Trainee Breast Clinician | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52,530 - £82,400 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN36BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6177970/TraineeBreastClinician |
Summary
During this 3-year WTE training programme the post holder will develop all the necessary knowledge and skills to provide clinical and imaging expertise in symptomatic and screening services and to lead family history breast clinics.
This post is not designed for established breast clinicians or those wishing to pursue a surgical career.
All medical staff in each Directorate are managerially accountable through their Lead Clinician to the Associate Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate. Consultants are key members of the Directorate team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient experience.
As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:
• Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including:• Interpretation of screening mammograms
• New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
• Screening assessment clinics
• Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound guided core biopsy)
• Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
• Assisting in and ultimately running family history clinics assessing genetic risk and organising screening
• Participating in MDT meetings
• Optimising patient management
• Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
• Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
• Collaborating in research
• Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of both acute hospital and community services. It serves the local population of Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. The Great Western Hospital itself is a large modern hospital, which opened in December 2002 and in 2011 we integrated with Wiltshire community services.
The Trust’s overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:
• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• Increase numbers of patients from Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.
As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:
• Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including:• Interpretation of screening mammograms
• New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
• Screening assessment clinics
• Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound guided core biopsy)
• Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
• Assisting in and ultimately running family history clinics assessing genetic risk and organising screening
• Participating in MDT meetings
• Optimising patient management
• Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
• Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
• Collaborating in research
• Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
Professional Responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work within the provisions as set out by the GMC. Adherence with GMC guidance regarding good medical practice, in addition to local and national clinical governance and probity guidance is essential. For those working within the NHSBSP, the document, “Quality Assurance Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening Radiology Second edition NHSBSP Publication No 59” should be the basis of the standard expected of Breast Clinicians at completion of imaging training. Clinical workload will vary during the training programme but will always revolve around a functional multi-disciplinary team approach to patient management.
The Trust supports the involvement in external professional work such as examining or external professional committees. These will be discussed with the AMD and form part of the job plan.
Clinical Governance and Audit
The post holder is expected to participate in the Trust’s clinical effectiveness activities, and to maintain and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will lead the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.
The post holder along with the Lead Clinician, Associate Medical Director and General Manager will ensure the Directorate meets the targets set out in the Trust’s Clinical Governance and Risk Strategy, including:
• Production of a Divisional annual clinical governance plan.
• Production of a Divisional quality strategy.
• Production of a Divisional quarterly report to the Trust’s Clinical Governance and Risk Committee.
Ensuring targets within the plan are met, including:
• Adoption of evidence-based practice including compliance with government guidance, e.g. NICE and NSFs
• Establishment and implementation of a Divisional clinical audit programme
• Completion of risk assessments as required and compliance with the Trust’s risk management policies and strategies including controls assurance standards
• Encouraging research and development
• Ensuring, through the General Manager, in association with the Division of Workforce and Education, that Divisional staff meet the education and training targets agreed within the Trust’s annual plan.
• Ensuring through the General Manager that complaints management is timely and effective including implementing action plans relating to individual complaints.
• Contributing to work force planning to ensure timely availability of appropriate clinical skills to maintain excellence in patient care.
Continued Professional Development
The post holder under the direction of the Lead Clinician will be responsible for continued professional development and take part in continuing medical education activities, in line with the requirements of the appropriate Royal College guidelines to maintain standards of performance.
The post holder will be expected to be committed to the concept of lifelong learning and produce and maintain a Personal Development Plan in agreement with the Lead Clinician.
In addition, the post holder will be expected to support the academic development of the department.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.