Consultant Interventional Radiologist: Sponsorship Available

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Interventional Radiology

You are invited to join our small team based at Broomfield Hospital offering a broad range of vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology procedures which include but are not limited to; lung microwave ablations, peripheral angioplasty/stenting, embolisation, vascular access procedures, urological/biliary stenting, gastrostomy and GI stenting.

The team support a supra-regional multidisciplinary service for the treatment of adults and children with vascular malformations is based at Broomfield Hospital. Interventional radiology and plastic surgery lead the vascular malformation team with shared outpatient clinics. Sclerotherapy, embolisation and hybrid IR/surgical procedures are performed within IR.

Out of hours work is delivered at Basildon Hospital on a 1:12 rotation. Job plans are developed to reflect this commitment. You may wish to explore what could be available to you to advance your potential within this role, or to arrange an informal social visit to our location to meet our dedicated, professional and diverse colleagues.

Informal discussion to be held with Muhammad Hanif; Clinical Lead IR; Broomfield; Ali Zaman, Clinical Director MSE IR

Approaches from agencies are respectfully declined.

Main duties of the job

  • Contribute to development of the general and specialist imaging service to support the Trust in ensuring provision of high quality diagnostic support throughout the week including sessions in ultrasound & cross-sectional imaging.
  • Work flexibly with colleagues to support the timely management of emergencies and inpatients
  • Undertake an appropriate share of the on-call rota for interventional radiology, this will involve working at Basildon Hospital.
  • Participate in multi-disciplinary clinical meetings (MDT).
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of clinical protocols.
  • Ensure that standards are maintained and developed through clinical audit, evidence- based research and appraisal.
  • Be familiar with the College curricula for junior doctor training and contribute to their training requirements, including tutorials, on-the-job teaching, mentoring, appraisal and assessment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GMC registration or meets criteria

Desirable

  • Further postgraduate qualification ATLS certificate

Professional Experience

Essential

  • CCST/CCT in Diagnostic Radiology; OR Registration on GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of achieving CCST/CCT at the time of interview.
  • Interest and experience in supporting juniors in training
  • Active role in governance
  • Qualification in Interventional Radiology specialist training

Communication

Essential

  • Competent in all relevant IT packages, including Microsoft and patient administration systems and PACS.

Desirable

  • Evidence of presentations.

Audit and Clinical Governance

Desirable

  • Evidence of audit participation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 November 2026

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