# Radiography Assistant Breast Imaging > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/radiography-assistant-breast-imaging/5f0647bd-ccd0-459e-bf86-3fa5507f2085 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/radiography-assistant-breast-imaging/5f0647bd-ccd0-459e-bf86-3fa5507f2085.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Worcester - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 to £27,476 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-14T13:22:14.271Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9365-26-0508?employerCode=C9365 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/C9365-26-0508/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=C9365-26-0508 - **Employer website:** https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Breast Imaging Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Herefordshire and Worcestershire Breast Screening Service We are currently seeking a full time, enthusiastic and well-motivated Radiography assistant to join our friendly patient centred breast imaging team. The breast imaging service provides diagnostic imaging for both the symptomatic breast services across Worcestershire and also the Breast screening service across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. There are breast imaging sites at Worcester Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Treatment Centre, and 3 mobile screening vans that move across Worcestershire and Herefordshire. You will be based at Worcester Breast Unit and work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week varying between 8:15am and 6pm at Worcester Breast Unit and Alexandra Hospital Breast Unit, as the rota requires. You can opt in to work on weekends when clinics are booked. The successful candidate will provide a variety of client related assistant duties ensuring the efficient running of breast screening, symptomatic and assessment clinics. Driving a Trust vehicle is a requirement to provide support at all of our sites. You will be enthusiastic, motivated and committed to high quality patient centred care. Excellent communication skills along with a flexible approach to support the service needs are required. Experience within a healthcare environment is preferred. ### Main duties of the job To assist and support Radiologists, Radiographers and Assistant Practitioners in the efficient running and scheduling of both breast screening assessment clinics and symptomatic breast clinics. This will involve working in the ultrasound room in a clinical support role.To assist with biopsy and localisation procedures in the ultrasound room, ensuring a detailed knowledge of equipment required ie/ biopsy needles or guide wires You will also be required to perform a variety of patient orientated clerical, reception, and administrative duties in the Breast Imaging Department. To ensure patients are cared for appropriately during their time in the breast imaging department. ### About us Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do. Being open and honest Ensuring people feel cared for Showing respect to everyone We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer. DBS Checks and Costs Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs. ### Details - Date posted: 14 July 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 3 - Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working - Reference number: C9365-26-0508 - Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities To work as a Radiology Assistant to a high standard ensuring that lists run efficiently, and patients are ready for their examination. To support and assist Radiologists andConsultant Radiographers and Advanced Practitioners in the ultrasound room with their scan lists. To care for patients and their relatives/carers in the department and offer reassurance and support when required. To prepare clinical procedure trolleys. To assist with biopsy and localisation procedures in the ultrasound room, ensuring a detailed knowledge of equipment required ie: biopsy needles or guide wires To work in accordance with all Trust and Clinical Imaging policies To ensure equipment is routinely cleaned and decontaminated as per guidelines before and after use. To communicate with patients any delays in lists that are likely to affect them. To check patient demographics and ensure correct patient details are present on the ultrasound machine, RIS and PACS prior to a procedure. To assist with the moving of ultrasound equipment if required. Ensure HSDU stock has been returned in a timely manner. To monitor stock of items and report to radiographer in charge if stock item is low. To help with general duties such as using RIS, NBSS and PACS. Inform the patient how and when they will get their results if appropriate. At the end of the list/session, ensure that the ultrasound room/clinical room is left tidy, clean and stocked and drugs have been locked away by a registered member of staff. To report any accidents/incidents to a senior member of staff. To work in accordance with all Trust and Clinical Imaging policies. Have a flexible attitude to hours of work, and participate in work and duties such as extended days, bank holidays and weekends. To participate in patient orientated admin/reception duties To complete accurately and legibly all hand-written records To organise changes of appointment To prepare paperwork for screening and symptomatic clinics To operate a variety of office equipment including photocopier. To cull obsolete x-ray films from client files in line with current guidelines. To download / import images from the mobile screening units into the PACS system. To liaise with other team members, hospital departments and other hospitals to retrieve previous images when required. To assist in image checking and sorting. To work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team. Driving duties to static and mobile sites across Herefordshire and Worcestershire To answer telephone calls politely and efficiently and to refer enquiries on to more senior staff when appropriate To participate in the Quality Assurance Programme within the department. To ensure the effective use of resources. To liaise with the radiographers on stock levels. To participate in appraisal and work to achieve agreed set objectives To participate in departmental meetings. To attend training/development courses as appropriate and take every reasonable opportunity to maintain and improve knowledge and competence. To participate in the training of other staff with regard to induction and orientation and to provide support to less experienced or new members of staff. To behave in a professional manner, upholding the reputation of the Directorate and Trust. To work at all times in a safe and responsible manner, ensuring that his/her own work practices comply with Unit and Directorate Policies on Health and Safety, COSSH, Security and Radiation Protection, and that any hazards are brought to the attention of the Radiographer in Charge. To ensure that you have read, understood and signed the local radiation rules. To ensure that any problems are brought to the attention of the Superintendent Radiographer / Radiographer in charge.as promptly as possible. To liaise with other disciplines in the Trust and to foster good communications within the department and the hospital. Any other Ad Hoc duties that may be required. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working in a healthcare environment. - Use of Microsoft Office Systems. - Experience of working with confidential and sensitive information. **Desirable** - Experience of working in a healthcare environment. - Experience of working within a Breast Imaging department. - Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team. - Experience with NBSS and/or CRIS Computer software packages. ### Qualifications **Essential** - A good basic education. Educated to GCSE/ O Level - Good level of spoken and written English. - Good standard of numeracy **Desirable** - NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or Business Administration. ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Empathy with clients and the ability to provide a high standard of patient care. - Ability to cope with working in an emotive and sometimes challenging environment - Flexible attitude to departmental duties. - Demonstrates commitment to own personal/professional development - Ability to carry out concurrent activities. - Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels. - Attention to detail. - Willing and able to cross-site work between Worcester Breast Imaging Unit and Alexandra Breast Unit. - Willing and able to drive to multiple sites during the working day. ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of the NHS Breast Screening Programme and Breast diagnostic services. - Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels. - Ability to communicate sensitive information in an emotive atmosphere. - Empathy with service users and the ability to always provide a high standard of care. - IT skills. - Variety of clinical skills. - Able to demonstrate good organisational skills. - Attention to detail. - Flexible attitude to departmental duties. **Desirable** - Desire for further personal development. - Experience of coaching others. ## Documents - [Person Spec (DOCX, 228 KB)](document:2990408) - [Job Description (DOCX, 232 KB)](document:2990409) - [organisational chart (DOCX, 352 KB)](document:2990407) - [DBS Applicant Costs Infomation (PDF, 154 KB)](document:2990410) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.