Advanced Practice Radiographer (Mammography)

Job summary

The Derby/Burton Breast Unit is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Practice Mammographer to join the Breast Service hosted by University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. We are a progressive forward thinking department who has a positive approach at meeting and delivering the current challenges of the NHS.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, self-motivated, and hard-working Radiographer to join our team. The main base for this role will be within Queens Hospital Burton and the Royal Derby Hospital - there are also multiple screening sites across Southern Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire. You will be expected to take part in screening and symptomatic work.

Applications from qualified mammographers who are not currently qualified in advanced practice will be considered. Training can be provided.

Salary will be at Band 6 level until qualified.

Main duties of the job

You would join a team of Breast Service staff and Radiographers to provide symptomatic clinics and a screening service as part of the NBSS (National Breast Screening Service) covering South East Staffordshire and Southern Derbyshire.

The Breast Service covers breast units at the Royal Derby Hospital and Queens Hospital Burton. Screening for the Breast Service covers Southern Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire.

You will be part of a small team of Advanced Practitioners within the Breast Service. Your Advanced Practice duties will include reading mammograms, performing mammographic biopsies, this will be alongside performing mammographic duties for both the screening and symptomatic breast service.

There will be an expectation of rotation between the Derby and Burton Breast Unit.

Closing date of advert: 2 April 2025

Date of interview: 16 April 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

UHDB Cross Sites

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

UHDB Cross Sites

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---