Clinical Specialist Sonographer

Job overview

To undertake ultrasound imaging in a highly professional manner, and act as an accepted clinical expert in their Clinical Speciality.

To manage a patient caseload and be a recognised source of clinical expertise both within the Trust and externally.

To be a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing timely, responsive and patient centred ultrasound services both within the

base hospital and outreach situation.

To help enable the Trust to meet Key Performance Indicators and other service delivery objectives.

Assist others to attain Clinical Specialist status.

Main duties of the job

To scan and report on a variety of third trimester obstetric ultrasound examinations, excluding Twins and multiple pregnancies and placental location, within the maternity department of East Sussex Healthcare NHS trust.

To ensure consistency of medical imaging quality, accurate informative report writing and maintain standards of patient care to the agreed departmental and trust standards and protocols.

• Key duties include:

Undertake third trimester ultrasound examinations, maintaining a high, professional and technical standard of work at all times.

Use skills and in depth knowledge of anatomy and pathology to provide a diagnostic report of examinations.

To seek advice from sonographers in the main Ultrasound department or Fetal Medicine Consultant if there is doubt regarding placental location, fetal demise, difficult measurements or suspected fetal abnormality.

Be responsible for the safe conduct of any examination and welfare of the woman in the care of the sonographer.

To monitor and propose amendments, where necessary, to guidelines, policies, protocols and SOPs in current area of work/supervision with Fetal Medicine Consultant and Obstetric Lead

Communicating to women with empathy when abnormalities are highlighted, and potentially distressing results / diagnostic findings. Refer to Fetal Medicine Consultant and screening team of your concerns.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Fetal Medicine Consultant and Obstetric Lead to partake in departmental peer review of images

Participate in the clinical supervision of trainee Sonographers

Participate in the training of medical staff, obstetrics & gynaecology

Ensure the sonographer adheres to strict growth scan protocol assessing woman between the gestation of 28 weeks and Term. If Twins or placental location is accidently put on the list to re direct to main ultrasound department for follow up scan.

• To adhere to 3rd Trimester protocol and its guidelines. If an abnormality or complication occurs to refer to Fetal Medicine Consultant or relevant department. Second opinion to be sort from the FMC or a sonographer from the main ultrasound department. To perform a 3rd Trimester scan in accordance with the Obstetric and Fetal Medicine Consultant guidelines. This is Fetal heart rate, HC, AC, FL, liquour volume, Doppler analysis and placental position only. Other anatomical structures will not be examined. If there is any concern in the anatomy that the sonographer has identified a referral to the FMC and screening team should be sort. The FMC will take full responsibility for the sonographer scan and images obtained in accordance with the 3rd Trimester protocol.

Ensure that child protection and vulnerable adult legislation is adhered to within own practice and service.

Use the Viewpoint reporting programme to produce written reports for the handheld notes and post process examination on the CRIS database.

Sonographers are expected to conform to professional standards and practice dictated by SoR BMUS and FASP. Sonographers also incorporate East Sussex Obstetric Ultrasound Guidelines; NICE guidelines and RCOG guidance within locally developed Trust ultrasound Guidelines

Please refer to the job description attached.

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