# Locum Sonographer (Bank) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-sonographer-bank/50943ca2-c6cd-4bed-870c-883e99108931 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-sonographer-bank/50943ca2-c6cd-4bed-870c-883e99108931.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - **Town:** Thornton Heath - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Radiographer - **Speciality:** Radiology - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £31.61 - £35.53 per hour including WTD - **Contract type:** Locum: 8 months (Agency Request via Temporary Staffing Team) - **Employment type:** Full time, Other, 37.5 hours per week (Bank) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-17T13:42:33.921Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Radiography/Radiography-v7299161 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7299161?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### Specialist Sonographer (Band 8a) An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic, and experienced sonographer to join our friendly department at Croydon University Hospital and to work cross site at Purley memorial hospital/CDC centres as well. The successful candidate will work as a Sonographer ensuring the Ultrasound services at Croydon are delivered effectively. The Ultrasound Department is well equipped with up-to-date equipment. Sonographers work in the Main Ultrasound department, Antenatal Department and the Vascular department. Croydon University Hospital is a large urban DGH situated in South London, serving the needs of a diverse population of 360,000. It has one of the busiest A & E departments in London. Croydon has easy access to both central London and the south coast. The department performs in excess of 250,000 all examinations per annum and has an active Clinical Governance programme. There are currently approximately 100 WTE Staff in post in the Diagnostic Imaging department, including 22 Consultant Radiologists and Speciality Grade Doctors. If you would like to be part of a hardworking, friendly department, providing high quality care, please come and visit us and have a chat! ### Main duties of the job Act as an autonomous practitioner whilst maintaining a close working relationship with Lead Sonographer, Service Manager and key referring Clinicians to deliver an efficient, high quality Ultrasound service To support the effective planning, development, organisation and delivery of Ultrasound and specific, well defined sub-speciality ultrasound training for sonographers and medical staff working collaboratively with the Lead Sonographer and Lead Radiologist; To provide highly specialist, expert clinical ultrasound knowledge, acting as a clinical resource in the ultrasound department To partake in undergraduate and postgraduate Ultrasound training across all grades including supervising, motivating and developing other staff as appropriate To provide specialist input into the Trust clinical governance agenda, influencing the delivery of patient care, as appropriate, working at any site as required ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification*** ## Job Details An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic, and experienced sonographer to join our friendly department at Croydon University Hospital and to work cross site at Purley memorial hospital/CDC centres as well. The successful candidate will work as a Sonographer ensuring the Ultrasound services at Croydon are delivered effectively. The Ultrasound Department is well equipped with up-to-date equipment. Sonographers work in the Main Ultrasound department, Antenatal Department and the Vascular department. Croydon University Hospital is a large urban DGH situated in South London, serving the needs of a diverse population of 360,000. It has one of the busiest A & E departments in London. Croydon has easy access to both central London and the south coast. The department performs in excess of 250,000 all examinations per annum and has an active Clinical Governance programme. There are currently approximately 100 WTE Staff in post in the Diagnostic Imaging department, including 22 Consultant Radiologists and Speciality Grade Doctors. If you would like to be part of a hardworking, friendly department, providing high quality care, please come and visit us and have a chat! ## Job Description Act as an autonomous practitioner whilst maintaining a close working relationship with Lead Sonographer, Service Manager and key referring Clinicians to deliver an efficient, high quality Ultrasound service To support the effective planning, development, organisation and delivery of Ultrasound and specific, well defined sub-speciality ultrasound training for sonographers and medical staff working collaboratively with the Lead Sonographer and Lead Radiologist; To provide highly specialist, expert clinical ultrasound knowledge, acting as a clinical resource in the ultrasound department To partake in undergraduate and postgraduate Ultrasound training across all grades including supervising, motivating and developing other staff as appropriate To provide specialist input into the Trust clinical governance agenda, influencing the delivery of patient care, as appropriate, working at any site as required ## Responsibilities ***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification*** ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of carrying out obstetric/non obstetric ultrasound scans in a busy nhs hospital **Desirable** - antenatal US experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post Grad qualification in Medical ultrasound **Desirable** - NHS experience ### Job description **Essential** - Understood the JD ## Documents - [chs accomodation (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1725) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2414) - [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972) - [map of croydon university hospital (pdf, 95.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=974) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 544.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9536136) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.