Mammographers

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Undertake a specialised clinical caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including complex patients, using clinical reasoning skills, to provide daily patient assessment and treatment, supporting appropriate and early discharge.

2. Obtain verbal informed consent from patients, or their carers.

3. Follow and proposes changes to standards and policies for clinical practice to ensure a co-ordinated and effective service. This includes infection prevention.

4. Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective communication and facilitate appropriate patient care.

5. Communicate sensitive information to patients/carers/staff, where there may be barriers to communication ensuring confidentiality and sensitivity to the audiences level of understanding and prior knowledge.

6. Be responsible for keeping accurate and timely written and electronic patient records and statistical information. This may include written reports of functional ability and specialist assessments.

7. Manage own time by prioritising competing service requirements, seeking guidance from senior staff where necessary.

8. Day to day supervision, including training, of relevant team members when required including practical, theoretical and clinical teaching of new staff entering speciality, medical and nursing students.

9. Ensure that all equipment is in good working order and ready for immediate use and report any defective equipment or provision of supplies to managers.

1. Keep up to date with clinical developments, through audit and research, and participate in innovation and change concerned with improving the standards of care for patients.

2. Report and act on adverse incidents.

3. Managing own workload and organisation of colleagues as a daily duty co-ordinator and contribute to staff rotas and daily planning.

4. Carry out front line patient care and mammographic examinations essential to diagnosis and treatment. Be able to communicate with and reassure patients and deal with complex distressing situations such as patients who have had a recent cancer diagnosis.

5. Use dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills for accurate positioning and adapting technique for patients with additional needs.

6. Responsible for quality assurance of imaging and determining if additional views or repeats are necessary.

7. Assess the ability of patients who undergo mammographic examinations and modify techniques accordingly such as for patients in additional needs clinics.

8. Using own initiative, respond to patients and /or carers who are anxious about their condition and its consequences and be able to communicate with patients regarding complaints.

9. Ensure correct justification of mammographic procedures keeping radiation doses as low as reasonably achievable.

10. Responsible for adjusting exposure factors based on breast thickness for implant in situ.

11. Ensure comfort for patients fitted with cardiac devices adjusting technique as required.

12. Undertake tomosynthesis mammograms as well as paddle and magnification views as necessary.

Responsible for checking the position of the wire placement prior to surgery, including different views such as a lateral view

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential
• Degree in Radiotherapy diagnostic or therapeutic or equivalent
• Post Graduate Qualification in Mammography
• HCPC registered
• Sound knowledge of IR(me)R 2000, IRR regulations and clinical governance
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP and Quality Assurance Programmes (QA)
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Experience of working in a breast screening unit

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Tremona Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 6YD

Employer's website

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