🚨🚨Locum Breast Radiology Consultant Needed In Kent – Possible Weekend Cover🚨🚨
- Kent
- Permanent
- Full-time
Role Highlights
🔹 Scope: Screening + symptomatic breast imaging (full diagnostic range)
🔹 Location: Maidstone Breast Care Service (renowned multidisciplinary team)
🔹 Schedule:Mon-Fri: Core hours 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (up to 10hrs per day possible – 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM to cover reporting)
Weekends: Optional sessions (flexible arrangements)🏥 About the Specialist Breast Care ServiceOne-stop clinics led by specialist breast clinicians, which aim to diagnose and treat patients within two weeks of GP referral
A multidisciplinary team approach to care, with weekly team meetings and key workers allocated to all newly-diagnosed cancer patients
Image-guided biopsy, digital mammography and breast ultrasound on both sites
Access to breast MRI, PET scans and stereotactic upright and prone biopsy
Where necessary, access to immediate or delayed breast reconstruction either at Maidstone Hospital or in conjunction with surgeons from the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Joint clinics with specialist breast oncologists from the Kent Oncology Centre, ensuring rapid access to chemotherapy and radiotherapy
Access to Breast Care Nurse Specialist support from the time of diagnosis
A full range of diagnostic services including comprehensive pathology and tumour immunohistochemistry (ER, PR, HER2, E-Cadherin etc), CT and MR scanners, isotope bone scanning and bone density DEXA scanning
Family history clinics
Nurse-led breast pain clinic
West Kent NHS Breast Screening Programme📍 Nearby Cities (Within 1-Hour Drive)
🚗 London - ~50 mins (via M20/M25)
🚗 Canterbury - ~40 mins
🚗 Tunbridge Wells - ~30 mins
🚗 Dartford - ~35 mins
🚗 Gillingham (Medway) - ~20 mins
💡 Why Join?
✅ Immediate start + potential extension
✅ Supportive, high-calibre team, with great opportunities to develop a special interest
✅ Balance of screening & symptomatic work
📩 Next Steps: If interested, please reply with your CV and availability, or call me at 01908 776477
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