Mammography Technologist

Vacancy: Mammographer

Location: East London

Contract: Permanent

Hours / Full time: 37.5 hours per week / Full-Time

Salary: £Competitive

This is an exciting opportunity for a Mammographer to join our diagnostic clinical services in a purpose-built Specialist Diagnostics & Dental Centre. Featuring state-of-the-art facilities including MRI, CT, X-ray, and mammography, the centre will deliver a wide range of outpatient and diagnostic services across multiple specialities.

As a Clinician at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and every day.

Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art Clinical Training Facility, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of Bupa Campus, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe.

You'll be a HCPC registered Mammographer with significant post qualification experience in Mammography including biopsies. You'll be responsible for the daily running of the Mammography service in liaison with the Lead Mammographer. You'll form part of a team of senior radiographers and be responsible for delivering a high quality, safe service, and provide at all times world-class customer service.

About the Centre

The Centre's secondary care services including muscle, bone and joint, orthopaedics, pain and spinal, dental and maxillofacial, breast and gynaecology, dermatology, cardiac, musculoskeletal, spinal, and urology, ENT, and will be able to perform simple procedures onsite.

The diagnostic centre houses the latest state-of-the-art technology;

• 3T Siemens scanner
• Somatom Force CT scanner
• X-ray
• Ultrasound
• A serene women health unit providing one stop breast care services
• Gynae unit.

The centre provides rapid-access to numerous specialities, and is operational Monday to Friday 8:00am to 20:00pm, and Saturday 8:00am to 14:00pm .

You’ll help us make health happen by:

Reporting to the centre manager you will be working independently, but as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team within the clinic.

You'll provide breast screening service using our new state-of-the-art technology with Pristina, which is engineered for a better patient experience along the entire breast care pathway, from screening and diagnosis to treatment planning and monitoring. You’ll improve our customer journey by carrying out the screenings on-site on the day of health assessments, ensuring patient have a fast and efficient service from screening to treatment.

You'll show flexibility of shared tasks to ensure that we provide the best quality service and establishing good working relationships.

• Organise the daily work programme to ensure that the department runs efficiently.
• Work flexible hours if required to accommodate changing workload patterns of the Mammography service.
• Perform high quality examinations as required by referring physicians according to departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all patients being imaged receive a very high standard of care.
• Accurately analyse the acquired data, record results and produce high quality images for reporting.
• Ensure all equipment within the department is cared for and maintained, cleanliness is upheld and that all equipment faults are reported immediately.
• Maintain the efficient use of all resources, establish stock control systems and liaise with manufacturers and suppliers.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• A flexible and adaptive working attitude is crucial.
• Use your own initiative in responding to the needs of the service and have a strong focus on streamlining the patient pathway through the imaging department.
• Work closely with the Lead Mammographer to maintain and enhance the Breast imaging service we offer to our patients and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• BSc or DCR in Radiography (essential)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Mammography (essential)
• HCPC Registered (essential)
• Biopsies (essential)

Benefits:

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing.

• Payment of Professional Registration fees
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Access to Bupa Campus and our Clinical Training Facility to support your clinical career development
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
• Various other benefits and online discounts
• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately’.