Consultant Radiologist with special interest in Breast Imaging - High Wycombe - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Description

Consultant Radiologist with special interest in Breast Imaging

Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.

CONSULTANT RADIOLOGIST WITH A SUBSPECIALITY INTEREST IN BREAST IMAGING

Applications are invited for a whole time Consultant Radiologist. The successful candidate will provide imaging support to the Trust's busy Breast Imaging service and General Radiology services if desired, and will join a team of 24 Radiologists working within the Trust. This post is based at Wycombe General Hospital.

Planned AAC interview date isFriday 24th April 2026

Main duties of the job

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a General Hospital with supra-regional Plastics and Burns Service. The Trust provides acute and specialist hospital services to more than 500,000 people in Mid. and South Buckinghamshire. There are 2 acute hospitals sites at Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville as well as peripheral sites, the largest of which is situated in Amersham. The world-renowned National Spinal Injury Centre is on the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the Radiology Department provides a wide range of specialist imaging and interventional services to the Unit.

About us

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
  
• We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
  
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
  

Why work for us?

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
  
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
  
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
  

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
  
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
  
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
  

Job responsibilities

Main Duties of the Post

This post is for a Breast Radiologist. Consideration would be made for those candidates wishing to include some general radiology and negotiable on-call within the job plan.

The radiology department at BHT is highly regarded within the Trust as an approachable and innovative department. It has consistently achieved the highest score in the Oxford radiology registrars feedback in the past decade in the regional programme.

The department believes in delivering excellence through developing and supporting subspecialty radiologists and delivering access through maintaining and supporting general radiology skills in addition to supporting role extension

The post is full time (10 programmed activities) for a Consultant Radiologist with an interest in breast and cross-sectional imaging. The successful candidate will join a team of 20 Consultant Radiologists. The post holder will be based at High Wycombe Hospital but will be expected to work on other sites as required. Experience in both screening and symptomatic breast imaging is essential.

Person Specification
Other Requirements

• Full GMC Registration
  
• Ability to travel to and between sites
  

Skills, Knowledge & Attributes

• Ability to work as part of a team
  
• Ability to conduct an MDT
  
• Good IT Skills
  
• Good organisational skills
  
• Ability to perform image guided radiology including aspiration and drainage for on call and urgent cases.
  
• Ability to undertake and organise audit of practice.
  
• Knowledge related to governance in radiology including discrepancy review.
  

Qualifications/Training

• FRCR
  
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via - CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview
  
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via - CESR or o European Community Rights (Substantive appointment only possible with full specialist register registration)
  
• Subspecialist Fellowship training
  

Experience

• Ability to perform screening assessment clinics independently
  
• Ability to run symptomatic breast clinics independently
  
• Ability to undertake breast interventional procedures including ultrasound and stereo biopsies and wire localisations.
  
• Experience reporting general CT, MRI, ultrasound, fluoroscopy and plain film.
  

Trust 'CARE' Values

• Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships.
  
• Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
  
• Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
  
• Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. xpwpeyx Enables others to take the initiative
  

Qualifications and Training

• FRCR
  
• Subspecialist Fellowship training
  
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via o CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview
  
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via o CESR or o European Community Rights (Substantive appointment only possible with full specialist register registration)
  

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.