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This Post is pending Royal College Approval

Applications are welcomed for the post of Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

We are seeking a driven and dynamic colleague to join our established interventional radiology (IR) team at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The successful candidate will contribute to the further development of an already comprehensive vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology service, including the 1 in 7 IR on-call service, while also supporting diagnostic imaging and multidisciplinary care.

This post offers the opportunity to work within a large, collaborative Radiology department with strong links to regional training programmes and an expanding IR service.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust operates within the Wessex Vascular Network, is a Level 2 Liver Centre, and has a catchment population of around 700,000, although the Wessex Kidney Centre, which comprises renal dialysis and transplant services and is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, casts a wider net with a population of over 2 million falling under this service.

PHU is in partnership with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust which itself serves a population of 140,000, resulting in closer collaboration of services between the two Trusts.  Portsmouth hosts the East branch of the Wessex Radiology training scheme and in 2024 the Portsmouth medical school opened.

This ambitious department provides an increasing range of vascular and non-vascular interventional procedures.

Recent service developments over the past 5 years include:

• TIPSS service
• Ablation services (liver and lung)
• Prostate artery embolisation (PAE)
• Increasing central venous stenting experience for complex vascular access cases in co-ordination with the Guys and Thomas IR team.

Planned future development includes additional interventional oncology services, including tumour cryoablation, as well as low-flow vascular malformation sclerotherapy/embolisation, and MSK embolisation.

Applicants with experience in these areas are welcomed but this is not essential. The department supports consultants wishing to develop new procedural services or areas of interest.

The department currently actively participates in the PAVE II (fistuloplasty), MAGIC Embo (lower GI embolisation), and REACT-AVB (TIPSS) studies and is very supportive of consultants developing research interests and presenting work nationally and internationally.

Vascular Interventions

A day-case vascular angiography service including:

• Visceral angiography
• Iliac interventions
• Femoropopliteal procedures
• Below-knee interventions, including retrograde angioplasty with pedal access.

Note that all major vascular procedures, including hybrid interventions and aortic work, are undertaken at Southampton as the regional centre of the Wessex Vascular Network.

Renal and Vascular Access Services

The Wessex Kidney Centre is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital.

The IR team works closely with nephrology and transplant services to provide renal and vascular access interventions for a population of over 2 million people across the south coast of England.

Non-vascular Interventions

These include:

• Ultrasound and CT-guided biopsies
• Image-guided drainage procedures
• Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG)
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and biliary stenting
• TIPSS
• Liver embolisation
• Liver and lung ablation
• Colonic stenting
• Nephrostomy insertion
• Ureteric stenting
• Urological rendezvous procedures
• Prostate artery embolisation
• Uterine fibroid embolisation

A weekly half-day general anaesthetic interventional list is available for complex procedures.

Emergency IR

Out-of-hours work is varied but predominantly includes:

• Nephrostomy insertion
• Image-guided drainage
• Acute embolisation procedures

Prospective candidates must be able to perform these procedures independently.

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Job Plan 

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
• Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights
• Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists, or equivalent. 
• Subspecialty experience in genitourinary imaging

Desirable

• Management course or experience.
• Fellowship level training in genitourinary imaging.
• Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable, significant and ongoing experience in GU radiology with evidence of significant subspecialist training, including competence in a broad range of ultrasound, MRI, CT including biopsies.
• General Diagnostic Radiology skills to support local requirements for acute general radiology service weekday time and on call/ in and working at weekend.
• Understanding of clinical risk management.

• Evidence of teaching medical, radiographic and nursing staff.

Desirable

• Fellowship in Uroradiology.
• Interventional Uroradiology experience including image-guided biopsies and some fluoroscopic procedures.

Skills

Essential

Professional skills of high standard in Clinical Radiology.

• Demonstrable basic management skills.
• Excellent time management.
• Computer literacy.

Desirable

• Appropriate and relevant publications in peer reviewed journals; presentations at national or international meetings.
• Evidence of clinical research training and significant involvement in research projects.
• Advanced computer skills.
• Knowledge of the principles of service redesign.

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
• Knowledge and use of evidence-based practice
• IT skills
• Effective, confident presentation ability
• Experience in and outside speciality

Other

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Publications
• Prizes and honours
• Logical thinking, problem solving and decision making
• Demonstrable experience and ability in teaching, both formally and informally

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

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