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Job summary

Main area
Mammography
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
12 months (Fixed term/Secondment contract to cover maternity leave)
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday to Friday 7.5hrs per day)
Job ref
190-0245-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Hallamshire Hopsital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/05/2025 23:59
Interview date
21/05/2025

Employer heading

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Mammographer

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

We are looking for a suitably qualified mammographer to join our friendly breast imaging team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave. 

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, compassionate individual. The applicant must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The applicant must hold the post graduate certificate of competency in mammography.

Applicants must be female, this role has a “genuine occupational qualification” as an exception to the Equality Act 2010.

About Us

The breast imaging team includes four Consultant Radiologists, a skill mix of Clinical Imaging Specialists, Advanced Practitioners, Radiographers and Assistant practitioners. The department is part of the Radiology department and has a close working relationship with the department of surgery.

Our busy breast imaging service delivers high quality breast imaging, whilst providing excellent quality patient care and experience. The service performs approximately 20,000 screening mammograms per year as part of the NHS breast screening programme together with imaging for the breast symptomatic service.

The Radiology department has gained QSI accreditation.

The directorate is committed to training and development and encourages all aspects of CPD and role extension/advanced practice. The service benefits from having a training lead to co-ordinate all aspects of training.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role are to work as a mammographer in the breast screening and symptomatic breast imaging department providing a high quality and responsive mammography service as part of a multi-disciplinary team, whilst maintaining and monitoring performance as set out by the NHS breast screening programme to enable standards to be met.

  • To ensure that safe practice is carried out in accordance with the Unit’s protocols.
  • To acquire and maintain an excellent level of skill & knowledge, in all aspects of breast imaging.
  • To maintain positive professional links with other medical and non-medical staff to promote good service and standards within the radiographic speciality of mammography. 

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of twelve months (until 12/06/2026) due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc (Hons) Radiography or Diploma of the College of Radiographers HCPC Registration
  • HCPC Registration
  • Post qualification experience CPD Portfolio or relevant evidence
  • Post Graduate Award in Mammography Practice or Post Graduate Certificate of Competence in Mammography

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in carrying out mammography as part of the NHSBSP
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a symptomatic and screening assessment clinic Stereotactic, upright and prone examinations

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • IT literate, ability to use Internet and good working knowledge relevant computer applications. (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, Database. )
  • Working Knowledge of the National Breast Screening System (NBSS) and National Breast screening programme
  • Ability to manage demanding and challenging workload, work under pressure and prioritise workload
Desirable criteria
  • Participate in professional lectures, study days and workshops

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Professional manner with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent and effective communication skills.
  • Ability to work as a team member.
Desirable criteria
  • A willingness to accept and promote service change to meet the demands of health service delivery.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Louise McCann
Job title
Breast Imaging Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 271 1923
Additional information

Louise McCann

Breast Imaging Manager

Email: [email protected]

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