Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (until the end of November 2025. Secondment opportunity available to internal candidates)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 361-6855263
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata, plus 10% recruitment & retention payment
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/01/2025
Employer heading
Reporting Vascular Sonographer - Radiology
NHS AfC: Band 7
Here atÌý East and North Hertfordshire 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
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Job overview
We are recruiting for a Reporting Sonographer to share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
East and North Herts NHS Trust is the specialised Vascular hub for the region. A new hybrid theatre was opened in November 2024 to support this. You will join in vascular and general ultrasound and cover maternity leave until the end of November 2025.Ìý
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 day working at the New QEII hospital to support the newly established Community Diagnostic Hub.
We support sonographer development and training, and our sonographers are valued members of multi-disciplinary teams across obstetrics, gynaecology, vascular, musculo-skeletal and general medicine.
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.Ìý
Main duties of the job
To work as an independent practitioner by performing vascular and general ultrasound scans to a high diagnostic standard, formulating a report, and communicating the results to the appropriate clinician and to be accountable for own professional actions.
Perform and report a wide range of vascular ultrasound examinations, working within agreed protocols (these may also include abdominal, gynaecology including transvaginal scanning, obstetric, and paediatric).
Have the ability to make clinical judgements and critical decisions of the highest order, using knowledge, skills and experience.
We support ongoing professional development and encourage involvement with in-house training schemes to expand clinical experience.
There is also monthly in-house teaching and audit sessions where active participation is encouraged. Leadership is a shared function within our team, and we look to develop talent.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
ÌýWe 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.Ìý We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision.Ìý If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.Ìý Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & 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
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Hold postgraduate accredited qualification in medical ultrasound
- Professional registration ( HPC or other)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have relevant skills/knowledge/experience in the range of ultrasound techniques required
- Agreed competence post qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Possess knowledge and understanding of audit and clinical governance processes
- Must show evidence of and be prepared to continue with CPD to ensure a high standard of examinations and patient care
- Be prepared to provide practical and theoretical training in medical ultrasound to specified staff and countersigning reports for trainees
- Contribute to development of the service and protocols
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be able to work independently
- Competent to write concise and accurate clinical reports
- Work effectively in a potentially high pressure and emotive environment
- Possess full understanding of ethical and moral issues to enable delivery of bad news to patients in an appropriate manner
- Committed to providing a high quality ultrasound service for patients
- IT skills to use CRIS and PACS and have computer literacy
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
Desirable criteria
- To be flexible with work patterns
- Experience in research and development
- Experience in writing protocols and care pathways using research based evidence for best practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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 Sonographer for General US
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438286416
- Additional information
Contact:
Nadiya Sullivan - Lead Sonographer for General US ([email protected])
Donna WhiteÌý - Lead Sonographer for Obs and Gynae US ([email protected])
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for further information or informal discussions
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