Locum Consultant Radiologist

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Locum Consultant Radiologist

The closing date is 01 February 2026

This is a locum consultant appointment for a radiologist with subspecialty training in interventional radiology. Oncological Interventional skills and or cardiovascular reporting would be a bonus.

The post will be predominately based at the Chelsea and Westminster site with sessions at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

The successful candidate will supervise interventional lists covering procedures such as US/CT guided biopsy and drainage procedures, venous access, urological and HPB intervention. There is also the possibility to perform and further develop more subspecialist work such as PCNL, embolization of prostate / uterine / testicular embolisation, paediatric AVM therapy, ablation of liver and lung lesions, MSK intervention.

At present there is no dedicated peripheral vascular intervention, however, this will change in the near future. The successful candidate may wish to pursue this. Development of new techniques will be encouraged and experience in paediatric intervention would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

The applicant should be on the Specialist register of the GMC and be a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists or equivalent.

The new appointee will be expected to participate in the IR on call rota covering the Chelsea and Westminster, Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals. On call frequency will be 1:8 weeks / year.

In addition, there may be emergency situations when attendance outside routine hours is required.

Provision of IR at the West Middlesex site is currently limited, therefore emergency cases are transferred to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. There are early plans to expand IR at West Middlesex with installation of a new IR suite in the coming years.

The job plan will include sessions dedicated to general and cross sectional reporting so it would be essential for the prospective candidate to be able to report body CT and MRI.

The 10 PA contract comprises 8.5 DCC sessions and 1.5 SPA session. This may be subject to change to accommodate any on call requirements in the near future.

The proposed job plan will be subject to change to allow for any future extended 7-day service requirement and provision of services across the entire Trust.

The successful candidate will be expected to partake in local MDT's.

Each Consultant has access to a dedicated PACS reporting station, a PC and a laptop for remote image viewing when on call.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Job responsibilities

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

• The post holder must adhere to the standards outlined by the GMC for Good Medical Practice.
• Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Demonstrate, model and encourage Trust Values at all times to all patients and staff.

Research, Teaching and Training

• Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as agreed with the Service Lead. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
• Act as a clinical supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director/Service Lead to ensure external accreditation of training post.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
• Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy.
• The Trust expects all consultants to participate fully in continuing professional development to ensure that skills and knowledge are updated in line with relevant medical developments. Consultants may apply to the study leave budget for help with associated expenses in line with the terms and conditions of their contract. In addition consultants will be expected to undertake some non-clinical training and development at the discretion of the trust management, for example, Leadership Training.

Performance Management

• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
• Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
• Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates
• Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
• Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration
• Relevant CCT or equivalent (equivalence must be confirmed by PMET/GMC by date if Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register OR eligible within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee
• Good understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council.
• Achieved Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR)
• Past record of academic achievement.
• Publications in peer reviewed journals in relevant areas.
• Experience in teaching medical trainees and other NHS professionals
• Higher Degree
• Additional related qualifications e.g. BSc, BA
• Level 3 Safeguarding Children as per intercollegiate document.
• Management Training
• Understanding of business planning and hospital contracting

Experience

• Understanding of Clinical Governance and Audit.
• Under and post graduate teaching experience
• Wide training in general, cross-sectional radiology and ultrasound
• Experience in general ultrasound
• Experience in MRI reporting
• Understanding of audit and Clinical Governance and quality control in Radiology
• Experience of Radiology service delivery within a National Health Service department
• Participation in a system of annual appraisal
• Participation in a recognised continuing medical education scheme
• Experience in Oncological intervention
• Experience in Cardiovascular imaging
• Experience in paediatric intervention

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.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

289-CS-286

Job locations

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust