Job summary
- Main area
- Sonographer
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota)
- Job ref
- 361-7323428
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Sonographer Obstetrics and Gynaecology -Radiology
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Obstetric and Gynae Lead Sonographer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The department works closely with the women's health team to deliver high quality scan reports.
Our state of the art equipment and good support from our commercial partners supports sonographer development. You will be at the helm of developing improved pathways to support women using your experience and knowledge of imaging.
Our multi-skilled sonographer team rotate across all three sites and provide a 7-day emergency service at the Lister, which is our acute site and is working towards 7 days working at the New QEII hospital to support the Community Diagnostic Hub.
We support flexible working and have shifts working weekends and evenings.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
As the Lead Reporting Sonographer for Obstetrics and Gynaecology you will take a major role in ultrasound imaging supporting high clinical standards.
You will assist in the development of departmental policies and procedures and make an effective contribution to service development and quality improvement.
The post holder will be involved in writing Training documents & Competencies for specific procedures.
Act as academic and clinical mentor to both educate and support those learning ultrasound procedures or research, including radiologists, radiographers, RDA s, and other disciplines.
The successful candidate will participate and have an active role in audit and clinical governance.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- DMU, PgDip or equivalent recognised Ultrasound qualification
- UK hospital experience in MSK ultrasound
Desirable criteria
- Experience of general and some vascular ultrasound
- MSc in health care related subject
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of a wide range of Imaging equipment
- Demonstration of ability to make decisions and take responsibility
- Experience in MSK scanning
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in Audit and Clinical Governance programmes.
- Maintained competence in general ultrasound imaging
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written communication with patients and staff at all levels
- Ability to work effectively in a team
- Experience of training other members of staff in MSK imaging
Desirable criteria
- Core Management Skills
- Recruitment and selection training
- Appraisal Training
- Presentation skills
- Experience of setting up new services within the health sector
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High standard of ultrasound imaging skills
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development particularly in regard to MSK ultrasound
- Knowledge of current policies, legislation affecting service delivery
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nadiya Sullivan
- Job title
- Lead General Sonographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 286416
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