Lead Radiographer

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading team as a Lead Radiographer at the Nottingham Breast Institute, part of a multi-disciplinary team providing symptomatic and screening services. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your leadership skills while ensuring high-quality patient care in a supportive environment. Applicants must possess a relevant degree, HCPC registration, and have substantial experience in mammography.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of the NHS Breast Screening Service.
• Experience as a mammographer within the NHS.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership for the breast imaging team.
• Communicate effectively with patients and the team.
• Supervise daily operations and ensure smooth running of clinics.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Education

BSc Degree in Diagnostic Radiography

Post Graduate Award in Mammography Practice

Registered Practitioner with HCPC

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Lead Radiographer

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Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a team and influence the delivery of breast imaging services? An exciting secondment opportunity to cover maternity leave has arisen for an experienced and driven radiographer looking to further develop their leadership skills to join the team at the Nottingham Breast Institute.

The successful candidate will be part of a multi-disciplinary breast team based at the City Hospital Campus of the Nottingham University HospitalsNHS Trust. You will work in both clinical and admin roles providing operational and strategic leadership for the breast imagingteam in the delivery of both the symptomatic and breast screening services,and have the opportunity to advance your leadership skills by leading the daily supervision of the breast imaging mammography team.

You will hold a Masters level mammography qualification (UK recognised) and be HCPC registered.

Mammography posts have a gendered protected character, due to the nature of the work. This is an occupational requirement, as a result the post is exempt under section 9; part 1 of the Equality Act 2010 and therefore only female applicants should apply.

Main duties of the job

You will have a sound knowledge of the NHS Breast Screening Service and significant experience of working as a mammographer within the NHSbreast screening and symptomatic services.

You will have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, their families and health professionals. You willprovide the daily operational leadership for the mammography team so previous experience in a supervisory capacityand a desire to develop your leadership skills further are essential.

You will need to be able to think quickly and strategically to delegate tasks appropriately as you problem solve and advise the team on a range of equipment and workflow issues to ensure the daily clinics run smoothly and that the team are well informed and supported. You will haveconsiderable experience of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.

As a mammographer you will work clinically within both screening and symptomatic clinics.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Degree Diagnostic Radiography or DCR (Diploma of College of Radiography)
• Post Graduate Award in Mammography Practice (Masters level), or equivalent
• Registered Practitioner with Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Experience

• Significant experience of working as a mammographer within the breast screening and symptomatic service.
• Experience of leading a team or project.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft office packages e.g. power point / excel to produce reports, analyse statistics etc.
• Experience of finance and budgetary responsibilities

Communication & relationships

• Ablility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, including management
• Ablility to delegate appropriately
• Ability to communicate and negotiate with external personnel
• Ability to initiate, communicate and develop ideas

analytical

• Ablility to problem solve and advise staff on complex cases, taking into account a variety of options
• Ablility to judge when to escalate.
• Ability to produce and interpret verbal and numerical information
• Ability to evaluate the long term strategic development of the screening service.

Planning and organisation

• Ability to prioritise own workload.
• Ability to manage a series of concurrent and consecutive pieces of work.
• Ability to adapt to interruptions and changing priorities.
• Ablility to manage own time to enable management and clinical work to be undertaken in a timely manner

Physical skills

• Access to a car for work purposes to travel between remote screening locations

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham Breast Institute, City Hospital

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham Breast Institute, City Hospital