Clinical Vascular Scientist

NHS; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Biomedical Scientist to join their Vascular Lab team. This role offers the chance to enhance your skills in vascular sonography while providing vital diagnostic services for patients with vascular diseases. You'll be part of a collaborative team, ensuring efficient patient care and maintaining high clinical standards. With access to ongoing learning and development opportunities, you'll be well-positioned for career progression within a supportive environment. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare and enjoy flexible work options, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Wellbeing resources

Paid annual leave

Access to learning & development opportunities

Qualifications

• HCPC registered and experienced as a Registered Biomedical Scientist.
• MSc in Vascular Ultrasound from a CASE accredited University.

Responsibilities

• Ensure clinical standards in vascular sonography are maintained.
• Advise clinicians on interpretation of results and further investigations.
• Assist in the organization and supervision of junior staff.

Skills

Vascular Sonography

Patient Counseling

Clinical Standards Maintenance

Education

HCPC Registration

Biomedical Science Degree

MSc in Vascular Ultrasound

SVT Accreditation

Job description

This job will enhance your performance through continuously developing your knowledge, skills, and behaviours of a biomedical scientist making you more capable and confident than you were before starting the role. While also potentially leading to further development opportunities down the line.

Main duties of the job

You will be an effective member of the Vascular Lab team ensuring a high-quality, accessible, and efficient service. To provide a comprehensive diagnostic and evaluative duplex ultrasound service to referring consultants and clinicians as appropriate, for patients suffering from peripheral vascular disease, lower limb ischemia, venous, and carotid disease.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.

Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources, and built paid annual leave.

Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.

Job responsibilities

1. To ensure that clinical standards in vascular sonography are maintained.
2. To ensure that the scanning of patients is carried out as quickly as possible, consistent with keeping to the standard required and that the patients are sent home or to other departments with the least possible delay.
3. Advise clinicians on interpretation of results. Recommend to clinicians further investigations or urgent review by Vascular Surgeons, where appropriate.
4. Advice and counsel patients on both normal and distressing test results/conclusions.
5. To adhere to departmental policies and keep up-to-date with developments in vascular technology, to attend courses and seminars as necessary.
6. To assist the Lead Vascular Scientist with the organisation and supervision of junior staff in the department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

1. HCPC registered & Practised as a Registered Biomedical Scientist.
2. A Biomedical Science Degree or equivalent.
3. MSc in Vascular Ultrasound from a CASE accredited University training programme.
4. Society of Vascular Technology (SVT) accreditation.
5. Previous proven NHS experience in vascular ultrasound scanning post qualification/accreditation.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.