Trainee Breast Clinician

6 months ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

During this 3-year WTE training programme the post holder will develop all the necessary knowledge and skills to provide clinical and imaging expertise in symptomatic and screening services and to lead family history breast clinics.

This post is not designed for established breast clinicians or those wishing to pursue a surgical career.

All medical staff in each Directorate are managerially accountable through their Lead Clinician to the Associate Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate. Consultants are key members of the Directorate team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient experience.

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 guided core biopsy)

Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans

Assisting in and ultimately running family history clinics assessing genetic risk and organising screening

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

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of both acute hospital and community services. It serves the local population of Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. The Great Western Hospital itself is a large modern hospital, which opened in December 2002 and in 2011 we integrated with Wiltshire community services.

The Trust’s overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:
Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.

Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.

Increase numbers of patients from Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.

To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.

To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.

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 guided core biopsy)

Undertaking clinical examinations and formulating diagnostic pathway plans

Assisting in and ultimately running family history clinics assessing genetic risk and organising screening

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

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



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