Breast Clinician

Job summary

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of both acute hospital and community services. It serves the local population of Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. The Great Western Hospital itself is a large modern hospital, which opened in December 2002 and in 2011 we integrated with Wiltshire community services.

The Trust's overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:

• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• Increase numbers of patients from Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.

Main duties of the job

All medical staff in each Directorate are managerially accountable through their Lead Clinician to the Associate Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate. Consultants are key members of the Directorate team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient experience.

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)
• 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
• Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
• Experience of working in and running family history clinics and a willingness to develop this service within the trust.

About us

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

Service: We will put our patients first

Teamwork: We will work together

Ambition: We will aspire to provide the best service

Respect: We will act with integrity

Date posted: 16 April 2025

Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade: Specialty Doctor

Salary: £59,175 to £95,400 a year Per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 249-7154933

Job locations: Great Western Hospital, Marlborough Road, Swindon, SN3 6BB

Job responsibilities

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)
• 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
• Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
• Experience of working in and running family history clinics and a willingness to develop this service within the trust.

Professional Responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to work within the provisions as set out by the GMC. Adherence with GMC guidance regarding good medical practice, in addition to local and national clinical governance and probity guidance is essential. For those working within the NHSBSP, the document, Quality Assurance Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening Radiology Second edition NHSBSP Publication No 59 should be the basis of the standard expected of Breast Clinicians at completion of imaging training. Clinical workload will vary during the training programme but will always revolve around a functional multi-disciplinary team approach to patient management.

The Trust supports the involvement in external professional work such as examining or external professional committees. These will be discussed with the AMD and form part of the job plan.

Clinical Governance and Audit

The post holder is expected to participate in the Trust's clinical effectiveness activities, and to maintain and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will lead the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.

The post holder along with the Lead Clinician, Associate Medical Director and General Manager will ensure the Directorate meets the targets set out in the Trust's Clinical Governance and Risk Strategy, including:

• Production of a Divisional annual clinical governance plan.
• Production of a Divisional quality strategy.
• Production of a Divisional quarterly report to the Trust's Clinical Governance and Risk Committee.
• Ensuring targets within the plan are met, including:
• - Adoption of evidence-based practice including compliance with government guidance, e.g. NICE and NSFs
• - Establishment and implementation of a Divisional clinical audit programme
• - Completion of risk assessments as required and compliance with the Trust's risk management policies and strategies including controls assurance standards
• - Encouraging research and development
• - Ensuring, through the General Manager, in association with the Division of Workforce and Education, that Divisional staff meet the education and training targets agreed within the Trust's annual plan.
• - Ensuring through the General Manager that complaints management is timely and effective including implementing action plans relating to individual complaints.
• - Contributing to workforce planning to ensure timely availability of appropriate clinical skills to maintain excellence in patient care.

Further details can be found in the attached Job Description

Please Note: Previous applicants should not apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• GMC Registration with a license to Practice
• Credential in Breast Disease (trainees in their final three months of training are invited to apply)

Desirable:

• Full postgraduate examination (e.g. full MRCP (UK) or MRCPCH or MRCS or MRCGP) at the time of application
• Higher degrees including MSc, PhD or MD (where the research thesis is not part of first medical degree)

Experience

Essential:

• Evidence of excellent communication skills and managing patients with diverse presentations.
• Able to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems.
• Able to work without direct supervision where appropriate.
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.

Desirable:

• Evidence of participation in a communications skills training course.
• Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements.
• Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project or other activity which:
• Evidence of participation in a teaching course.

Knowledge

Essential:

• Demonstrates probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality).
• Capacity to monitor developing situations and anticipate issues.
• Understands, respects and demonstrates the values of the NHS Constitution (e.g. everyone counts; improving lives; commitment to quality of care; respect and dignity; working together for patients compassion).

Desirable:

• Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine.
• Evidence of achievement outside medicine.
• Evidence of altruistic behaviour e.g. voluntary work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Great Western Hospital, Marlborough Road, Swindon, SN3 6BB

Employer's website: https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/