Job summary
- Main area
- Breast Imaging
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-1DD2D8-24-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Diana Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Grimsby
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum pro rata depending on experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Practitioner Breast Imaging & Deputy to Head Breast Imaging
Band 8a
Job overview
The post holder will support the Consultant Radiographic Practitioner / Head of Service in providing a high-quality clinical service, and effective strategic leadership. The post holder must be registered as a Radiographer with the Health and Care Professions Council. In addition to clinical expertise, the post holder also requires a high level of tact, diplomacy and management expertise. The post holder will also work closely with the Breast Surgery and Breast Screening Teams to ensure activity and patient flow are supported.
The practitioner will be responsible for the day to day provision of Mammographic Imaging to the breast care unit and be the deputy to the Consultant Radiographic Practitioner at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby. This will include ensuring a high standard of mammography from all team members, identifying individual training requirements, providing practical training as required. The post holder will also undertake Mammographic Image Interpretation, breast ultrasound and related procedures if applicable. The post holder should encourage role development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a team member within a multidisciplinary team providing effective communication between all areas to enhance patient care. Attendance at MDT and other relevant meetings will be expected.
They will create within the unit the desired environment for technical excellence by providing practical training and support to Assistant practitioners and those embarking on Post Graduate study, and will ensure compliance of quality assurance program as outlined by National Breast screening Quality assurance regional committee, forwarding all data as required in a timely and accurate manner to the relevant body.
The post holder will normally be expected to work a 5day week, however they may have a need to participate in 7 day working on occasion. This should be for the benefit of the service, and by agreement with the Director of Diagnostic AHPs.
Working for our organisation
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Initial Degree level qualification in Radiography
- • MSc module in Breast Imaging Image Interpretation and Reporting
- • MSc module in Breast Ultrasound & Interventional Procedures
- • Evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria
- • Teaching qualification.
- • Team Leader Experience
- • MSc Breast Imaging
Occupational Experience
Essential criteria
- • 3 years post-graduate experience within the NHS.
- • Highly specialised knowledge and practical experience of Breast Imaging Services.
- • Audit Experience
Desirable criteria
- • Team Leader Experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janet Hendy
- Job title
- Consultant Radiographic Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please email to arrange an informal discussion or site visit
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