Ultrasound Sonographer - Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Description

Our multi-skilled sonographer team rotate across all three sites and provide a 7-day emergency service at the Lister, which is our acute site and is working towards 7 day working at the New QEII hospital to support the newly established Community Diagnostic Hub.

We support sonographer development and training, and our sonographers are valued members of multi-disciplinary teams across obstetrics, gynaecology, vascular, Musculo-skeletal and general medicine.

We support flexible working and have shifts working weekends and evenings.

You will have a flexible attitude to support the team and the service across our region upholding the highest standards of care and professionalism.

We support ongoing professional development and encourage involvement with in-house training schemes to expand clinical experience.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Qualifications/Training
Hold postgraduate accredited qualification in medical ultrasound
Must have relevant skills/knowledge/experience in the range of ultrasound techniques required
~Be prepared to provide practical and theoretical training in medical ultrasound to specified staff and countersigning reports for trainees
Possess full understanding of ethical and moral issues to enable delivery of bad news to patients in an appropriate manner
Committed to providing a high quality ultrasound service for patients
IT skills to use CRIS and PACS and have computer literacy

Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
To be flexible with work patterns
Experience in writing protocols and care pathways using research based evidence for best practice

Lister Hospital