Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a candidate interested in a consultant radiologist post to join our team at Barking Havering, and Redbridge University Hospital Trust.

We are looking for an enthusiastic consultant to join our well established, dedicated and supportive radiology team to serve a population of 750,000.

This is a twelve-month fixed term post to cover radiology with an interest in urology and gynaecology.

Main duties of the job

Locum Consultant Radiologist with Interest in Urology & Gynaecology Imaging

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled radiologist with a subspecialty interest in Urology and Gynaecology to join our dynamic team.

The successful candidate is expected to report a range of general cross-sectional imaging and will play a key role in the imaging and reporting of MRI prostate scans using the Likert scoring system, ensuring high-quality and standardized assessment for patients undergoing prostate cancer evaluation.

Proficiency in MRI gynaecology imaging, including the assessment of pelvic malignancies, endometriosis, and fibroids, is essential. It is desirable that the candidate has experience in performing transvaginal/ transanal ultrasound. We have a dedicated interventional radiology team to which provides urology and gynaecological interventions.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive and innovative environment, contributing to the advancement of imaging services in Urology and Gynaecology.

We perform approximately 2200 MRI Prostate and 2600 MRI pelvis for gynaecology, about 8800 CT scans for urology, 8600 urinary tract ultrasound and 12000 ultrasound pelvis per year. The ultrasound service is predominantly sonographer laden and radiologists have a few ultrasound sessions. These numbers prove the importance of radiology services we provide to our patients for urology and gynaecology imaging.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.