Consultant Radiographer - Breast Imaging

Job overview

The Consultant Radiographer in Breast Imaging will provide expert clinical, professional and strategic leadership across the breast imaging service, delivering highly specialist autonomous practice while leading service transformation, innovation, research, education and workforce development. The post holder will provide authoritative advice on complex clinical and operational matters, lead the development and implementation of evidence-based pathways, and work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team to improve patient safety, experience, diagnostic performance and outcomes ensuring the service remains responsive to national standards, technological developments and changing patient needs. The post holder will have to travel between the symptomatic breast imaging sites at both Warwick and Stratford upon Avon hospital.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job summary:

The post holder will have to possess the following:

Post Graduate qualification in Advanced Mammography Practice at a master’s 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 designing and writing formal and informal teaching programmes 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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.