Overview
The Derby/Burton Breast Unit is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Imaging Department Assistant to join the Breast Service hosted by UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton) to work across all sites.
Primarily covering Breast Pain services in locations across Derbyshire and Staffordshire. Travel will be expected.
The Imaging Department Assistant role is at the foundation of our ability to make the difference to our patients. Importantly they provide the cement that binds our Imaging Services together, across our dynamic and expanding department. They are often the first point of contact for our patients, this may be face to face or by telephone. Good communication skills are essential.
The successful candidate will work alongside our multi-professional team assisting in clinics and providing support in clinic for our diagnostic and surgical consultants in ultrasound and clinical outpatient rooms.
Supporting our national award-winning Breast Pain service in the community.
We are a progressive forward-thinking department with a positive approach at meeting and delivering the current challenges of the NHS. You would join a team of Breast Service staff, predominantly supporting the Advanced Nurse Practitioners within the Breast Pain Services.
Responsibilities
* Assist with the running of clinics ensuring patients flow through the clinics in an organised and efficient manner.
* Provide chaperone duties for clinical examinations.
* Ensure clinic paperwork has been correctly filled in and filed in the patient record.
* Ensure clinic rooms are correctly stocked.
* Provide patients with Breast Care leaflets and ordering of leaflets required.
* The Imaging Department Assistant would join a team of Breast Service staff and Radiographers to provide symptomatic clinics and a screening service as part of the NBSS (National Breast Screening Service).
* Assist clinicians when they are performing biopsies, ultrasound, drainages and other procedures as required when working at Royal Derby Hospital/Queens Hospital Burton- Breast Care Units.
Requirements
There is a requirement to travel across sites to cover clinics and breast pain services. Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team are essential. The role supports the Breast Pain Services and NBSS activities as described above.
Other details
Closing date of applications: 12 September 2025
Interview date: 25 September 2025
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025
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