Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
This is a newly created post designed for candidates with strong training in cross-sectional radiology, with a specialist interest in neuro and cardiac imaging. We are delighted to invite applications for this exciting opportunity to join the radiology team at Kingston Hospital.
This role offers the chance to contribute to a dynamic and evolving service, supporting growing demand in key areas while working within a collaborative and forward-thinking department.
The current job plan supports a full-time 10 PA substantive consultant post at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. Applications are welcomed from candidates wishing to work less than full time or those interested in job-sharing arrangements.
Applicants should have broad experience in general radiology, with specialist interests in cardiac imaging and neuroradiology. Competence in general CT and MRI reporting is essential, alongside the ability to contribute to relevant Cancer MDTs, participate in hot reporting, and undertake duty radiologist sessions.
It is anticipated that remote access will be available for all consultants to support home working, in line with the implementation of the regional RIS/PACS system.
It is anticipated that remote access to allow home working will be available for all consultants as the regional RIS/PACS system come online (provisionally late 2024).
The successful candidate will participate in a diagnostic on-call rota with an approximate frequency of 1 in 18.
Weekday on-call duties will be on-site from 17:00 to 20:00, supporting urgent imaging, hot reporting, and clinical queries. Weekend on-call commitments will be on-site from 08:00 to 17:00, contributing to acute service provision and maintaining timely reporting for urgent and emergency cases.
Overnight CT reporting (20:00–08:00) is currently outsourced via an external provider (4Ways). However, the on-call radiologist will remain available from home overnight to provide clinical support for urgent imaging requirements, including ultrasound and other time-critical cases where radiologist input is required.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Salary:
For applicants without prior NHS experience at the same pay band or higher, the salary will start at the lower value within the advertised range.
