Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health Screening
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-LCO-7510549*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wythenshawe Hospital
- Town
- Manchester,
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior AAA Screening Technician
Band 5
Job overview
We're looking for an experienced, accredited AAA Screening Technician to provide day-to-day leadership and supervision to our screening team. You'll combine hands-on clinical practice with team coordination, ensuring our community-based screening service delivers safe, high-quality care to eligible men across our region.
Main duties of the job
Supervise and support AAA Screening Technicians, providing clinical leadership and first-line management
Coordinate community screening clinics, manage rotas, and ensure efficient service delivery
Conduct quality assurance assessments of screening sites to National Guidelines
Maintain your AAA screening skills, participating fully in the clinical rota
Monitor performance data, manage resources, and support service development
Lead on implementing and reviewing fail-safes to ensure patient safety
What We're Looking For:
Accredited AAA Screening Technician with current ultrasound competencies
Experience in AAA screening and abdominal aortic ultrasound
Supervisory or leadership experience (desirable)
Excellent communication and organisational skills
Full UK driving license and access to vehicle with business insurance
Commitment to equity of access and patient-centered care
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited with an unexpired Level 3 AAA Health Screener Diploma
- Educated to GCSE level with 5 grade ‘C’ or equivalent qualifications
- Ongoing commitment to self-development training or education.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of health improvement and the role of screening as part of the NHS.
- Demonstrate ability to empathise, communicate sympathetically and sensitively with people and to have an understanding of the implications of working with people from different cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
- Understands abdominal aortic aneurysms and the associated health pathways
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of dealing with members of the public in a face-to-face role.
- Experience of conducting AAA Screening scans and delivering AAA diagnosis to patients and their family/carers
- Experience of working unsupervised; being independently responsible for time management, able to achieve the objectives of the post and make correct decisions within a clear set of guidelines
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of administration practices and procedures in terms of accuracy and confidentiality
- Clear and concise verbal communication skills - experience of communicating unfamiliar and/or sensitive information.
- Able to use Microsoft technology packages and the relevant AAA information software.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Aldridge
- Job title
- AAA Screening Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 291 5715
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