Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is delighted to advertise
substantive Consultant Radiologist posts with a specialist interest in Thoracic/Cardiothoracic imaging to join our existing motivated and dynamic team across this large, developing and aspirational Trust. The posts are within the Adults’ Radiology Directorate within the Division of Imaging.
The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of over 50 Consultant Radiologists in Adults’ Radiology providing a full range of imaging services to the local population and tertiary level services across Greater Manchester and beyond. Adults’ Radiology is the largest department within the Division of Imaging, and our Consultant team provides a full range of general and specialist imaging for Adult patients across our 3 Acute and 2 non-acute hospital sites.
If you are interested in joining our world class team see the additional documents section for external links to detailed information about our team and what MFT and Manchester has to offer.
Subspecialty
The specialist duties of the post are to support the wide-ranging flagship thoracic services at Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT). The successful applicant will be expected to work with our respiratory and cardiac services across all our major sites including Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe, and North Manchester General Hospital.
MFT is the regional thoracic hub and offers a wide range of regional thoracic services including:
- Regional Mesothelioma and ILD services
- Heart and Lung Transplant Centre
- National Aspergillus Centre
- Lung Health Check Programme offering a community-based screening service to North Manchester and Tameside patients to detect early lung cancer.
- Regional biopsy service
- Thoracic surgical services
- Regional ECMO and cardiac services
MFT has established the award-winning thoracic oncology ‘Rapid’ pathway across delivering a hot CT reporting service, allied to a diagnostic bundle of tests, to patients suspected of lung cancer. The Wythenshawe site also offers a regional biopsy service to support the region’s surgical/oncology pathways. The Trust supports complex thoracic work throughout the conurbation and beyond.
Acute & On-Call Radiology
This comes with 1PA commitment to support acute work and 0.5 PA to support radiology On-call.
MFT is one of England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of over £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’ve 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.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Haidar Alwan-Walker Job title: Adult Clinical Director, Division of Imaging Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0161 276 4185
We warmly invite potential applicants to contact our team if they require any further information or wish to arrange a visit to meet us and see the hospital. We are also happy to meet via Teams video chat.
If you wish to arrange a visit please contact
If you are interested in joining our world class team see the additional documents section for external links to detailed information about our team and what MFT and Manchester has to offer.
