Urgent Search: Consultant Breast Radiologist

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Consultant Breast Radiologist

The closing date is 23 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Integrated Breast Services at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust for a Breast Consultant Radiologist. The duties of this role will be based at the Park Centre for Breast Care.

The role will be a full time 10PA post with the opportunity to cover all aspects of the breast screening and breast imaging services. This includes breast screening reporting, screening assessment clinics, one stop 2WW rule clinics, ultrasound and interventional lists and depending on experience MRI and cross-sectional reporting.

The successful candidate will join a busy Integrated Breast Service, providing breast screening to a population of over 125,000 women, receiving over 8,000 GP referrals and treating around 1000 new breast cancers.

Digital equipment including tomosynthesis and VAB/E are available at Brighton.

Main duties of the job

The clinical duties of the post will include the following:

- Support breast screening reporting, screening assessment clinics and arbitration sessions
- Support one stop symptomatic clinics
- Support ultrasound and interventional procedures, including VAB/E and localisation procedures
- Report breast MRIs / cross sectional imaging
- Support interval cancer and previously assessed cancer reviews

No on-call commitments.

About us

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached to the advert for further details of the post.

Person Specification

Experience / Qualifications

- oFRCR or its recognised equivalent
- Full and specialist registration (with a licence to practise) with the GMC or be eligible for registration within six months of the interview. If you trained in the UK, you must also have a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Clinical Radiology or be within six months of receiving it by the interview date. If you trained outside the UK, you must provide evidence that your qualifications are equivalent to the UK CCT. (Equivalence must be confirmed by GMC by date of AAC)
- Membership of other relevant subspecialty organisations
- MD or equivalent Higher Degree or evidence of relevant research
- Higher Degree

Clinical Skills and Experience

- Breast radiology including experience in breast screening
- Wide experience in clinical radiology and cross sectional imaging

Organisation and Planning

- Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams
- Understanding of: NHS / Clinical governance / Resource constraints
- Evidence of managerial skills: Achievements / Course attended

Teaching Skill

- Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
- Recognised teaching qualification

Academic and Research

- Evidence of participation in audit
- Research experience
- Publications
- Prizes and honours
- Appropriate progression of career to date

Personal Attributes

- Evidence of: Good communication skills both oral and written

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.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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