Lead Sonographer - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic sonographer who is keen on working in a new environment and willing to develop a sonography service that can truly meet the needs of the community.

We are aiming for a 70-30 split of management and clinical for this role.

In this role you will be working at the Wood Green Community Diagnostic Centre, located at Wood Green Shopping City, right in the heart of vibrant Wood Green, a few minutes from the tube station and excellent transport links.

If you are a sonographer looking for the next step in your career, this is a great opportunity to show off, and further develop your leadership skills in a truly pioneering project.

At this site, due to the clinical model we propose, we will not perform obstetrics scans but predominantly general medical, gynaecological, head and neck and MSK scans.

The role offers a recruitment and retention premia.

For more information about the role and pay, please refer to the attached job description.

To lead and develop the general ultrasound service providing highly specialised professional advice to all grades of staff within the team, ensuring that staff are supported and operating a safe and efficient service.

To line manage and provide professional leadership of the ultrasound team; providing a high quality, patient focussed ultrasound service.

Working closely with the Imaging Services Manager, Lead Consultant Radiologist and other staff within the Trust, ensuring that service delivery is planned, organised and implemented effectively.

Provide specialist, professional advice pertaining to the ultrasound service.

The maintenance of a high standard of patient care and medical ethics is essential.

Responsible for the training and supervision of all staff within the ultrasound unit.

Supports innovations to develop the ultrasound service.

To work as an independent practitioner by performing ultrasound scans to a high diagnostic standard, providing a report and communicating the results to the appropriate clinician.

To communicate potentially distressing diagnoses direct to the patients, and to refer these patients appropriately.

To actively assist in the department audit and be responsible for research and clinical governance programmes.

Ensure personal development and improve professional expertise via continuous professional learning.

At the CDC, we aim to promote work-life balance and embrace an equal, diverse and inclusive culture where all opinions, suggestions and ideas are listened to equally.

We want to develop a team that has the ability to work dynamically and challenge traditional operational models but still provide a safe and effective service to our population.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Professional Leadership

To be responsible for the professional leadership and management of all sonographers within the modality.

To ensure that the service delivery is patient focused and of the highest quality.

To ensure optimum efficiency and effective management of the sonographers within Imaging.

To assist in the formation of new policies, procedures and initiatives to improve current service delivery across all sites and aid in development of new services.

To encourage multidisciplinary team working ensuring effective channels of communication are open to all team members.

Use specialised knowledge to advise others on the effective delivery of service.

Clinical Responsibilities

Regularly undertake clinical work within Imaging

To ensure that examinations are carried out to the agreed standard of the Directorate.

To prioritise workload and facilitate booking of examinations considering the clinical indications for the request.

To provide clinical support /supervision to all staff working within the Directorate.

To always work in an efficient and effective manner.

To always behave in a professional manner.

To work flexibly based on requirements of service and in conjunction with other Modality Leads.

To work in conjunction with, and support, the Modality Leads in the formation of new policies, procedures, and initiatives to improve current service delivery across all sites and aid in the development of new services.

Maintain a high standard of patient care and comf