Job summary
- Main area
- Mammographer
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7426730GH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Radiographer (Mammography)
NHS AFC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
The Northumbria symptomatic breast service operates over three base sites, Wansbeck General, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals, 5 days per week, covering an 8- 4 working day. The successful candidate will be confident in performing all standard and additional mammography views, and will be able to travel to all sites throughout the week.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team of Radiographers who specialize in mammography, performing mammograms for the one
stop clinic and annual review programme. The successful candidate will also assist with stereo and US guided vacuum biopsy.
Essential Criteria.
- PGc mammography certificate.
- Bsc Radiography Degree.
- HPC Registration.
- Full time is desirable but part time hours will be considered for the successful candidate
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
Main duties of the job
Providing a mammographic service cross trust at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham hospitals.Apply specialist knowledge to carry out mammography examinations to a high standard.
To ensure that patient care and comfort are maintained to a high standard at all times.
To treat all patients with empathy to persuade, influence and encourage their cooperation in the examination.
To liaise and communicate effectively with all colleagues, patients and visitors in a professional manner, thus promoting good relations.
Apply all local instructions relating to and demonstrate an understanding of Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) and
Health and Safety legislation to ensure a safe working environment at all times.
If competent to, continue to participate in and provide a general radiographic service.
Due to the sensitive nature of this post, only female applicants will be considered (this provision applies under Section 7(2)(b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975).
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics
from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in
England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people
greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide a mammographic service cross trust at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham hospitals.
Provide a high level of patient care and empathy, whilst dealing with distressed patients.
Apply specialist knowledge to mammography lists and adapting technique to individual patients, whilst ensuring care and comfort are maintained
to a high standard at all times.
To liaise and communicate effectively with all colleagues, patients and visitors in a professional manner, thus promoting good relations.
Apply all local instructions relating to and demonstrate an understanding of IR(ME)R and Health and Safety legislation to ensure a safe working
environment at all times.
Continue to participate in and provide a general radiographic service.
Knowledge and understanding of Trust and department policies and procedures.
To be proficient in the use of department computer system.
Must be capable to work unsupervised and single handed when required.
Supervise Assistant Practitioners, assistants and student Radiographers and verify examinations and checking the work carried out by them.
To liaise and communicate effectively with all colleagues, patients and visitors in a professional manner, thus promoting good relations.
Communicate with patients who may have difficulty in understanding or where English is not their first language. This will include communication
with patients who have learning disabilities, mental health problems, sedated patients, distressed elderly patients, children and patients with
severe injuries. Ensuring communication is delivered to patients in a sympathetic manner explaining the procedure to encourage cooperation in
the examination in order to acquire images of diagnostic quality using the lowest radiation dose possible.
To use empathy with patients to obtain sensitive information. E.g. L.M.P.
Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Radiography
- PGc Mammography Certificate
- HPC Registration
- Post Graduate qualification in mammography or willingness to work towards
- Proven attendance of study days and short courses attended
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Katie Quigley
- Job title
- Principle Breast Radiographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529754
- Additional information
Due to working cross trust, please contact me via email. [email protected]
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