Radiographic Assistant

Job overview

This role is open to female applicants only due to the sensitivity of the role. This is a genuine occupational requirement (GOR) (The Equality Act 2010 - Section 9)

The Derby/Burton Breast Unit is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Imaging Department Assistant to join the Breast Service hosted by UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton) to work across all sites.

The Imaging Department Assistant role is at the foundation of our ability to make the difference to our patients. Importantly they provide the cement that binds our Imaging Services together, across our dynamic and expanding department. They are often the first point of contact for our patients, this may be face to face or by telephone. Good communication skills are essential.

The successful candidate will work alongside our multi-professional team assisting in clinics and providing support in clinic for our diagnostic and surgical consultants in ultrasound and clinical outpatient rooms.

Main duties of the job

We are a progressive forward-thinking department with a positive approach at meeting and delivering the current challenges of the NHS. You would join a team within the Breast Services.

- Assist with the running of clinics ensuring patients flow through the clinics in an organised and efficient manner. - Provide chaperone duties for clinical examinations. - Ensure clinic paperwork has been correctly filled in and filed in the patient record. - Ensure clinic rooms are correctly stocked. - Provide patients with Breast Care leaflets and ordering of leaflets required.

The Imaging Department Assistant would join a team of Breast Service staff and Radiographers to provide symptomatic clinics and a screening service as part of the NBSS (National Breast Screening Service).

In addition to the above duties-

- Assist clinicians when they are performing biopsies, ultrasound, drainages and other procedures as required when working at Royal Derby Hospital/Queens Hospital Burton- Breast Care Units.

Closing date of applications: 31 May 2026

Interview date: 11 June 2026

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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