Associate Practitioner Mammography

Job summary

The Associate Practitioner in Mammography, is a trainee post in the Breast Screening Department, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester.

You will undertake a 1 year training course, that will enable you to take mammograms mainly on the Breast Screening mobile vans, situated around Hampshire, but also at Winchester hospital, in symptomatic clinics.

You will work as part of the Breast screening team, providing a high quality screening service to the women of Hampshire.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post are taking mammograms, working as an assistant in the breast ultrasound room, working in the office, and processing images on PACS.

The Candidate must have good communication skills, be able and willing to complete the training, and enjoy working with other people within the team.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.