Bank Consultant Radiographer
Job Description
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Consultant Radiographer in Breast Imaging to join our multidisciplinary breast care team at Warwick and Stratford upon Avon hospital. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership across breast imaging services, delivering advanced autonomous practice in mammography, breast ultrasound, image interpretation, and image-guided procedures.
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting high-quality, patient-centred care across symptomatic pathways, contributing to early cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning. Working collaboratively with radiologists, breast surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, and breast care nurses, the Consultant Radiographer will contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making and service development.
This is an excellent opportunity for an advanced practitioner with substantial breast imaging experience and a strong commitment to clinical excellence, compassionate care, and continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
The consultant radiographer in breast imaging will provide expert clinical leadership, advanced practice, and strategic development within the breast service. The post holder will deliver highly specialist clinical practice while leading service innovation, education, research and professional leadership in line with NHS and organisational priorities.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
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We appreciate you completing the survey.
Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The post holder will have to possess the following:
Post Graduate qualification in Advanced Mammography Practice at a masters Level or equivalent.
Post graduate award in Mammography.
Have significant advanced post registration experience in breast imaging and reporting.
HCPC state registered.
Tomosynthesis and stereo-core biopsies would be an advantage. They will execute the four pillars of consultant radiography Practice.
Professional and Clinical:
Deliver autonomous, advanced-level breast imaging practice including mammography, ultrasound, image guided procedures and reporting.
Clinical duties without supervision, would include Breast ultrasound, pre-surgical image guided localisation procedures (wire guided, magseed), image-guided core biopsies and suction biopsies, free hand ultrasound-guided techniques including cyst aspirations and core biopsies according to the National Occupational Standards using all types of available x-ray equipment in the breast imaging department.
In addition to having experience in image interpretation and able to interpret and diagnose mammograms according to local and national protocols.
Provide expert opinion in complex and non-routine breast imaging cases.
Contribute to the multidisciplinary (MDT) meetings, supporting diagnostic and management decisions.
To be proficient in the delivery of subcutaneous local anaesthetic during imageguided biopsy procedures to enable the post holder to act as a prescriber.
To undertake administration of local anaesthesia and prescribe medication within the defined departments patients group directive.
Ensure high standards of patient-centred care, safely and quality.
To demonstrate clinical leadership, consultancy and professional education as part of a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care.
To maintain and promote partnership working with other healthcare professionals with expertise in the field of breast imaging e.g. clinical nurse specialists, radiologists, surgeons, pathologists and oncologists.
Undertake any other tasks or duties appropriate to the post.
Training and Supervision :
Lead and support education, training and competency development for radiographer and other healthcare professionals.
Act as a mentor and clinical supervisor for advanced and consultant practitioners.
Contribute to the academic partnership and post graduate delivery.
To encourage the development of, and provide expert assistance to, more junior radiographers and act as a role model to all members of staff.
To supervise and teach radiological specialist registrars and to organise suitable educational experiences within the breast unit for medical and other health professional students.
Share professional knowledge and expertise through formal and informal teaching using flexible methods of delivery.
Identify and respond to any appropriate education needs within the Trust, enabling practitioners to develop clinically based competencies, thus ensuring that they are effective in providing quality service provision.
Promote a reflective, questioning approach to clinical practice and support the use of clinical supervision to enhance the quality of patient care.
Provide inter-professional support and education within the speciality for staff of all disciplines studying at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
Facilitate others to develop and deliver appropriate strategies to meet the educational needs of patients and monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.
Clinical Governance:
At all times adhere to the Health Professions Council and the Society of Radiographers Code of Professional Conduct, local Trust policies, protocols and guidelines and be actively involved in clinical supervision and peer review.
Contribute to Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness agendas relating to breast imaging by ensuring best practice guidelines in breast imaging which improve patient care. These agendas may cross organisational, professional and speciality boundaries.
Communication Skills and Working Relationships:
To demonstrate excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills to communicate highly complex and sensitive information effectively with patients, carers and staff at all levels.
To be able to explain procedures and obtaining the necessary consent for the procedures.
To communicate clinical information clearly and compassionately, supporting informed decision-making and maintaining patient dignity, privacy and confidentiality in line with the NHS values.
To be responsible for reassuring and discharging patients from symptomatic clinics as appropriate.
Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing expert radiographic opinion to MDT meeting, clinical discussions and service planning.
Develop and maintain effective working relationships across specialities, departments and external organisations to support integrated, patient-centred breast services.
Provide professional leadership, advice and support to radiography colleagues and the wider MDT. Fostering a culture of openness, learning and continuous improvements.
Act as a role model for the NHS values and behaviours, promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and effective team working in all aspects of practice.
Ability to discuss diagnoses with patients and give bad news.
To respond to any questions or concerns from patients, clients and visitors professionally and with confidence.
Analytical and Judgement Skills:
To demonstrate leadership.
Support the multi-disciplinary team in delivering patient care ensuring sound clinical and ethical decision making in relation to breast diagnosis.
Ensure that appropriate, consistent and realistic information is provided to patients and relatives.
Continually assess, monitor and report clinical risk and challenge own and others practice.
To independently analyse complex clinical, imaging and pathological information to ...
