Job description

The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences seeks to appoint a Chair of Interventional Radiology and Honorary Consultant at King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.    

 

The post-holder will be responsible for academic and strategic leadership in Interventional Radiology, and will support the Head of Departments of Cancer Imaging, and Surgical and Interventional Engineering and Head of School in ensuring the Department and School executes excellence across all its activities. 

 

The role holder is expected:  

•        To have an international reputation in interventional radiology, wide interventional radiology clinical experience; and to have demonstrated a track record with research, education and scholarship in interventional radiology.  

•        To develop a new interventional radiology research programme at King’s, complementing and supporting activities of other Departments within the School in particular, SIE. 

•        To contribute to teaching and assessments at King’s. 

•        To contribute to the School’s ambition to excel in education, research, international and knowledge transfer activities, encouraging and fostering collaboration, and ensuring consistency of practice and process.  

•        To foster a stimulating, innovative and inclusive cultural environment across the Department enabling students and staff to thrive and develop. 

 

This role represents an opportunity for the holder to develop further management, leadership skills and experience.

 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract   

This is a full-time post.

 

Key responsibilities

•        Provide academic and strategic leadership for Interventional Radiology  

•        Academic activity– teaching and research, proportional to academic time in job plan (up to 50%) 

•        Clinical activities - provision of the Interventional Radiology service including subspecialty diagnostic reporting, and the development of new services, if appropriate to the candidate’s skillset.  

•        Clinical governance – participation in the Directorate and Interventional Radiology’s systems, including clinical audit, incident reporting, clinical outcome analysis, guidelines and protocol development.   

•        MDM attendance or cover 

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria  

1.     Full GMC registration with licence to practice; on GMC Specialist Register 

2.     FRCR or an equivalent qualification  

3.     Comprehensive clinical experience in vascular and non-vascular Interventional Radiology as well as relevant Diagnostic Radiology.  

4.     Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team 

5.     Senior leadership or management experience, including developing and motivating staff.  

6.     Commitment to leading and supporting research 

7.     Commitment to undergraduate and post graduate teaching and training  

8.     Publications and presentations at national/international meetings in the field of interventional radiology 

 

Desirable criteria 

1.     MD or PhD 

2.     EBIR (European Board of Interventional Radiology) 

3.     Track record of successful research grant applications 

 
 

Further information

School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences  

The appointee will join the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences.   

 

The School is highly collaborative with the aim of innovating and improving healthcare through advanced engineering. We host the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering; London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare; King’s Technology Evaluation Centre and The PET Centre.   

 

The appointee will be affiliated with the Departments of Cancer Imaging and Surgical and Interventional Engineering within the School.  

 
 

Further information on duties of the post  :

All KCL employed clinical academics will be expected to maintain academic output (e.g. teaching hours, research outputs, involvement in grant applications) proportional to academic time in the job plan and will be eligible for REF submission.  

 

Teaching

•        Teach on undergraduate or postgraduate courses relevant to the appointee’s expertise

•        Assist with course assessments, as required, including attendance at Examiners’ meetings

•        Supervise and train research students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

 

Research

•        Provide research leadership within the research field of the appointee

•        Undertake internationally leading research and submit research for publication, so as to contribute to the School’s research exercise framework and the further advancement of the discipline/profession

•        Raise funding through peer reviewed grant applications to support a substantial programme of research.

•        Develop and strengthen links with others in the appointee’s area of expertise and with external bodies to promote the research  

 

Administration

•        Carry out any administrative duties assigned by the Head of School/Faculty

•        Represent the School on College and University Committees, as required

 

Professional activities

•        Undertake appropriate professional duties, such as serving on the scientific committees, editorial boards of journals, and involvement in professional bodies.

 

Clinical duties

•        Contribute to the provision of interventional radiology services to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and to also include: 

•        Diagnosis and treatment of patients of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.

•        Clinical responsibility for the patients, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.

•        Diagnosis and treatment of patients occupying accommodation made available under Sections 58, 65 and 66 of the National Health Service Act 1977, in so far as such patients have not made private arrangements for such treatment under Section 65(2) of the Act.

 

The geographical distribution and allocation of time between various activities will be open to some adjustment in discussion with the Clinical Director and consultant colleagues but will contain the elements outlined in the job plan. 

 

Clinical governance

•        Take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management.  They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their annual appraisal.  

 

Clinical management

•        Contribute to the management and development of their clinical service.  Additional clinical management roles will be recognised in the consultant job plan.   

 

Appraisal

•        Required to undertake annual appraisal.