Job summary
- Main area
- Ultrasound
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7298740AZ
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Student Ultrasound Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
To train as a student sonographer within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, to complete the post graduate certificate and post graduate diploma in Medical Ultrasound, becoming an autonomous practitioner contributing to the sonographer led service.
To undertake all of the required clinical caseload of the Trust other than the most complex interventions which are carried out by medical staff members. To be in a position to manage the patients pathway associated with their individual designated referrals, providing a comprehensive report of the findings (seeking appropriate advice if required) and ensuring it is communicated to appropriate clinicians.
Annex 21
The provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 21 – Arrangements for Pay and Banding of Trainees, would apply whilst undertaking training in this role.
Length of training: x years
|
Period of Training |
Pay |
|
More than 3 years from completion of training |
60% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
More than 2 but less than 3 years prior to completion of training |
65% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
More than one but less than 2 years prior to completion of training |
70% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
Up to 12 months to completion of training |
75% of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate |
For further information on Annex 21, please see:
This role is eligible for the application of Agenda for Change Annex 30 pay preservation. Those employees or new entrants to the organisation who are eligible, would have their existing pay preserved, including their existing pay progression, including the enhancement pay rate of their preserved role, until they qualify, or until they reach the threshold where their apprenticeship pay would be in excess of the preserved pay, i.e. in the case of annex 21 contracts. Eligible applicants include those who are moving from a substantive role into a fixed term direct entry apprenticeship, within the same staff group, where the qualified pay rate is the same or higher than the preserved pay
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a student Sonographer within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, to complete the post graduate certificate and post graduate diploma in Medical Ultrasound, becoming an autonomous practitioner contributing to the sonographer led service.
The post holder will also undertake all of the required clinical caseload supported by a ultrasound practitioner within the Trust . The successful candidate will be supported to manage the patients pathway associated with their individual designated referrals, providing a comprehensive report of the findings (seeking appropriate advice if required) and ensuring it is communicated to appropriate clinicians.
The post holder will take responsibility for image archiving and electronic data management generated during the procedure.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck , Hexham and The Northumbria, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England. Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work as a student sonographer within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, to complete the post graduate certificate and post graduate diploma in Medical Ultrasound, becoming an autonomous practitioner contributing to the sonographer led service requiring minimal input from consultant medical staff.
- To be progressing towards undertaking all of the required clinical caseload of the Trust other than the most complex interventions which are carried out by medical staff members.
- With support, will manage the patient pathway associated with their individual designated. referrals, providing a comprehensive report of the findings (seeking appropriate advice if required) and ensuring it is communicated to appropriate clinicians.
- To take responsibility for image archiving and electronic data management generated during the procedure.
- To be able to effectively express, using both verbal and non-verbal communication skills, distressing and unexpected news directly to patients using empathy, respect and tact.
To develop knowledge base of professional expertise for external consultation and to work as a team with a multi-disciplinary approach to service provision.
To be responsible for technical equipment QA and ensuring its safe operation for patient use.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Diagnostic Radiography or equivalent.
- State registration with the health professions Council or other Royal College.
- PgCERT/PgDIP in Medical Ultrasound upon course completion 1-2 years
Desirable criteria
- Short specialist courses leading to other postgraduate qualifications.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Must hold relevant experience within Radiography or Healthcare.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- You will also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You will also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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
- Christopher Murray
- Job title
- Ultrasound Trust Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0844 811 8111
- Additional information
Chris Murray
Ultrasound Trust Lead
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