Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As an integral member of the breast care team, the successful candidate will be involved in:

• Delivering screening and symptomatic breast imaging services including:
  • Interpretation of screening mammograms
  • New patient symptomatic clinics (including clinical and imaging assessment)
  • Screening assessment clinics
  • Intervention (predominantly image-guided intervention such as ultrasound and stereotactic guided core biopsy)
• Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans
• Participating in MDT meetings
• Optimising patient management
• Communicating with the multidisciplinary team
• Undertaking audit and service improvement projects
• Collaborating in research
• Understanding of and adherence to clinical governance processes
• Experience of working in and running family history clinics and a willingness to develop this service within the trust.

Professional Responsibilities

 The post holder will be expected to work within the provisions as set out by the GMC. Adherence with GMC guidance regarding good medical practice, in addition to local and national clinical governance and probity guidance is essential. For those working within the NHSBSP, the document, “Quality Assurance Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening Radiology Second edition NHSBSP Publication No 59” should be the basis of the standard expected of Breast Clinicians at completion of imaging training. Clinical workload will vary during the training programme but will always revolve around a functional multi-disciplinary team approach to patient management.

 The Trust supports the involvement in external professional work such as examining or external professional committees.  These will be discussed with the AMD and form part of the job plan.

Clinical Governance and Audit

 The post holder is expected to participate in the Trust’s clinical effectiveness activities, and to maintain and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will lead the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.

 The post holder along with the Lead Clinician, Associate Medical Director and General Manager will ensure the Directorate meets the targets set out in the Trust’s Clinical Governance and Risk Strategy, including:

·         Production of a Divisional annual clinical governance plan.

·         Production of a Divisional quality strategy.

·         Production of a Divisional quarterly report to the Trust’s Clinical Governance and Risk Committee.

Ensuring targets within the plan are met, including:

-       Adoption of evidence-based practice including compliance with government guidance, e.g. NICE and NSFs

-       Establishment and implementation of a Divisional clinical audit programme

-       Completion of risk assessments as required and compliance with the Trust’s risk management policies and strategies including controls assurance standards

-       Encouraging research and development

-       Ensuring, through the General Manager, in association with the Division of Workforce and Education, that Divisional staff meet the education and training targets agreed within the Trust’s annual plan.

-       Ensuring through the General Manager that complaints management is timely and effective including implementing action plans relating to individual complaints.

-       Contributing to work force planning to ensure timely availability of appropriate clinical skills to maintain excellence in patient care.

Further details can be found in the attached Job Description