Sonographer: Practice Based Educator

Job summary

Main duties of the job

You will already be a practising WAHT sonographer with a Pg Dip or BSc (Medical Ultrasound) qualification.

You will have a broad spectrum of ultrasound skills, including scanning and independently reporting Obstetric, Gynae, abdominal, DVT and small part ultrasound examinations.

You will be able to demonstrate an extensive CPD portfolio and have a proven interest in teaching.

This post is initially for one day per week and you will be expected to travel county wide to support ultrasound staff with their training needs whilst maintaining your own scanning competencies.

You will be expected to liaise with and the established radiology PBE staff, ultrasound leads, radiology management and radiology governance team to ensure training is effective and up to date.

You will be expected to contribute to reviews of ultrasound governance material (including reviewing of documents/SOP's/protocols etc) ensuring that they are reviewed and updated in a timely manner.

In conjunction with the current Ultrasound leads you will be expected to develop this new role to ensure its effective evolution.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.