Consultant Breast Radiologist

Go back Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Consultant Breast Radiologist

The closing date is 07 September 2025

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Consultant Breast Radiologist to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at Kettering General Hospital.

This is an opportunity to take on a key leadership role, providing clinical direction to our dedicated radiography team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting our breast multidisciplinary team, with a strong focus on cross-sectional imaging and oncology care. You'll be part of a collaborative environment where innovation, patient-centered care, and professional development are highly valued.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will play a key role within a well established Breast Multidisciplinary Team, contributing to symptomatic and assessment clinics, cross-sectional imaging, and oncology case management. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a high-performing, patient-focused environment.

You will be fully supported by an experienced and cohesive clinical and managerial team, including the Breast Screening Programme Manager, Advanced Practitioners, and Consultant Radiographers all committed to delivering excellence in breast care.

The post holder will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the service through involvement in Screening Quality Assurance meetings, formal QA reviews, and Programme Management Board discussions focused on service performance and quality outcomes.

Our purpose-built, integrated Breast Care Unit offers facilities for both screening and symptomatic breast imaging services. Serving a population of over 55,000 women, the unit consistently meets and often exceeds NHSBSP key performance indicators, reflecting our commitment to high standards and best practice.

The breast surgery service is equally robust, with a team of four highly skilled Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons delivering seven 2-week wait symptomatic referral clinics per week, ensuring timely, coordinated, and comprehensive care for our patients.

About us

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courageous
• Accountable

Kettering General Hospital is a defence positive trust, supporting veterans, reservists, spouses & their families, and cadet armed forces volunteers, utilising their unique skills and experiences within the hospital workforce. We provide exceptional support to our employees who serve as reservists, ensuring they can balance their civilian and military responsibilities effectively.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Job responsibilities

We routinely perform 10G and 7G vacuum assisted biopsies as first line diagnostics and 7G vacuum assisted excisions with a Bard Enspire vacuum biopsy system and a Mammotome system.

In collaboration with the Consultant Radiographers and Advanced Practitioner Radiographers the successful candidate will undertake weekly wire localisations or magseed insertions each week.

We perform Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography as part of the pre-operative planning and surveillance pathways and have the facility for CESM biopsy.

We perform approximately 300 Breast MRIs per year, which are all double reported by the consultant radiologist and consultant radiographer team.

The unit has 2 ultrasound suites equipped with GE Logiq ultrasound scanners.

There is a Kubtec Mozart 3D specimen imaging system in breast theatres and a Trueview core system in the breast imaging unit.

We have separate radiology team of radiologists who run variety of services to include acute imaging, cancer imaging and other specialist services.

The Imaging service is supported by a GE PACS and is part of the EMRAD consortium.

Person Specification Education, Training & Qualifications

• Basic Medical Qualification (MB ChB/MBBS or equivalent). FRCR or equivalent
• Certificate of Specialist Training in Radiology (or be within 6 months of its award at time of Advisory Appointment Committee)
• Research leading to presentations and/or publications

Knowledge & Experience

• Competency and awareness for NHSBSP Programme
• Extensive experience in breast imaging
• Experience of working within the UK NHS.

Teaching

• Interest in teaching medical undergraduates, radiology and non-radiology junior medical staff and other healthcare professionals.

Skills

• Skills Ability to work within the relevant clinical and managerial structure, contributing to the continued development of the breast imaging service.
• Ability to be a leader. Able to manage and motivate staff. Ability to be an effective member of a team.

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.

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