Consultant Radiographer - Breast Centre | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £76,965 - £88,682 Dependent on either Band 8b/8c |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 September 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7414571/249-7414571 |
Summary
Band 8c (Band 8b if further training required to obtain Master’s degree and locally agreed competencies)
This post is for a Consultant Breast Radiographer with post graduate experience and qualifications in breast image interpretation, breast ultrasound, and breast intervention.
The post holder must hold or be working towards a master’s degree in Breast Imaging. If still training and are not fully qualified to work autonomously, we can support your training but you will start as an 8b.
The role is within the breast imaging team providing a breast imaging and diagnostic service for the Wiltshire Breast Screening Service and the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust symptomatic breast service.
The post holder will be expected to work alongside Consultant Radiologists and specialist Doctors in providing an imaging, interventional, and ultrasound service within the breast screening unit, to include reporting breast images, localisation of breast lesions, leading assessment clinics and multi-disciplinary meetings, undertaking ultrasound lists and providing imaging and biopsy/FNA’s for symptomatic clinics.
Undertake and independently report on breast ultrasound, issue reports and further recommendations as appropriate. Perform image guided intervention. To assess critically any change in ultrasound practice within the unit, interpreting conflicting information and instigate any resulting change in practice. Provide highly specialist advice on service.
Report mammography images originating from the screening programme, symptomatic and breast screening cancer follow–up programmes.
To be a source of information and advice for colleagues with regard to abnormal image recognition. To assess critically any change in reading practice within the unit, interpreting conflicting information and instigate any resulting change in practice. Provide highly specialist advice on service.
To recommend further specific views or procedures in order to assess abnormal imaging.
To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, and chair the meeting if necessary.
To be able to work autonomously within the breast team and exercise clinical judgement using skill and professional knowledge to ensure clinical practice is carried out correctly, professionally and within the legal framework.
To run the imaging side of breast clinics autonomously, issuing reports and giving advice to other clinicians.
Our Values
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
The post will be 37.5 hours per week, principally within 8.00-5.30 normal working hours.
The post holder will also be expected to have a complete understanding of the National Breast Screening Programme and be able to provide leadership, and function as a consultant to other practitioners and engage in clinical supervision activities to support them in that role. The post holder will also be expected to take a significant role in research and development within the department, working with the Breast Centre Manager, Lead Radiographer and the Breast Screening Director to promote and coordinate research and audit.
Be sufficiently informed and professionally competent to identify and address patients’ information needs with respect to breast awareness and other health issues and able to discuss complex and sensitive health problems with the patient.
To use professional discretion and experience to work outside of departmental standards when clinical circumstances necessitate for example analysing conflicting evidence and recommending further action, undertaking additional views or specialist techniques or recommending a change in practice.
To assess and justify referrals under Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposure)Regulations 2000, IR(ME)R following practitioner guidelines.
To be conversant with the computerised systems within Diagnostic Radiology and the Breast Screening Unit.
Please see attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025
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