Locum Consultant in Vascular Interventional Radiology

MFT are looking for an enthusiastic Consultant Vascular Interventional Radiologist to join our team to cover a period of maternity leave., The appointee will work alongside the 13 existing Vascular Interventional Radiologists, providing angio lists, support to hybrid vascular operating, MDT's, vascular reporting, VIR consultant of the day role, IR clinic and form part of a two tier 1:8 cross city VIR rota.

As well as two MFT sites, MFT VIR consultants also provide services at Salford Royal Hospital and at The Royal Oldham hospital as part of the vascular service currently based there.

Successful candidates will reasonably be expected to work across multiple sites, in both elective and on-call settings, in line with the Hub and Spoke model of VIR service delivery and alongside the existing consultants.

The MFT vascular service is going through an exciting period of development bringing together 3 vascular services across Greater Manchester into a single network covering 2.8m population.

The MFT VIR team provide a full range of interventions to support vascular surgery, major trauma, hepatobiliary surgery, hepatology, urology, paediatric intervention, renal and pancreatic transplant surgery, plastic surgery, cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery including ECMO and heart/lung transplantation. There is a consultant of the day role based at the MRI site, established IR clinics and a nurse led radiology pre-op service., MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

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