Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge in a friendly and supportive Breast Care Unit that’s committed to maintaining exceptional clinical standards and happy staff? You may just have found it!

We have a vacancy for band 5/band 6 Qualified/Trainee Mammographer.

You must be a Radiographer who is qualified and has some experience in Mammography. You’ll be undertaking both screening and symptomatic aspects of the role and should have experience of both. Crucially you must be someone who puts patients first and has a strong commitment to quality and safety; we want our patients to remember us as the place where they were not only seen and treated quickly and efficiently, but where they were treated with dignity, compassion and respect. Essentially, you must also be committed to working with others to create the best outcomes possible for our patients; we really want a team member who understands what team working means.

As a team we’re committed to developing careers, not just offering jobs and currently have 3 Advanced Practitioner Radiographers; 2 undertake film reporting and 1 carries out stereotactic procedures, skills we want to continue to build in our workforce. We all participate in working some evening screening sessions and this is an essential aspect of the role.

If this sounds like the change you’ve been looking for them please give us a call or pop in for a look around the unit.

Main duties of the job

Our Unit, in Leighton Hospital, South Cheshire is an excellent, recently refurbished environment with two mammography rooms equipped with Siemens Inspiration units. We have a stereo biopsy unit and primarily carry out Encor vacuum assisted procedures. We currently have one ultrasound room with a Toshiba Aplio machine.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients.  We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.