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Job overview

A new and exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Breast Unit assistant has arisen within the Breast Team, Bury St Edmunds covering the West Suffolk area. If you are looking for a fulfilling and varied role, with a genuine desire to provide high quality care and a commitment to improve the service, then we want you as part of our team.

This is a new role to the unit and we wish to find the right candidate to take on the role, be adaptable and enthusiastic about making the role their own whilst enjoying the stability of joining a well-established and flourishing team who share the vision and goal to strive for the best of our patients.

As a team we continually strive to develop our quality health care services and we are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join our dynamic multi- disciplinary service. The successful applicant will be joining an innovative team of clinicians providing high quality heath interventions as part of the wider forward thinking, diverse multi-disciplinary team, working collaboratively with nurses and other professional clinicians.

Main duties of the job

·       Support and deliver a range of interventions within the Breast Unit

·         Participate in the delivery of daily routine activities with patients e.g setting up and assisting with interventional procedures, preparing the sterile procedural equipment for interventional procedures, ensuring patient is correctly prepped, positioned and monitored throughout the procedure, direct/support other imaging assistants in delivering care/supporting colleagues with interventions.

·         To attend meetings as and when required and disseminate information to the team appropriately.

·         Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary members of the care team, patients, and their family/carers on care related issues.

·         Provide and support training, competency completion and development activity with the Breast Unit workforce.

·         To participate and support in the implementation of service developments.

·         Understanding of the sensitive nature of the role

·         To work collaboratively with the nursing and imaging staff to provide full Breast Unit Assistant cover for all clinics and procedures undertaken within the Unit

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?