarah Franks Directorate Manager for ORC
The Directorate of Adult’s Clinical Radiology Radiology services across all sites are currently delivered by a new single large directorate within the Division of Imaging with regional and national aspirations of excellence. The directorate is working towards ISAS accreditation which should be achieved over the next 2 years. The principle Radiology Departments within the Radiology Directorate are as follows:
Wythenshawe and Withington sites: The department is sited in several locations across the site and contains the following facilities. Radiology Acute (A) Block (next to the Emergency Department): This part of the department is used predominantly for acute and emergency work. It houses 2 CT scanners used for acute and interventional procedures, Siemens Somatom Perspective 64 slice and GE Revolution 64 slice. There is a Siemens AERA 1.5T MR Scanner with a large bore capacity, the widest in the trust. 3 Interventional Rooms are used for non-vascular intervention, including GU and GU procedures and also ERCP, serviced by a 4 bed interventional Recovery Area. These are commencing replacement within the next year. There are 2 Ultrasound Rooms with Siemens. CR and DR rooms are used for plain film radiography, with new portable radiography facilities in the recently built ED department. The majority of offices of Consultants, Directorate Manager, and Admin & Clerical staff are situated here. Radiology Trainees’ room adjacent to the Radiology Seminar Room, for training and clinical governance meetings. The main reporting large PACS Reporting Area, for cold reporting, is situated next to the acute duty room, for in patient and urgent clinicoradiological interaction. The offices for lead Radiographers for MR/CT and a Staff Room are also in this area.
Radiology ‘F’ Block This area is predominantly for outpatient imaging. There is a Siemens Emotion 16 slice CT scanner. The nuclear medicine department is also situated here, with a SPECT scanner currently being installed.
There are also a fluoroscopy room, 1 ultrasound room and an IVU Room with 2 tables. The majority of cases are in plain film rooms for outpatients, including a DR Chest Room, which is being replaced with digital subtraction technology, for bone removal, in May 2019. There are also offices for consultants and consultant radiographers, administration and clerical staff, Radiology Outpatient Booking Office, student radiographers’ resource room, offices for lead radiographers for US and Plain Film, and staff room.
Adjacent to F block is the Heart and Lung Cancer which houses Siemens AVANTO 1.5T and SKYRA 3T MRI scanners and Toshiba Aquillion 128 gated CT scanner, dedicated for cardiac and cardiovascular imaging and managed under the Heart and Lung Division of Wythenshawe Hospital.
Maternity & Women’s’ Health Department 4 Ultrasound rooms undertaking EPC and routine maternity scanning as well as outpatient gynaecological imaging.
Withington Community Hospital Outpatient services including a Plain Film room, Fluoroscopy room and room for Ultrasound. There is also a mobile MR Scanner for outpatient imaging.
Nightingale Centre & Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre The Nightingale Centre opened in July 2007. It is equipped with two full field GE Essentials, one Siemens full field unit with biopsy facility, one Hologic Tomosynthesis Unit (with tomosynthesis biopsy facility), and one Giotto full field digital unit with prone table biopsy facility. In addition, there are 6 full field GE Essentials installed to deliver primary screening. The digital service is supported by the SECTRA PACS system. There are four Siemens Acuson ultrasound machines in the department, together with an EnCor and an ATEC vacuum assisted biopsy units. The purpose built facility also houses clinic assessment rooms and dedicated mammographic reporting area as well as offices for Consultants, Admin & Clerical Offices and a seminar room for MDT meetings and training.
Oxford Road Site: Manchester Royal Infirmary. This provides the main adult radiology services for the Trust, there are over 20 examination rooms. The department was originally opened in 1990 and enlarged in 1995 and 2003. In November 2014 a 16 bedded recovery and day case area opened allowing for patient admission under the direct care of Radiology unit and space for radiology clinics. A new MR unit will open this year and plans are underway to redesign the interface with the Accident and Emergency department incorporating an additional CT scanner with A and E adjacent to the x -ray department. Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital This department was opened in June 2009 as part of the new Children’s Hospital. It is an 11 room department and has a full range of facilities including a 1.5T MR system, 128
Slice CT and a dedicated paediatric gamma camera. A business case is in progress to add a further intraoperative MR to the portfolio. St Marys Hospital This department was also part of the New Hospital Development and opened in July 2009. There are 7 Ultrasound rooms providing a comprehensive obstetric and gynaecological service including the Regional Foetal Management Unit.
Trafford General Hospital and Altrincham General Sites: Situated 12km to the east of the Oxford Road site this department has 3 general plain film radiography rooms, a 4 room ultrasound department, 64 slice CT and a 1.5T MR system.
The Department of Nuclear Medicine is a separate Directorate and there are 3 Nuclear Medicine physicians having close links with Radiology; the department has a significant role in supporting radiology training. The Manchester Heart Centre is based at Manchester Royal infirmary. It houses 5 cardiac catheterisation labs and was opened in 2006 as part of the New Hospital Development. The Dental Hospital is located in the University. There is a Department of Dental Radiology which provides the majority of Dental imaging. However patients attend Manchester Royal Infirmary for MR and CT examinations. The Welcome Trust located in the CMFT campus offers research opportunity. Clinical and research Cardiac MR scans are done on the 3T MR system located here. There are currently over 70 Consultants working within the MFT trust Hospitals: Date Speciality Hours Name joined Dr G Ahmad 2020 MSK Radiologist FT Dr F Ali 2018 Abdomino-pelvic/Interventional Radiology FT Dr Y Al-Radhi 2020 Vascular Radiologist FT Dr A Alonso 2019 Thoracic Radiology FT Dr Y Alwan 2014 Uroradiology FT Dr H Alwan Walker 2014 GI/Intervention Radiology FT Dr G Ananthakrishnan 2012 Vascular Radiology FT Dr D Awad 2014 Cross Sectional/ GI Radiology PT Dr T Barrow 2017 Abdomino-pelvic Radiology PT Prof Bhatti 2002 Musculoskeletal Radiology PT Dr R Braham 2010 Musculoskeletal/Neuroradiology FT Dr S Butterfield 2002 Vascular Radiology FT Dr M Bydder 2008 Breast Radiology PT Dr S Byott 2016 Vascular Radiology FT Dr R Dixon 2014 Paediatric Radiology PT Dr R Duerden 2014 Thoracic Radiology PT Dr R Dwivedi 2017 Neuroradiology/ Head & Neck Radiology SLA
Dr M Efstathiou 2018 Cardiaothoracic Radiology FT Dr R Filobbos 2014 Abdomino-pelvic Radiology SLA Dr S Gadde 2010 Breast Radiology PT Dr N Gerova 2019 Thoracic Radiology FT Dr V Godamgaonkar 2011 Paediatric Radiology PT Dr M Greaves 1998 Cardiothoracic Radiology FT Dr A Hattab 2016 Uroradiology FT Dr R Hawkes 2014 Paediatric Radiology FT Dr R Hodgson 2013 Musculoskeletal Radiology PT Dr J Howard 2017 Musculoskeletal/ Nuclear Medicine FT Dr E Hurley 1998 Head & Neck Radiology FT Dr A Imran 2020 Thoracic Radiologist FT Prof K Irion 2016 Thoracic Radiology FT Dr A Jain 2001 Nuclear Medicine/General Radiology FT Dr N Kakani 2015 Vascular/Hepato-biliary Radiology FT Dr D Karunaratne 2011 Cardiac & Thoracic Radiology FT Dr. A Kirwadi 2014 Musculoskeletal Radiology FT Dr P Konala 2016 Musculoskeletal Radiology FT Dr S Kulkarni 2017 Musculoskeletal Radiology FT Dr T Kulkarni 2012 Breast/Head & Neck Radiology FT Dr E Lake 2019 Vascular/Interventional Radiology FT Dr S Liong 2003? Gastro/Interventional Radiology FT Dr Y Lim 2007 Uroradiology/Breast FT Dr S H Lee 1990 GI/Interventional Radiology FT Dr L MacDonald 2015 Uro/ Gynae radiology PT Dr R Magennis 2010 GI Radiology PT Dr A Maniyar 2016 Paediatric Radiology FT Dr Mubashar 2005 Musculoskeletal Radiology FT Dr V Nadarajah 2014 Gastro/Interventional Radiology FT Dr P Norburn 1989 Musculoskeletal Radiology FT Dr N Omar 2016 Uroradiology FT Dr S O’Shea 2001 GI/Interventional Radiology FT Dr J Pavaine 2016 Paediatric neuroradiology FT Dr G Potter 2011 Neuroradiology SLA Dr Rajashanker 2005 GI/Gynae Radiology FT Dr V Rudralingam 2007 Gastro/Interventional FT Dr Calvin Soh 2018 Neuro Radiology FT
Dr D Seriki 2008 Vascular Radiology FT Dr R Sethi 2011 GI/Gynae/Interventional Radiology FT Dr A Sharman 2014 Thoracic Radiology FT Dr E Smith 2000 Thoracic/Head & Neck Radiology PT Prof S Stivaros 2009 Paediatric Neuroradiology PT Dr D St Leger 2018 Head & Neck Radiology FT Dr M Stokes 2015 Cardiothoracic Radiology FT Prof S Sukumar 1995 GI/Gynae Radiology FT Dr V Tang 2008 Paediatric Radiology FT Dr O Thomas 2013 Neuroradiology/ Head & Neck Radiology SLA Dr D Thompson 2014 Vascular Radiology FT Dr J Tuck 2004 Uroradiology FT Dr R W Whitehouse 1991 Musculoskeletal Radiology PT Dr M Wilson 1990 Breast Radiology PT Dr N B Wright 2003 Paediatric Radiology FT
There is a network link to Salford Royal Trust which is the regional neurosciences centre and Neuroradiologists visit the department on a regular basis to report neuroradiological procedures and participate in opththalmology, neurofibromatosis and ENT MDT meetings. With reconfiguration of the healthcare provision throughout Greater Manchester there is a move to more collaborative working between the trusts and cross-site working between MFT and North Manchester General Hospital is encouraged, with plans for NMGH to merge with the trust in late 2019. Combined PACS procurement is currently in the process of tendering to allow a more versatile PACS system to integrate the current Greater Manchester systems.
Office and Secretarial The appointee will be allocated an office space and will be allocated a specific secretary for personal use. They will be provided with a personal computer and internet connection according to the Trust policy.
Information Technology The appointee will be encouraged to pro-actively seek to work with the Trust’s information technology resources, to exploit benefits in delivering improved patient care. Remote access to the radiology CRIS and web based PACS is provided from home by the use of a personal VDI access code. The trust is fully equipped with an integrated RIS (HSS) and PACS (GE) system. A voice recognition dictation system (Dragon Dictate) is in place. There is a well-developed Trust ordercomms system which contains a radiology request module (ICE) and two EPRs Allscripts (Wythenshawe) and Chaemeleon (ORC). The Trust is planning to introduce a new EPR (Epic) in 2022. Regionally GM has collaboratively procured a new Sectra PACS system which will link all GM providers together. Implementation has commenced and will be rolled out over the next 18 months.
Equipment At Wythenshawe, in 2015 the new Phillips CT scanner was installed, which has allowed better fluoroscopic interventional procedures to be undertaken. Instillation was undertaken in 2016 of 2 new hybrid theatres, one for sole use by vascular radiology, and the other for complex surgical- interventional procedures. There has been recent redesign of acute accident and emergency services with an expanded and enhanced ED department, with in department new DR rooms. There is current installation of a SPECT CT scanner in the nuclear medicine department to support on site nuclear medicine imaging. New DR machinery in the dedicated chest plain film room and replacement of one of the 3 interventional rooms are about to be undertaken.
The Main Department at Manchester Royal Infirmary was opened in 1990 and expanded in 1995 to provide the majority of adult radiological services to the Royal Infirmary. A further expansion of the main department which houses a new radiographic room in addition to CT and MR opened in April 2003. There is a building programme which has commenced for the installation of an additional 1.5T MR system. Two hybrid theatres opened in July 2014 based within the theatre complex for interventional cases, in particular EVARs and TAVIs. 3T PET MR is situated close to the Nuclear medicine department and is also utilised by the department. A rolling annual capital replacement programme for this equipment is in place.
Teaching The Trust currently provides training places for 18 Specialist registrar trainees in radiology and is one of the key centres in the largest radiology training scheme in the country. The Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies for the North West Region, based at the Medical School is Professor Jackie Hayden. The candidate will, along with all the other Consultant staff, play a role in SpR training and education within the Trust. The North West Training scheme has a comprehensive programme of lectures and tutorials and participation in these would be encouraged. MFT is the largest undergraduate teaching trust in the city. Students work within the Radiology Directorates during special study modules, research options and problem based learning sessions.
Departmental Workload In 2018 the activity at Wythenshawe and Withington was; Modality Examinations Angiography 1533 CT 43146 Fluoroscopy inc endoscopy and non-vascular intervention 6130 MRI 17200 Nuclear Medicine 1042 Plain film radiography 132080 Ultrasound including obstetrics 46405
Job Plan
Categorisation Day Time Location Work No. of PAs Code 0900-1300 Wythenshawe Lung Screening C8 1.0
1300-1700 Wythenshawe SPA S7 0.5 Monday
1500-1700 Wythenshawe Reporting C8 0.5
0800-1000 Wythenshawe MDT Prep (1/4) C7 0.5
1000-1300 Wythenshawe Reporting C8 0.75 Tuesday 1300-1500 Wythenshawe Thoracic MDT (1/4) C7 0.125
1300-1500 Wythenshawe Reporting C8 0.375
0800-1100 Wythenshawe Intervention (Lung C8 0.75 Biopsy) 1100-1300 Wythenshawe SPA S7 0.5
Wednesday 1300- 1500 Wythenshawe Duty Radiologist C8 0.5
1500-1700 Wythenshawe Reporting/MDT Prep C7/8 0.5 (1/4)
0900-1100 Wythenshawe Lung Cancer MDT C8 0.5
Thursday 1100-1500 Wythenshawe Reporting C8 1.0
0900-1100 Wythenshawe USS C8 0.5
1100-1300 Wythenshawe SPA S7 0.5 Friday
1300-1700 Wythenshawe Lung Screening C8 1.5
1000-1500 Wythenshawe Resident on call (1 in C8 0.125 Saturday 14) Wythenshawe Resident on call (1 in C8 0.125 Sunday 1000-1500 14)
Additional MRI Newly Appointed S7 agreed activity Consultant Development to be worked Scheme (0.5PA in lieu of flexibly. clinical activity) On Call MRI Unpredictable C1 0.25 CLINICAL PAs 8.5 SPAs 1.5 TOTAL 10.0
A proposed job plan is demonstrated. Whilst it is intended that the number and type of activities are reflected in this plan, the timing of sessions may be changed and will be agreed with the Clinical Director at the time of appointment. The job will be based at Wythenshawe, but sessions at MRI, Trafford General Hospital, and Altrincham General may be incorporated on discussion with the successful candidate.
The appointee will be contracted for 10 Programmed Activities as per the new Consultant Contract, 8.5 related to Direct Clinical Care and 1.5 for Core Supporting Activities. Part-time or job share working is possible. The appointee would be expected to cover for colleagues annual, study and sick leave.
New Consultant Development Programme All new Consultants to CMFT are required to participate in the New Consultant Development programme. This programme is designed to aid the transition from trainee to Consultant through an iterative and interactive programme running over the course of a year. The programme is delivered through a monthly day long session which replaces other activity on that day, including clinical activity. This equates to an additional 0.5 SPA over the year, with a corresponding decrease in DCC activity.
Research There are excellent facilities and opportunities for research within the Trust and a separate Research and Development Directorate has been established. The Region commissions research in line with local and national priorities; applications for research funding are encouraged. The successful candidate would be encouraged to be involved in research activity and to support postgraduate research internally and between radiology and other Directorates. Appropriately qualified and experienced candidates may be offered honorary academic status within the University of Manchester. The vision of MFT is to become the leading integrated health, teaching, research and innovation campus in the NHS. Within this context our aim over the next 5 years is to ensure that MFT is one of the top 5 NHS Trusts for research and innovation in the U.K. Our capacity for translation of research and innovation into improved patient care will be internationally recognised, both in its own right and in partnership with Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (http://www.mahsc.ac.uk/). We have a number of important assets to help us achieve this ambitious goal: We have just completed a new hospital development, co-located with the University of Manchester to create the largest biomedical research campus in Europe.
The Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (http://www.cmft.nhs.uk/brc/biomedical-research-centre.aspx), a partnership with the University of Manchester, is one of 12 such elite centres in the UK. The Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF), purpose built for experimental medicine research and incorporating an MRI research scanner suite, is one of only 4 in the UK with both adult and paediatric facilities. The Centre for Applied Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics, a multimillion pound new development uniquely designed and built within the hospital to enable application of proteomics, metabolomics and genomics to experimental medicine. A recently opened and staffed Biobanking facility, now collecting a range of well phenotyped human tissues for research within the CMFT and across MAHSC. The largest single site clinical sciences centre in the UK. Our clinical research and innovation benefits from established partnerships with: o TrusTECH, the NHS Innovations Hub in the Northwest o MIMIT (Manchester Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology), providing solutions to unmet clinical need. o Manchester Medical Technologies Development Centre, designed to accelerate the development of new devices and diagnostics. o Greater Manchester Comprehensive Local Research Network. o Medicine for Children Research Network. o ICON Development Solutions. o Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. o Science & Technology Facilities Council at Daresbury.
These assets, coupled with a network of Clinical Division Research Leads and Research Managers enabling research throughout the organisation, and a system of internal pump priming grants, provide a first class environment for translational research in a hospital setting.
On Call The appointee will be expected to take part in the general radiology or speciality radiology on-call rota with registrar on site cover with frequency 1:14. Currently separate on call rotas are in place for vascular radiology with a separate nephrostomy intervention rota over weekends. Plans are in place to restructure the on call service with a view to a cross-site model as we move to a single department.
Experience Required The applicant should be fully registered with the GMC, possess the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists or equivalent and be on the Specialist Register or within six months of being issued with a CCT by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB). Experience of thoracic imaging is required.
Clinical Governance & Audit
The Departments of Clinical Radiology hold regular clinical governance, management and quality audit meetings in which the appointee is expected to participate. The appointee will be expected to participate in Medical Audit. The current audit lead on the Wythenshawe site is Professor S Sukumar and discrepancy and peer review lead is Dr R Magennis. Regular clinical, management, clinical audit and discrepancy meetings lead by Dr Ananthakrishnan and Dr Marie Stokes are held and audit facilitators are based on other sites.
CME The appointee is required to be on the Specialist Register of the (General Medical Council) and will be required to retain accreditation by undertaking the continued medical education required by the Royal College and GMC. Meetings of the North West Regional Radiologists and Manchester medical society, which attract CME credits, are held regularly at hospitals throughout the North West and university. The Trust is committed to supporting CME for all specialists with both time and financial support. There is a flourishing postgraduate centre in Central Manchester and the recent new Hospital Development has seen substantial investment in the Trust Education Centres
Appraisal and Revalidation The appointee will undergo yearly appraisal and mandatory training in accordance with trust regulations and be subject to Revalidation in accordance with GMC requirements.
Health and Safety The Trust has a statutory responsibility to provide and maintain a healthy and safe environment for its staff to work in. You equally have a responsibility to ensure that you do nothing to jeopardise the health and safety of either yourself or of anybody else. The Trust’s Health and Safety Policies outline your responsibilities regarding Health and Safety at Work. The post holder must not wilfully endanger him/herself or other persons while at work. Safe working practices and safety precautions must be adhered to. Protective clothing and equipment must be used where appropriate. All accidents must be reported, and the post-holder is asked to participate in accident prevention by reporting potential hazards.
Infection Control It is a requirement for all staff to comply with infection control policies and procedures as set out in the Trust infection control manual.
Security The post-holder has a responsibility to ensure the preservation of NHS property and resources.
Confidentiality The post-holder must maintain confidentiality at all times in all aspects of the work.
Equal Opportunities The Trust encourages Equal Opportunities and operates an Equal Opportunities Policy. All individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or disability are encouraged to apply for all posts advertised.
Smoking The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Visit to the Department Potential applicants are invited to contact Dr Dominic St Leger, clinical radiology lead for WTWA ([email protected]) or Dr Rishi Sethi, Clinical Director Adults Radiology - ([email protected]) Tel: Rachel Schillinger – 0161 291 6241