Specialist Grade Breast Clinician

Job overview

This is a post to work as a member of the Breast Imaging Department at The Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, rated as Outstanding by the CQC.

This post forms part of a sustained development plan in Breast imaging to meet rising demand. The successful candidate will join a cohesive breast imaging team in a dedicated breast unit for symptomatic and screening services based at our Mermaid Centre - an outpatient unit dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of breast disease.

The successful candidate will be a GMC registered doctor and will have completed the RCR/ NBIA breast clinician training program with credentialling or demonstrate equivalent post graduate breast imaging qualifications along with relevant breast imaging experience.

Main duties of the job

As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:

• Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including: Interpretation of screening mammograms New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment) Screening assessment clinics Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound and stereotactic guided core biopsy)
• Interpretation of screening mammograms
• New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
• Screening assessment clinics
• Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound and stereotactic guided core biopsy)
• Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
• Participating in MDT meetings
• Optimising patient management
• Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
• Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
• Collaborating in research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Occupational Health clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
• Right to work in the UK

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We reserve the right to close this advert early.

We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.

We may be able to offer sponsorship but this is not guaranteed.