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.
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.
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.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
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
  Please Note: Previous applicants should not apply

Please refer the Job description for details