Band 6 Mammographer

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS foundation trust as a Band 6 Radiographer, providing essential breast screening services in a multidisciplinary team. This role offers career progression, flexible shifts, and a chance to impact patient care positively. Excellent candidate qualifications include HCPC registration and a BSc in Radiography.

Benefits

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Flexible shifts and wellbeing resources

Paid annual leave

Qualifications

• State Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Evidence of recent extensive post-registration experience at Band 5.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the provision of a breast screening imaging and diagnostic service.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing screening and symptomatic mammography.
• Assist with procedures e.g. biopsies in the Radiology Department.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Teamwork

Education

BSc Degree in Radiography

Job description

ShiftPatterns: 37.5 hours Mon-Fri8am-4.30pm

Band:6

Whymight this job interest you?

RoyalBerkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospitalfoundation trusts in the country and the main provider of acute and specialistcare services for West Berkshire. With seven sites, the Trust employsapproximately 6,500 staff and serves a population of around 1,000,000 people.

Theyprovide acute medical and surgical services to Reading, Wokingham and WestBerkshire and specialist services such as cancer, dialysis and eye surgery to awider population across Berkshire and its borders.

Main duties of the job

• You will participate in the provision of a breast screening imaging and diagnostic service for the West Berkshire Breast Screening Service and the Symptomatic Breast Service.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing Screening and Symptomatic mammography including tomosynthesis, biopsy, VAB, VAE and localisation including Magseed.
• In the absence of a Radiologist use experience and judgement of previous cases to take further images to demonstrate an area of abnormality.
• Lay-up trolleys for intervention and assist with the procedures e.g. biopsies.
• You will be required to work within the Radiology Department, the Breast Screening Unit and on the community based Mobile Screening Unit(s).

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• State Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• BSc Degree in Radiography or equivalent radiographic qualification, DCR(R).

Experience

• Evidence of recent and extensive post-registration experience at Band 5.
• Proven clinical experience across a range of radiographic equipment and techniques.

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.