Job title:
Consultant Radiologist - Specialist Interest - Lancaster.

Job description:
Come and join our friendly, enthusiastic and dynamic department on the doorstep of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. Enjoy a four day working week and 2.5 SPA on appointment, living in the most beautiful scenery England has to offer and enjoying affordable houses, fantastic state schools while only being 2 ½ hours from London, Glasgow or Edinburgh, and an hour from Manchester. If you want to achieve a great work/life balance with a professionally satisfying job using new equipment while living in one of the safest, least congested and most beautiful parts of the country then come and check us out. We are looking for a General Radiologist with a specialist interest - the sub speciality is flexible to fit in with the needs of the Trust and the applicants interests and we would rather appoint a strong applicant than having a particular requirement for any specific subspecialty. We invite you to join an established team of 13 Radiologists in providing a comprehensive diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Service for the population of North Lancashire and South Cumbria. We all contribute to the general workload of the department, including CT, US, MRI and plain film reporting and participate in the on call rota (1:16). We outsource on call work from 10 pm to provide a more palatable and sustainable working pattern. We have good administrative support, highly integrated voice recognition (Dragon 11 Medical with HSS CRIS) and have an active programme to refresh equipment. (Three new CT scanners, two new MR scanners and 9 new USS machines in the last four years with replacement PACS coming in Summer 2016.) Medical Students from Lancaster Medical School receive the whole of their education, academic and clinical, in Cumbria and North Lancashire following the Liverpool undergraduate medical curriculum. The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is the lead NHS organisation and takes responsibility throughout the five years of the degree for the provision of acute practice placements. In addition to time spent at UHMBT students spend around a third of their clinical time in the community. Primary care placements are based in practices across Cumbria and North Lancashire, and their mental health placements are provided by North Lancashire Primary Care Trust and the Lancashire Care NHS Trust. We are a training site for Specialist Trainees in Radiology as part of the North West School of Radiology and the Trust provides the majority of clinical attachments for students at Lancaster Medical School. There are ample opportunities to be involved in teaching if you wish. You must have full GMC registration with a licence to practice and be eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of obtaining your CCT at the time of interview. This Trust is happy to consider flexible working or extended days to deliver more flexible working patterns and provide a desirable work life balance. Remote reporting is available for on call and we are keen have recently completed a successful trial of home reporting for elective work which we hope to expand once PACS is upgraded. Interviews will be held Friday 22nd April Interview expenses will be paid from point of entry to the UK. We welcome informal discussions and visits. In the first instance please contact Dr Robin Proctor, Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Lead robin.proctor (at) mbht.nhs.uk or Mrs Debbie Crawford, Imaging Services Manager. debbie.crawford (at) mbht.nhs.uk Telephone Radiology Secretaries 01524 516285. PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL .The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and operate a No Smoking Policy.Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficie

Employer Name: UK Recruitment

Form of contact: Recruiter

Job short description: Nursing associate professionals

Country: United Kingdom

Region: Lancashire

Contract duration: Permanent

Contract type: Full time

Source of job offer:
Department for Work and Pensions, Public Employment Services, United Kingdom

How to apply: Other - see free text

Salary currency: GBP

Salary period: Monthly