Obstetric Ultrasound Cross Site Lead

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced, passionate sonographer to lead our Obstetric Ultrasound service across Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust. Are you an experienced sonographer with an interest in Obstetric Ultrasound? Do you have advanced obstetric ultrasound knowledge and skills and are ready to to take the lead within this area of ultrasound? If so, we are keen for you to join the Ultrasound team at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG).

This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of Obstetric Sonographer Cross Site Lead and work within the Humber Health Partnership (HHP), delivering obstetric ultrasound services, training and education. Primarily this roll includes cross-site working over the NLAG sites, but there is an expectation to work closely with colleagues at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) with whom we are in partnership.

In this crucial role, you will be responsible for leading the Screening Support Service (SSS) across NLAG. You will oversee the ultrasound screening processes, ensuring quality assurance and supporting the fetal anomaly screening programs. Alongside this you will have a blend of clinical and managerial responsibilities, being responsible for things like:  service improvements, policy development, team management, audit, training and development within the sphere of obstetric ultrasound.

Main duties of the job

Working across-site you would be responsible for developing, delivering and enhancing the Obstetric Ultrasound Service.

Your responsibilities include –

• Upholding safe, effective service delivery within Obstetric Ultrasound across NLAG, working closely with service / clinical leads across-site to support this.
• You will undertake a wide variety of obstetric ultrasound examinations, ensuring best clinical practice is upheld, alongside optimal diagnostic imaging.
• You will have a shared level of responsibility for all aspects of the NLAG Ultrasound service with the other Sonography Clinical Leads.
• You will act as the NLAG SSS lead, ensuring adherence to FASP / National Screening Committee standards and managing a deputy at each site.
• You will lead multidisciplinary image review sessions and liaise with DQASS on quality improvement and training outcomes.
• You will supervise and support training of staff within the sphere of obstetric ultrasound.
• You will manage clinical governance, incident reporting and service audit, to uphold imaging quality and patient safety.
• You will coordinate departmental resources.
• You will represent the service at Trust meetings, contributing to strategic planning and service improvement.
• You will assist in oversee staffing, sickness, appraisals, recruitment, and performance monitoring.
• Ensure accurate documentation and data entry via hospital IT systems.
• You will collaborate with HUTH in order that the obstetric service across the HHP can be unified.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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