Breast Physician

BHR Hospitals; Ilford; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Barking Havering Redbridge University Trust (BHRUT) is seeking a Breast Health Unit clinician to provide breast care across the Trust, primarily based at King George Hospital in Ilford.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care in diagnostic, one-stop and family history clinics, and to manage benign breast conditions autonomously.

The post is full-time, offers a competitive salary (£63,696–£76,582) and supports flexible working where service needs allow.

Qualifications

• Full or limited GMC registration in the UK.
• Higher degree required.
• Higher surgical or breast-related qualification.
• Minimum 3 years recent UK breast department experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide breast care across the BHU's diagnostic, one-stop and family history clinics.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care.
• Autonomous practitioner in managing benign breast conditions.
• Be able to initiate appropriate and timely responses to patient cues and coordinate radiological investigations.

Skills

Breast care experience

Clinic management

Emergency surgery experience

Education

GMC registration

Higher degree

Breast surgical qualification

Job description

Site Surgery Medical Staffing Town Ilford Salary £63,696 - £76,582 Per Annum HCA inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2026 23:59

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This post is full time and is to provide breast care across the Trust but is primarily based at King George Hospital.

The postholder will be required to work closely with the multidisciplinary team to facilitate the provision of high-quality care for all patients attending the Breast Health Unit’s (BHU) diagnostic, one stop and family history clinics which will include history taking, clinical breast examinations, requesting radiological investigations etc.

The post holder will provide a high quality, responsive service to Barking Havering Redbridge University Trust (BHRUT) that assumes responsibility for the patients within the catchment area in co‑operation with consultant and resident colleagues in the BHU and other clinical departments.

The postholder will act as an autonomous practitioner in managing and providing advice regarding benign breast conditions and demonstrate safe critical decision-making in the clinical decision-making process and be able to initiate appropriate and timely response to patient reported cues.

Main duties of the job

The BHU covers all aspects of breast cancer care including screening, symptomatic, risk related care and reconstructive surgery. The BHU (run within the Elm Unit at King George Hospital) has a Multi-Disciplinary Team which is part of the London Cancer Network and delivers:

- Symptomatic One Stop clinics

- Breast Surgery including reconstructive surgery for symptomatic & screening patients

- Oncology service (Oncology Clinics and Chemotherapy service)

- Current future plans to commence a Mastalgia service and provision of Patient Stratified Follow Ups (PSFU)

BHRUT also currently has long standing arrangements with Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford to provide reconstructive surgery (including microvascular procedures) for breast cancer patients. Breast surgeons from BHRUT operate in conjunction with plastic surgeons at Broomfield ospital during the Hospital to provide this service. Two of the Breast surgeons currently provide Oncoplastic and reconstruction services at King George Hospital itself.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Full or limited registration with GMC
• Higher Degree
• Higher surgical or Breast related qualification

Skills/ Abilities

• At least 3 years very recent experience working in a breast department setting in the UK
• Able to manage breast new and follow-up clinics semi-independently
• Experience in managing emergency surgical patients

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Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working or job sharing where service needs allow.

Pre-employment checks
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Inclusion
BHRUT is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Applicants who declare a disability under the Equality Act 2010 or identify as a Care Leaver and choose to be considered under our Disability Confident or Care Leaver schemes will be guaranteed an interview where they meet the essential criteria.

Safeguarding
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We have a wide range of flexible, temporary and part-time opportunities.