All medical staff in each Directorate are managerially accountable through their Lead Clinician to the Associate Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate. Consultants are key members of the Directorate team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient experience.
As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:
+ Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including:
o Interpretation of screening mammograms
o New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
o Screening assessment clinics
o Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound and stereotactic guided core biopsy)
+ Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
+ Participating in MDT meetings
+ Optimising patient management
+ Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
+ Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
+ Collaborating in research
+ Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
+ Experience of working in and running family history clinics and a willingness to develop this service within the trust., As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:
+ Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including:
o Interpretation of screening mammograms
o New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
o Screening assessment clinics
o Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound and stereotactic guided core biopsy)
+ Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
+ Participating in MDT meetings
+ Optimising patient management
+ Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
+ Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
+ Collaborating in research
+ Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
+ Experience of working in and running family history clinics and a willingness to develop this service within the trust.
Professional Responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work within the provisions as set out by the GMC. Adherence with GMC guidance regarding good medical practice, in addition to local and national clinical governance and probity guidance is essential. For those working within the NHSBSP, the document, "Quality Assurance Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening Radiology Second edition NHSBSP Publication No 59" should be the basis of the standard expected of Breast Clinicians at completion of imaging training. Clinical workload will vary during the training programme but will always revolve around a functional multi-disciplinary team approach to patient management.
The Trust supports the involvement in external professional work such as examining or external professional committees. These will be discussed with the AMD and form part of the job plan.
Clinical Governance and Audit
The post holder is expected to participate in the Trust's clinical effectiveness activities, and to maintain and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will lead the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.
The post holder along with the Lead Clinician, Associate Medical Director and General Manager will ensure the Directorate meets the targets set out in the Trust's Clinical Governance and Risk Strategy, including:
· Production of a Divisional annual clinical governance plan.
· Production of a Divisional quality strategy.
· Production of a Divisional quarterly report to the Trust's Clinical Governance and Risk Committee.
Ensuring targets within the plan are met, including:
- Adoption of evidence-based practice including compliance with government guidance, e.g. NICE and NSFs
- Establishment and implementation of a Divisional clinical audit programme
- Completion of risk assessments as required and compliance with the Trust's risk management policies and strategies including controls assurance standards
- Encouraging research and development
- Ensuring, through the General Manager, in association with the Division of Workforce and Education, that Divisional staff meet the education and training targets agreed within the Trust's annual plan.
- Ensuring through the General Manager that complaints management is timely and effective including implementing action plans relating to individual complaints.
- Contributing to work force planning to ensure timely availability of appropriate clinical skills to maintain excellence in patient care.
Further details can be found in the attached Job Description
Thank you for expressing interest in this role. For further employer guidance, please review the attached supplementary applicant information.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications, subject to eligibility of the role for a skilled worker visa and salary requirements. Not all roles in the Trust are eligible for sponsorship.
Eligibility for this role requires:
+ Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
+ Qualification of the eligibility sponsorship criteria
From 4 April 2024, UK immigration policy changes has increased minimum salary levels for skilled workers. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.
Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £21.50 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £49.50 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.
We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.
Upon acceptance of a job offer, your information will be transferred to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records System. All communication regarding your application will be conducted via email; please ensure to check your junk/spam folders as emails may occasionally be filtered there.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible., Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of both acute hospital and community services. It serves the local population of Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. The Great Western Hospital itself is a large modern hospital, which opened in December 2002 and in 2011 we integrated with Wiltshire community services.
The Trust's overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:
+ Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
+ Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
+ Increase numbers of patients from Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.
+ To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
+ To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.