Sonographer / Midwife Sonographer, Band 7

Job overview

Best Care for Everyone

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, motivated, full time band 7 Obstetric Trained Sonographer/ Midwife Sonographer to join our busy and friendly Ultrasound team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We provide a comprehensive Ultrasound service for a wide range of specialties and GP referrals at Gloucester Royal Hospital, Cheltenham General Hospital and three community hospital sites within the county and a newly opened Diagnostic Imaging Centre In Gloucester.

Main duties of the job

You will work as an independent reporting practitioner, working autonomously but supported by fellow Sonographers, Consultant Obstetricians and the Ultrasound Manager. You will work as part of a high quality Ultrasound imaging service, caring for patients and working with trainees, specialty grade clinicians and the wider multidisciplinary teams.

We provide a wide variety of Obstetric examinations including early pregnancy assessment , Nuchal translucency anomaly and growth scans.

Sonographers are required to rotate between sites and help us to maintain our high quality 7-day service between the hours of 08:00 to 20:00.

Candidates must hold a recognized UK qualification such as PG (cert), PG (Dip) or DMU or equivalent and be state registered

Join us and you’ll be part of a community that recognizes your contribution and inspires you to achieve great things.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

The post holder

- is responsible for actively contributing to the delivery of an efficient and effective service, taking a lead in a clinical or supportive role in the ultrasound department.

- provides clinical reports for own patient workload.

- provides clinical training and appraisal for trainees and supervision for newly-qualified sonographers.

DIMENSIONS

Impact upon pay and non- pay budgets:

The post holder will

- use specialist ultrasound equipment and be responsible for the safe and efficient use of expensive and complex equipment (to the value of up to £100k ).

- involvement in QA and equipment maintenance scheduling.

- make best use of resources by careful and efficient management of time and out of hours service demands.

Staff numbers and grades who report through post-holder:

- provide continuous clinical leadership for a multidisciplinary team.

- provide day-to-day supervision of radiographic care assistants/clerical support workers and trainee and newly qualified sonographers.

- participate in the training of specialist registrars in radiology and obstetrics/gynaecology.

Workload commitment

- The post holder will be able to work at a pace comparable with that of peer group, undertaking similar numbers of examinations per hour as a specialist consultant undertaking the same examination type mix in the same working conditions.

- The post holder will work shift patterns and out of hours as requested.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

- Professional registration.

- Minimum of postgraduate diploma at Masters level in Medical Ultrasound (CASE accredited training course) plus recent post-qualification experience

- Excellent multidisciplinary team working and leadership skills

- Ability to work under own initiative to a high level with responsibility and commitment

- Consistently excellent communication skills

- Presentation and report writing skills (clinical/non clinical)

- Detailed evidence of appropriate ongoing professional development (professional portfolio)

- A broad understanding of the role of different imaging modalities in relationship to effective and efficient delivery of patient clinical management

- Ability and enthusiasm to contribute to the departmental education programme and deliver presentations to multidisciplinary groups

- Mature judgement and decision making skills - highly reflective in thinking and outlook

- Basic IT skills as appropriate to post

- Evidence of awareness of application of research/audit techniques

- Attendance at appropriate communication/counselling training schemes (desirable)

- Annual attendance at the directorates’ mandatory training programme

- Physical skills - Highly developed hand-eye co-ordination and a high degree of dexterity and sensory skills are required for Ultrasound scanning. Specialised keyboard skills are used for manipulation of images.

Contact Details

Lavinia Morgan-Tovey (Ultrasound Modality Lead)

lavinia.morgan-tovey@nhs.net

0300 422 6781

Hours available

Monday/Tuesday Friday 8.30-4.30 Wednesday 9-12.45

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.