Breast Clinician - (Specialty Doctor)

Job description

Job 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• GMC Registration with a license to Practice
• Credential in Breast Disease (trainees in their final three months of training are invited to apply)

Desirable

• Full postgraduate examination (e.g. full MRCP (UK) or MRCPCH or MRCS or MRCGP) at the time of application
• Higher degrees including MSc, PhD or MD (where the research thesis is not part of first medical degree

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of excellent communication skills and managing patients with diverse presentations.
• Able to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems.
• Able to work without direct supervision where appropriate.
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.

Desirable

• Evidence of participation in a communications skills training course.
• Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements
• Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project or other activity which:
• Evidence of participation in a teaching course

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality
• Capacity to monitor developing situations and anticipate issues.
• Understands, respects and demonstrates the values of the NHS Constitution (e.g. everyone counts; improving lives; commitment to quality of care; respect and dignity; working together for patients compassion.
• Demonstrates probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality)
• oCommitment to chosen career for example through being able to demonstrate some of the following:

Desirable

• Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine
• Evidence of achievement outside medicine
• Evidence of altruistic behaviour e.g. voluntary work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)