Consultant Interventional Radiologists 10PAs

Consultant Interventional Radiologists 10PAs

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 16 February 2026

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

We are looking for candidates with a broad range of interventional training and experience, including vascular and non-vascular intervention, with a commitment to high-quality, patient-centred care.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

These are new posts, based predominantly at the Freeman Hospital with some regular commitments at Royal Victoria Infirmary, joining a team of eight other IRs at the Trust.

The successful applicant will:

• Be able to perform a wide range of interventional procedures including vascular interventions, emergency embolisation, percutaneous nephrostomy and biliary drainage.
• Have experience in complex vascular intervention including peripheral vascular disease and EVAR.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr. Philip Gonsalves via email at

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from underrepresented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

The posts have clinical commitments primarily in the Newcastle Hospitals, but with the expectation that some time may be spent supporting IR services at other centres. The post is whole time, although those wishing to work part time will also be considered.

Appropriate training in Interventional Radiology is required. You will contribute to the provision of CT and MR related to interventional radiology including acute and elective referrals and the tertiary referral caseload.

There are excellent working relationships in Newcastle with colleagues in our main referring specialties, including vascular, hepatobiliary and urology.

You will take part in an out-of-hours Interventional Radiology on-call rota for emergency work which will involve being required to return to site. This will provide IR support for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals. The scope of regional on-call service coverage may change with future reorganisations. The on-call commitment is currently classified as category A. The rota will be on a flexible 1 in 8 arrangements, with prospective cover for leave, including substituting in an emergency for absent colleagues.

Emergency working time arising from on-call is averaged amongst consultants on the rota and is included in the DCC component of the contract. There is a partially filled out-of-hours IR registrar rota to support the on-call consultants.

Administrative:

Ensure appropriate management for patients in your care

Contribute to the efficient and effective running of the department

Support initiatives to improve service quality, patient pathways and manage waiting time targets within the Directorate and the Trust, as well as the wider Health community

Research:

The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high-profile activity that compliments the service provided, the emphasis being on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio

Time for research is included in the SPA allowance

Teaching:

Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching

Support the training of other healthcare professionals within the organisation

Active involvement in the clinical supervision of Radiology Registrars in the department

Flexibility:

In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC
• Training in Interventional Radiology
• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of experience in the specialty
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
• Experience in vascular treatments including EVAR.
• Experience in one or more areas of subspecialty interest (including endo-urology, interventional oncology, complex aortic intervention etc).

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
• An understanding of Clinical Governance
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership / project management
• Evidence of having implemented change
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature
• Publications in the last five years

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's values.
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD.
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum pro rata