Consultant Radiologist with special interest in Acute Care & Trauma

Consultant Radiologist with special interest in Acute Care & Trauma

Consultant

Main area Radiology Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 Hours per week) Job ref 213-MED-DH-

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital Town London Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum excluding London Zone Allowance. Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/ :59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

based at the Denmark Hill site of the Department of Radiology at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT).

Main duties of the job

This post will support continued provision of our consultant-led acute and trauma imaging service covering 8am to 7pm. The primary responsibility of the post holder will be to the delivery of deliver timely high quality acute and trauma imaging, but pursuit of a subspecialty interest aligned with departmental need will be encouraged and supported.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for . Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The activities and development of the Imaging Services reflect those of the Hospital with integration of undergraduate and postgraduate training and service commitments. This service includes complex imaging for inpatients referred across the range of general and tertiary specialties as well as trauma, Emergency Department and Day-case unit imaging.

The post holder will primarily be expected to provide consultant input for the acute CT service which covers trauma, inpatient and day-case CT imaging and to join the diagnostic on-call rota. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the imaging department, support the daily clinico-radiological trauma meeting while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff, medical students and associated professional groups.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registerable medical qualification FRCR or equivalent
• Within six months of the expected date of CCT (or equivalent) on the day of interview
• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD(Res), PhD)
• CCT or equivalent

Registration

• Full Registration with GMC with licence to practice
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

Training and Experience

• Wide experience in all aspects of radiology in the UK, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or completed portfolio pathway application.
• Experience in Acute CT Imaging
• Experience in acute Trauma Imaging
• Other radiology subspecialty experience

Administration

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of radiology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
• Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
• Able to demonstrate ability to lead change

Research and Publications

• Experience of supporting clinical research
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of radiology
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Teaching

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
• Teaching skills course/qualification

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reports and Other Corporate Publications

King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre Website

King's College Hospital is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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