Job overview

The jobs are for a General Cross-sectional Radiologist with Subspecialist interest to compliment the department. The appropriate clinical skills and knowledge will be expected.

The post holder(s) will join the other radiologists sharing the provision for general on-call service out of hours. CT reporting is outsourced overnight 7 days a week (8pm-8am weekdays and 5pm-9am weekends/bank holidays). Currently our Radiology Doctors have the facility to undertake home reporting with dedicated AGFA workstations and VR dictation facilities provided for all current and future Radiologists.

The timetable of Radiologists commitments is regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the changing needs of the Trust, service and staff. A timetable will be allocated to the appointee according to their skillset and the needs of the department.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake a reasonable or allocated share of the routine/urgent reporting (MRI, CT and plain films) and performing fluoroscopic studies and ultrasound. 

• To provide advice to clinical staff in the Trust and local community on imaging procedures and to participate in vetting of requests.
• To provide professional supervision of Radiographers, Sonographers and Junior Radiology Specialist Registrars.
• To participate and deliver at local Multidisciplinary Team Meetings as appropriate with sub-specialty interests.

• Remote reporting where required

The appointed consultant would be expected to contribute to the on-going service improvement programme developing:

• Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
• Cost Improvement programme (CIP)
• Implementing evidence based new ways of working when necessary

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and personal specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• FRCR
• Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) at time of interview
• Entry on the GMC specialist register in Clinical Radiology or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Training) at the time of interview and hold a licence to practice
• Meets the criteria set out in the Specialist generic capabilities framework –detailed below.

Desirable criteria

• Other professional qualification or higher degree e.g., in medical education, clinical research or management.

Professional Values & Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework (or equivalent for dentists).
• Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences i.e., knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
• Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
• Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and independent/ autonomous practitioner. (All senior doctors/dentists (including consultants and GPs) work independently/autonomously to a level of defined competencies, as agreed within local clinical governance frameworks.)
• Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
• Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
• Respects patients’ dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, e.g., using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
• Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent; ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
• Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
• Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity.

Desirable criteria

• Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to their specialty.

Leadership & Team working

Essential criteria

• Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex, or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
• Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams – promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
• Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
• Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and outcomes – appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
• Critically appraises performance of self, colleagues or peers and systems to enhance performance and support development.
• Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.

Patient Safety & Quality Improvement

Essential criteria

• Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
• Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
• Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
• Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
• Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice
• Evaluates and audits own and others’ clinical practice and acts on the findings.
• Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
• Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
• Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents, or complaints and implements appropriate changes
• Engages with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups

Essential criteria

• Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identifying, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action.
• Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.

Education & Training

Essential criteria

• Critically assesses own learning needs and ensures a personal development plan reflects both clinical practice and the relevant generic capabilities to lead and develop services.
• Promotes and participates in individual and team learning; supporting the educational needs of individuals and teams for uni-professional, multidisciplinary and interprofessional learning.
• Identifies and creates safe and supportive working and learning environments.
• Can act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach, or mentor for medical and non-medical practitioners.
• Creates effective learning opportunities and provides developmental feedback, both verbally and in writing, to learners and doctors/dentists in training as required by the role.
• Plans and provides effective teaching and training activities as required by the role
• Understands how to raise concerns about the behaviour or performance of any learner who is under their clinical supervision (leadership).
• Takes part in patient education.

Research & Scholarship

Essential criteria

• Keeps up to date with current research and best practice in the individual’s specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection.
• Locates and uses clinical guidelines appropriately.
• Communicates and interprets research evidence in a meaningful way for patients to support shared decision-making.

Desirable criteria

• Critically appraises and understands the relevance of the literature, conducting literature searches and reviews; disseminates best practice including from quality improvement projects.
• Works towards identifying the need for further research to strengthen the evidence base or where there are gaps in knowledge, networking with teams within and outside the organisation

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.