Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Breast Consultant Radiographer
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Job Overview
This full-time, fixed-term Consultant Radiographer role offers the chance to contribute meaningfully to both symptomatic and screening services within Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. Secondment requests are welcome.
You’ll work across the full breadth of breast imaging, including the NHS Breast Screening Programme, within a service known for high clinical standards and a strong commitment to patient care. The role suits professionals who bring expertise, positivity, and a patient-focused approach, and who want to be part of a forward-thinking Breast Cancer service.
What you’ll be part of
- A major regional service delivering screening and symptomatic care across Southmead Hospital and Weston General Hospital.
- A varied clinical portfolio that includes the full range of breast imaging activities, with opportunities to contribute to teaching, audit, and service development.
- A collaborative clinical environment where Radiologists and Breast Clinicians work closely together, supported by a team with an excellent reputation for developing colleagues.
- A leading teaching hospital setting that offers exposure to complex cases, peer learning, and ongoing professional growth.
This role combines meaningful clinical impact with the support and development opportunities of one of the UK’s largest teaching hospitals, making it an excellent next step for clinicians who want to grow their skills while contributing to a high-performing service.
Main duties of the job
- The symptomatic breast work will involve one-stop clinics and further assessment of the recalled patients.
- Participation at MDT meetings.
- Depending on experience, the role may also involve ultrasound guided VAE.
- There would be an expectation that the successful candidate would become involved in training, guiding, mentoring, and continued professional development of Specialist Registrars in Radiology, Advanced Practitioners, and Consultant Radiographers.
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Working for our organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre, and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see job description for full duties and responsibilities.
Overview
- OSC, further assessment of recalled patients, MDT participation, and training.
Person specification
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Radiology or equivalent
- Certificate of Competence in Mammography or equivalent
- Post-graduate qualifications in Advanced Medical Imaging (Breast) including Clinical examination, Image interpretation, Breast ultrasound, and Interventional techniques
- Full registration with the GMC or equivalent
- Be a HCPC-registered practitioner, authorised under IR(ME)R, responsible for the justification and authorisation of medical exposures to ionising radiation
Desirable criteria
- Full master’s degree relevant to role or equivalent qualification
Experience
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Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working in a senior position within a breast imaging team
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of breast patients
- Ability to independently undertake all aspects of symptomatic and NHSBSP breast work
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit.
- Knowledge & understanding of the role of ethical committee
- Experience in research and audit
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team and form effective working relationships within a team
- Ability to inspire, motivate, and develop junior medical staff
- Ability to work independently as well as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- To balance individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust as a whole.
Important
- Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.
- Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
- As a guide, interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
- When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.
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