Advanced Practitioner – Breast Services.
Go back Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT.
The closing date is 10 June 2026
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Breast imaging team.
Are you an independent autonomous practitioner with experience of Breast Ultrasound, Image Interpretation and Breast Interventional procedures, who can take a lead role in clinical decision‑making while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team?
You will provide expert clinical assessment, differential diagnosis, while offering guidance and support to junior colleagues.
This senior role also includes delivering advanced clinical practice, clinical leadership, supervision, mentorship and support to multidisciplinary professionals, including ACPs, junior medical staff and nursing staff across all grades.
If this sounds like you, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
Doncaster has embraced the 4 tier model using a mixture of Assistant Practitioners, Mammographers ( with extended roles ) and Advanced Practitioners who perform a mixture of film reading, Interventional Biopsies & Breast Ultrasound. We are committed to role extension and continuing professional development.
The department provides a full symptomatic and breast screening service spread over 3 sites:
- Jasmine Unit at Doncaster Royal Infirmary – Provides 4 Fast Track, 2 Assessment & 2 Surveillance / Family History Clinics per week and includes 2 new GE Logic E10 ultrasound scanners and 2 Siemens Inspiration mammogram machines with PRIME Technology upgraded to state of the art MAMMOMAT Revelation with 50 HD Breast Tomosynthesis.
- The Princess Diana Unit at Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop provides 2 fast track clinics, 2 screening days, 1 assessment & 1 surveillance / family history clinic and includes 1 new GE Logic E10 ultrasound scanner and both the Siemens Inspiration mammogram machine & the MAMMOMAT Revelation with 50 HD Breast Tomosynthesis.
- Devonshire House is our new dedicated static screening unit close to the centre of Doncaster and railway station where Siemens Inspiration with PRIME Technology is currently being installed. Currently we run screening clinics every day from 8 -4.30pm, Monday – Friday.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:
- Extensive range of learning opportunities
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
- NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
- Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
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Please note that from 9th April 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
- Significant experience in breast imaging, with demonstrable advanced and autonomous clinical practice in mammography and breast ultrasound.
- Evidence of advanced clinical decision-making in complex and emotive situations, including delivery of patient‑centred care to women receiving difficult or unexpected outcome
- DCR or BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
- Health Care Professional and registered with HCPC with relevant clinical experience
- Postgraduate qualification(s) relevant to breast imaging, such as: Breast Ultrasound, Image interpretation and Interventional breast procedures
- Experience working in both breast screening and symptomatic services
- Involvement with Quality Assurance processes at local, regional, or national level.
- Training or qualifications in leadership, education, audit, or quality improvement
Personal Attributes & Skills
- Ability to work autonomously while fostering effective collaborative relationships across the MDT
- Advanced communication skills, including the ability to manage complex, sensitive, or emotionally AF, In, P charged interactions with patients and relatives
- Demonstrates professional authority, emotional intelligence, and resilience appropriate to a senior clinical role
- Ability to influence, motivate, and support others, acting as a positive role model within the service
- Commitment to staff development and training
- Flexible in order to meet the needs of the service
- Competent and confident approach to practice with ability to work under pressure
Knowledge & Experience
- Recognised autonomous practitioner with expert knowledge of: NHS Breast Screening Programme policies and standards Breast imaging equipment and techniques
- Ability to organise and manage departmental workload across multiple sites, contributing to service resilience and capacity
- Breadth of experience in gathering, analysing and disseminating information – clinical, education or research/ evaluation based
- Demonstrates ability to meet timeframes and relevant key performance indicators
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.
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
£57,528 to £64,750 a year (Pro Rata Per Annum)
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