Locum Consultant: Interventional Radiologist
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
Applications are invited for a full time Locum Consultant post as Interventional Radiologist at Aneurin Bevan UHB. The radiology on-call service is provided in-house by first on-call SpRs with secondary support from Radiologists. A flexible job plan working, in a friendly, functional and supportive team, with an enviable procurement policy for high-end equipment are just some of the benefits of working for this University Health Board.The successful candidate will join an enthusiastic team of Consultants. This post is based at the The Grange University Hospital, but may include sessions at other Health Board sites.
Main duties of the job- To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate) a service in the specialty to the hospitals so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
- Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in your charge in liaison with consultant colleagues and for the proper functioning of the department in line with the Operational Policy and Strategic Plan (as amended from time to time).
- Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff. If appropriate the post holder will be named in the contracts of junior staff as the person responsible for overseeing their training.
- Requirement to participate in medical audit and in continuing medical education in ways which are acceptable to the ABUHB.
- Domiciliary consultations, as appropriate, to South East Wales residents or as agreed between the two parties.
- The successful candidate will participate in an on-call rota to cover the hospital(s) so designated.
- Any requirement agreed for the provision of cover for consultant colleagues’ periods of leave.
- All qualified staff have a responsibility to supervise unqualified/more junior staff and students on a day-to-day basis to ensure that patients receive appropriate care and that any untoward action is addressed.
- Other comments including specific details related to special interest (if applicable)
- Any other duties with other agencies that have been agreed with the ABHB (e.g. prison service) and which are specified below.
- Working for our organisation
It is responsible for delivering services through the Grange University Hospital delivering critical acute care, and its three enhanced local general hospitals in Newport, Abergavenny and Caerphilly, supported by five community hospitals, health centres and extensive mental health and learning disabilities facilities.
The principal place of work for this post is Royal Gwent Hospital but may also involve sessions delivered in other hospitals. The post holder will generally be expected to undertake their programmed activities at the principal place of work or other locations agreed in the Job Plan.Exceptions will include travelling between work sites and attending official meetings away from the workplace. A planned and cost-effective approach is expected and is included in the DCC sessional allocation. The post holder may be required to work at any site within the Health Board.
Those wishing to discuss the post informally in the first instance or arrange a visit to the department should contact Dr Ishan Gunatunga, Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Director, Telephone: 01633 234318, email: [email protected]
Free parking is available across all Aneurin Bevan University Health Board sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding job particulars, please see the details included in the attached job description and person specification.
This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
- Enhanced check with barred list information, including an adults barred list check
Applicants must hold full registration and a license to practice with the GMC.
Person specification
Clinical Experience
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Qualifications
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Clinical Governance
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Research
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Teaching
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Management
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Other Requirements
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If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.