Bank Interventional Radiographer – Breast Services
| Posting date: | 24 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Location: | Ashington, NE63 9JJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7264075/319-7264075GH |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is seeking a Breast interventional Radiographer to provide bank sessions as required to support the breast services, working alongside Consultant Radiologists and mammographers across the Trust.
Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
Provide and facilitate a high level of care to patients presenting with, or who are at risk of, breast disease, including the assessment and diagnosis of patients, managing complete episodes of care.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Image Interpretation
· Accountable for performing, diagnosing and reporting of complex diagnostic procedures. Formally interpret and correlate imaging examinations and/or perform advanced image interpretation tasks that provide a written report to direct and inform the management of patient care.
· Accurately and independently recognise normal and abnormal pathology which may influence results.
Reporting
· Issue reports for symptomatic cases that are neither, checked, or second-reported. The report should constitute a definitive unchecked report that will direct and inform patient management to the referring clinician. The report will summarise in a clear concise format the imaging findings in the context of the clinical presentation. Screening cases will be double reported according to local and national protocols.
· Interventional Procedures
· A combination of the following interventional procedures may be undertaken as part of the clinical workload depending on qualification and training.
· Stereotactic core biopsies and wire localisations
· Ultrasound guided cyst aspirations, FNA, breast core biopsies, axillary node biopsy, Magseed or RFID placement and wire localisations
· Vacuum-assisted biopsy
· Vacuum-assisted excision
· Abscess management
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Jul 2025
This post is seeking a Breast interventional Radiographer to provide bank sessions as required to support the breast services, working alongside Consultant Radiologists and mammographers across the Trust.
Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
Provide and facilitate a high level of care to patients presenting with, or who are at risk of, breast disease, including the assessment and diagnosis of patients, managing complete episodes of care.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Image Interpretation
· Accountable for performing, diagnosing and reporting of complex diagnostic procedures. Formally interpret and correlate imaging examinations and/or perform advanced image interpretation tasks that provide a written report to direct and inform the management of patient care.
· Accurately and independently recognise normal and abnormal pathology which may influence results.
Reporting
· Issue reports for symptomatic cases that are neither, checked, or second-reported. The report should constitute a definitive unchecked report that will direct and inform patient management to the referring clinician. The report will summarise in a clear concise format the imaging findings in the context of the clinical presentation. Screening cases will be double reported according to local and national protocols.
· Interventional Procedures
· A combination of the following interventional procedures may be undertaken as part of the clinical workload depending on qualification and training.
· Stereotactic core biopsies and wire localisations
· Ultrasound guided cyst aspirations, FNA, breast core biopsies, axillary node biopsy, Magseed or RFID placement and wire localisations
· Vacuum-assisted biopsy
· Vacuum-assisted excision
· Abscess management
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Jul 2025
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