Consultant Radiographer - Breast

NHS Scotland • Full-time • Inverness, GB • 4d ago

Consultant Radiographer – Breast

Location: Highland Breast Centre, Raigmore Hospital

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Salary: Band 8B

The Highlands of Scotland, a population of 300,000 people spread over 10,000 square miles, making delivering 21^st century healthcare a daily challenge. The NHS Highland Breast Service is an integrated Screening and Symptomatic Breast Service, based at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, and embraces these challenges with enthusiasm, innovation and adaptation.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Breast Team for the appointment of our first Consultant Radiographer in Breast. As the successful candidate, you will be a central part of a specialist breast team, providing and facilitating expert care for patients with, or at risk of, breast disease. Working independently and collaboratively, you will assess and diagnose patients, manage your own caseload, and be supported in continuous professional development.

You will bring a high level of autonomy to the role, whilst still benefitting from the collaboration of a close-knit, multi disciplinary team consisting of Consultant Surgeons, Consultant Radiologists and Advanced Practitioner Specialist Radiographers.

The post holder will be an HCPC registered Radiographer, ideally holding a Post Graduate Masters level qualification that includes the following:

Mammography
Mammographic Film Interpretation
Breast Ultrasound
Interventional Breast Procedures

You should have a minimum of 3 years of Advanced Practice in multiple areas of breast imaging.

The successful candidate will be well organised, with a high level of attention to detail, the ability to make difficult decisions and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

We would encourage informal enquiries to:

Kirstie Still, Superintendent Radiographer, Kirstie.still@nhs.scot or Dr Nicola Spence, Consultant Radiologist, Nicola.Spence3@nhs.scot

Job Reference: 242095
Closing date: Midnight Friday 3rd April

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

Effective from 1st April 2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reduced from 37 to 36 hours. Part-time hours will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis. There will be an increase in the hourly rate to ensure that pay remains unaffected.
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NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

We employ over 10,700 people, making us one of the biggest employers in the area. As an organisation, we make a very significant contribution to the local economy.

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