Job summary
- Main area
- Breast Care Services
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Cross site BSU and other community sites
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 320-CDCS-3824
- Employer
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Derby Hospital
- Town
- Derby
- Salary
- £24,465 pro rata pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/09/2025
Employer heading

Radiographic Assistant
Band 2
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.
With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.
As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.
Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme
To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.
if you are blind or visually impaired and require application material in an alternative format- such as Braille, large print, audio or accessible electronic formats or you require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466
Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.
Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;
Job overview
This role is open to female applicants only due to the sensitivity of the role. This is a genuine occupational requirement (GOR) (The Equality Act 2010 - Section 9)
The Derby/Burton Breast Unit is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Imaging Department Assistant to join the Breast Service hosted by UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton) to work across all sites.
Primarily covering Breast Pain services in locations across Derbyshire and Staffordshire. Travel will be expected.
The Imaging Department Assistant role is at the foundation of our ability to make the difference to our patients. Importantly they provide the cement that binds our Imaging Services together, across our dynamic and expanding department. They are often the first point of contact for our patients, this may be face to face or by telephone. Good communication skills are essential.
The successful candidate will work alongside our multi-professional team assisting in clinics and providing support in clinic for our diagnostic and surgical consultants in ultrasound and clinical outpatient rooms.
Supporting our national award-winning Breast Pain service in the community.
Main duties of the job
We are a progressive forward-thinking department with a positive approach at meeting and delivering the current challenges of the NHS. You would join a team of Breast Service staff, predominantly supporting the Advanced Nurse Practitioners within the Breast Pain Services.
- Assist with the running of clinics ensuring patients flow through the clinics in an organised and efficient manner.
- Provide chaperone duties for clinical examinations.
- Ensure clinic paperwork has been correctly filled in and filed in the patient record.
- Ensure clinic rooms are correctly stocked.
- Provide patients with Breast Care leaflets and ordering of leaflets required.
The Imaging Department Assistant 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).
In addition to the above duties-
- Assist clinicians when they are performing biopsies, ultrasound, drainages and other procedures as required when working at Royal Derby Hospital/Queens Hospital Burton- Breast Care Units.
Closing date of applications: 12 September 2025
Interview date: 25 September 2025
Working for our organisation
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, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a 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.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Good basic education
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 2/3 in Health care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous acute experience/evidence of caring person
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of dealing with people
Skills
Essential criteria
- Appropriate skills i.e typing/telelphone skills/manual handling/phlebotomy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of role
- Awareness of UHDB attributes
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of the Breast Care Services
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dawn Challinor
- Job title
- Breast Care Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01283 511511
- Additional information
01283 511511 Ext 2158 - for queries at Queens Hospital Burton
Claire Myers - [email protected] or 01332 789476 for queries at Royal Derby Hospital
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