consultant radiologist with an interest in head & neck
south sector
INFORMATION PACK
REF: 37029D
cLOSING DATE: nOON 8th May 2015
As you may be aware, the new SouthGlasgowUniversityHospital and new RoyalHospital for Sick Children are due to open on the current Southern site early in 2015.
With this in mind, please note that positions based within the Victoria Infirmary, Mansionhouse Unit, the Western Infirmary and the current RoyalHospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill will change location and move to the new hospitals.
Gartnavel GeneralHospital and Glasgow Royal Infirmary will also have some services affected by moves to the new Hospitals.
These changes mean your base may change after joining us and you will be informed as soon as possible prior to any change of base.
SUMMARY INFORMATION RELATING TO THIS POSITION
Post: consultant radiologist with an interest in head & neck
Base:south sector
Applicants are invited to apply for the following post:
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and highly skilled Radiologist with special interest in Head and Neck Radiology to join a team of 23 existing consultant radiologists within the South Sector and 22 consultants in the North West sector to further support and develop services. The post will be based at the South Glasgow University Hospital with sessional commitment to the New Victoria Hospital ACAD/Gartnavel General Hospital.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is the largest National Health Service provider in Scotland with an annual operating budget of just under £2 billion. In recent years, NHSGGC has invested £15 million in new facilities and equipment, specifically in the areas of CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Digital Mammography, PET CT / SPECT, Angiography and General Digital Imaging.
The South Sector will soon include the largest hospital in Scotland, the South Glasgow University Hospital (SGUH), with the closing of the existing Southern General Hospital, Victoria Infirmary and Western Infirmary and merging of services. Together with Gartnavel General Hospital and the Victoria ACH this will form the new South West Sector.
Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a licence to practise and be eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR) or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
DIAGNOSTICS DIRECTORATE
INFORMATION PACK
FOR THE POST OF
CONSULTANT RADIOLOGIST
NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE
WITH AN INTEREST IN HEAD AND NECK RADIOGY
BASED WITHIN THE SOUTH SECTOR
1.Glasgow – A Fantastic Place to Live and Work
Glasgow has a wealth of attractions including some of the UK's finest Victorian architecture, internationally acclaimed museums, galleries and cultural venues all thriving in a unique cosmopolitan atmosphere. The renaissance of Glasgow over the last decade is an urban success story to which many major UK and European cities aspire.
Glasgow is now one of Europe's top cultural capitals with a complete all year calendar of festivals and events. Glaswegians and visitors alike enjoy widely acclaimed bars and first class restaurants nestling within the best commercial shopping district outside London. All of this is located within a stone's throw of some of the country's finest parks and gardens.
Glasgow is the gateway to Scotland's most spectacular scenery, with Loch Lomond and the Trossachs only 40 minutes away. Glasgow is at the core of road and national rail networks. It boasts the second largest suburban rail network in the United Kingdom. GlasgowInternationalAirport is just 10 miles from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with 16 flights per day to London and direct international flights to many European destinations, Vancouver, Philadelphia, New York and Dubai.
2.The Hospital Modernisation Programme - The Services of Tomorrow
A massive re-organisation of NHSGGC has recently been completed. As such, the Diagnostics Directorate took responsibility for all Diagnostic services in February 2006. The re-organisation was essential to align the organisational structure with the Acute Services Review (ASR) recommendations and support the Hospital Modernisation Programme. This is transforming healthcare provision locally, regionally and nationally. More than seven hundred million pounds of investment underpins an ambitious building programme, designed to deliver world class and integrated care from the following major acute sector units:
·New Cancer Centre, PET CT Imaging Centre, on the General hospital campus at Gartnavel, opened in 2007.
·Development of a single dedicated Regional Cardiothoracic Centre at Golden Jubilee Hospital, completed 2008.
·Ambulatory Care, Diagnostic and Treatment Centres at the Stobhill and Victoria sites, opened June 2009.
·New AcuteSouthGlasgowHospital with co-location of Maternity, Children’s and AdultHospital services. Regional Neurosciences and Maxillofacial Centres are also on site. Due for completion in 2015.
·Re-development of Glasgow Royal Infirmary into the second major acute hospital from 2015.
The Hospital Modernisation Programme will ensure that walk-in/walk-out hospital services are provided for the majority of patients. The pattern of service provision will shift to reflect moves towards ambulatory care. Currently 85% to 90% of patient encounters with acute hospital services are on a same day basis. These include outpatient attendances, diagnostic tests, imaging procedures, and a range of day surgery procedures. In future, these services will be provided from ambulatory care centres designed to deliver a streamlined and rapid process of care.
The redesign and redevelopment of Glasgow's acute services will address many of the pressures currently facing the hospital service. The new services will be provided in modern facilities rather than in early 20th century buildings. The purpose-designed facilities will enable the one-stop/rapid diagnosis and treatment models required for the future. State of the art IT services and PACS currently allow patients’ images and diagnostic results to be available throughout the city and beyond, regardless of which hospital site is providing services. Concentration of inpatient facilities into fewer sites across the city will satisfy the requirements of junior doctor’s hours and issues arising from increasing sub-specialisation of medicine to be addressed, through the creation of larger staff teams and sustainable rotas for both junior and senior staff.
3.Greater Glasgow & Clyde Acute Services Division
Glasgow Acute Services Clyde Acute Services
15 Hospitals3 Hospitals
4,700 beds1,100 beds
£980m income £250m income
19,500 wte staff7,000 wte staff
The Acute Division brings together all acute services across the city and Clyde under a single management structure led by the Chief Operating Officer. The Division is made up of seven Directorates of clinical services, each managed by a Director and clinical management team along with a Facilities Directorate. These are:
Emergency Care and Medical Services
Surgery and Anaesthetics
Rehabilitation and Assessment
Diagnostics
Regional Services
Women’s and Children’s Services
Facilities
4.Diagnostics Directorate
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde serves a population of around 2 million located across the West of Scotland. The New Cancer Centre serves a population of around 2.8 million i.e. over half the population of Scotland.
The Diagnostics Directorate has responsibility for all Laboratory services, Clinical Physics, Medical Photography, Bio engineering and Diagnostic Imaging. Diagnostic Imaging includes Clinical Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Regional imaging services (Neuroradiology, Paediatric Radiology, Oncological Imaging/PET CT, Breast Screening and Dental Radiology).
5.Diagnostic Imaging
Adult acute Radiology services are organised on a sector basis with Clinical Leads covering each sector (NE, NW, South, and Clyde). Clinical Leads for, PET CT, Paediatric Radiology, Adult Interventional and Breast Screening services are also in post. Clinical Leads report to the Clinical Director (Dr Anne Marie Sinclair) and General Manager (Lynn Ross).
Combined South & North-West Sector Lead
Lead
(Southern General;Victoria;
Gartnavel General and Western Infirmary) Dr. Stuart Ballantyne
North-East Sector Lead
(Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Stobhill ACH)Dr. Ross MacDuff
Clyde Sector
(Royal Alexandra and Inverclyde Dr. Marzi Davies
RoyalHospital and Vale of Leven
Hospital)
Paediatric Radiology Lead
(RoyalHospital for Sick Children) Dr. Ruth Allen
Breast Screening Lead
(Breast Screening Unit)Dr. Hilary Dobson
PET CT Lead
(Greater Glasgow & Clyde)Dr. Sai Han
InterventionalRadiology Lead Dr Ram Kasthuri
The NHSGG Strategic Review of Imaging Services aligns the future configuration of imaging with the over-arching NHSGG Hospital Modernisation Programme. Imaging support for acute/unscheduled care activity is a clinical governance priority. The key strategic aim of the Directorate is improve the quality of care provided to patients on the basis of clinical need by consolidating acute/emergency imaging support on a 24/7, 365 day basis and by complying with emergency, cancer related and scheduled care National waiting times targets.
The NHSGG out of hours imaging model for the adult acute service includes robust vascular/interventional on-call cover city wide with plans at an advanced stage for a centralised diagnostic on call service centred at the Royal Infirmary covering all Glasgow and Clyde acute sites.
Consultant Radiologist “out of hours” activity will be incorporated into job plans as a mix of evening/overnight “on-call” cover, weekend daytime activity and weekend daytime “on-call” cover Thus within a framework of recognised contractual hours, there is likely to be a future change in the current working practice of routine 9 to 5pm, five days a week working, to one in which extended working days, and weekend working will become the norm.
6.Education & Training
Close links to the University of Glasgow ensure significant engagement in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
The NHSGGC Imaging Directorate is the major clinical sponsor for the West of Scotland Radiology Postgraduate Training Scheme and around 40 Specialist Registrars currently rotate through the Glasgow departments.
The Glasgow Caledonian Course in Diagnostic Ultrasound is accredited to Masters Level and trainee Sonographers are educated and mentored locally.
7.Research & University Links
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde has excellent working relationships with the University of Glasgow and linked clinical / academic departments. Glasgow has a very strong academic and research base, with an excellent teaching reputation. There are libraries and lecture suites at all the hospital sites.
The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her expertise and to undertake high quality audit and research activity. Strong collaborations exist between the various research groups of the Division. Successful candidates may be offered honorary status with the University.
The diagnostic directorate is currently engaged in developing even stronger links with the university to specifically support imaging based research and provide imaging support to major national and international trials.
8.Valuing our Staff
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde is committed to extending training and development opportunities to all staff and is actively developing multi-disciplinary training, extending the role of on-line E-learning, and recognises the importance of developments in technology for both staff and patients.
We Offer:
·Policies to help balance commitments at work and home and flexible family friendly working arrangements
·Excellent training and development opportunities.
·Free and confidential staff counselling services
·A central Glasgow location, with close access to motorway, rail and airport links.
·On-site library services
·Subsidised staff restaurant facilities
·Access to NHS staff benefits/staff discounts
·Active health promotion activities
·Bike User Group (National Cycle Scheme)
·Good Public Transport links
·Commitment to staff education and life-long learning/development opportunities
·Excellent student support
·Access to NHS Pension scheme
9.The Imaging Departments
General Information
An HSS RIS system covers all Glasgow and Clyde departments. Glasgow is the lead site for the Scottish National PACS implementation and completed National acceptance testing in January 2007, triggering the Glasgow wide roll out which was completed in mid 2008. This has undergone a recent upgrade to V11 with replacement of hardware and refreshing of the software package.
Voice recognition technology has also been introduced at all Glasgow and Clyde hospital sites along with upgrades to the RIS/PACS systems. The Trak-Care PAS was introduced in 2013 and electronic requesting with “Order” Comms has been in operation across all sites since May 2014.
All acute adult and paediatric hospitals and the ambulatory care hospitals have provision of modern mulltislice CT and 1.5T MRI systems. In addition, a 3T magnet is available at the regional neurosciences unit on the Southern General campus.
A Regional PET CT Centre, with two modern PET-CT scanners, has been developed adjacent to the New Cancer Centre.
Dedicated vascular/interventional facilities are available at Gartnavel, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Western Infirmary, Southern General Hospital, Victoria Infirmary, and in Neuroradiology/INS. Vascular/Interventional facilities in The Royal Hospital for Sick Children are shared with Cardiology.
Total imaging examination numbers for Glasgow approach over one million per annum (excluding Obstetric US and Cardiology). The annual incidence of cancer for the Glasgow area is in the order of 7,000 cases. Regional services cover up to half the population of Scotland, potentially doubling the caseload for some patient pathways.
The Diagnostics Directorate currently employs around 116 individual Consultant Radiologists across Glasgow:
North East Sector23 (including vacancies)
North West Sector22
South Sector24 (including vacancies)
Neuroradiology10
Paediatric Radiology 7
Breast Screening 7
DentalHospital 2
Clyde 21(including vacancies)
Around 40 Specialist Registrars rotate through the West of Scotland Training Scheme.
South Sector
The construction of the SouthGlasgowUniversityHospital, linked to the Institute of Neurological Sciences, the New Children’s Hospital and the redeveloped MaternityHospital is at the core of the NHSGGC Modernisation Programme. The transfer of acute services from the existing sites: SGH, VIC, WIG, GGH is scheduled for completion during 2015.
The SGUH hospital campus will be the largest acute hospital site in Scotland providing inpatient services for the population of South Glasgow and well as some city wide services including vascular, renal and regional services.
There will be 5 CT scanners and 3 MR scanners between adult and paediatrics as well as a modern nuclear medicine department and this excludes additional provision at the Neurological Institute.
The main clinical campus for GlasgowUniversity and the laboratory services for Glasgoware also relocating to the South Glasgow campus and substantial investment in research and education facilities is underway.
The New Victoria Hospital, an ambulatory care facility, opened in June 2009 and provides modern facilities for diagnostic procedures, day surgery and ‘walking wounded’ casualty services. This is located directly opposite the current Victoria Infirmary, which will retain its inpatient and accident and emergency services until SGUHopens in 2015.
Facilities within the NewVictoriaHospital include a 64 slice CT Toshiba scanner, 3 ultrasound rooms with dedicated breast ultrasound and elastography and liver imaging software, a Siemens digital stereotactic and digital breast mammography unit and a multipurpose fluoroscopy unit. A 1.5T Philips MR scanner (upgradeable to 3T) with whole body imaging, a full range of phased array multichannel surface coils and a breast coil with biopsy capability will be available. There is full RIS/PACS integration. Further floor space allows for expansion of CT, MR and other services/equipment. Departmental library and seminar rooms are available for MDTs and teaching, in addition to shared Consultant office facilities.
North West Sector
The Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital jointly constitute one of the teaching hospital units linked to the University of Glasgow, the main campus of which is currently adjacent to the Western Infirmary site.
The Western Infirmary currently retains acute receiving for Medicine and Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Renal Medicine, Transplant Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and the Academic Departments of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Glasgow. Core acute inpatient services will move to the SGUH in 2015.
As part of the Glasgow Modernisation Programme, some services have already centralised to the Gartnavel site. These include the Infectious Diseases Unit, the Ophthalmology service and ENT. Specialist inpatient breast services are expected to be sited at Gartnavel in the long term.
The new Beatson Cancer Centre opened in 2008 at the Gartnavel campus. Details can be found on the website
North East Sector
Glasgow Royal Infirmary is a large teaching hospital serving a local population of approximately 400,000, and providing supra-regional and national tertiary referral services, including Plastic Surgery, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic service and the Centre for Rheumatic Disease. It is one of two major acute sites being developed within the city. (The other is at the Southern General Hospital – see below.)
Outpatient Imaging services are co-ordinated between the Royal Infirmary and the satellite Ambulatory Care Hospital (ACH) three miles North at Stobhill. This opened in May 2009 and provides modern facilities for diagnostic procedures, day surgery, renal dialysis and ‘walking wounded’ minor injuries services.
Clyde Sector
Consultant Radiology provision within this Sector has been organised and modernised to support the future imaging requirements for the population of this region which is 400,000.