Ultrasonographer

NHS Jobs; Isleworth; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

R&R allowance £5,000

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled ultrasound professional to perform independent ultrasound duties across all specialties. The role involves producing accurate reports, delivering clinical opinions, and ensuring high patient care standards.

The post includes responsibilities for transvaginal scans with proper consent, teaching junior staff and registrars, and contributing to departmental reviews and MDT meetings.

Qualifications

• Independently perform ultrasound duties with high standard of care.
• Proficient in intimate procedures including transvaginal scans with proper consent.
• Teach and mentor junior staff and sonographers in advanced techniques.

Responsibilities

• Perform ultrasound examinations across all specialties.
• Produce accurate reports and diagnostic opinions promptly.
• Attend MDT meetings and contribute to imaging service discussions.
• Cover 7-day working pattern and on-call rotas as required.

Skills

Ultrasound techniques

Teaching/mentoring

Patient care

MDT involvement

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities To undertake all ultrasound duties independently, efficiently and to provide a highly specialised clinical service. To produce accurate reports and formal diagnostic opinion in a timely manner based on examinations undertaken. To ensure that patients receive a high standard of care throughout all ultrasound specialties. To display competence and confidence to undertake intimate procedures including transvaginal scans ensuring relevant consent procedures have been adhered. To have the appropriate precise skills required for ultrasound techniques To be able to demonstrate knowledge and expertise in the use of highly specialised equipment. The post-holder will be expected to be proficient, and to teach, in the more specialised techniques practiced in ultrasound scanning. To be able to propose a review of clinical procedures and protocols in the department. To assist with the practical training and mentoring of more junior staff and student sonographers and to be capable of providing instructions/information to those staff in a motivational manner. They will also be required to train radiology registrars in ultrasound techniques. The weekly hours of the appointee will reflect the 7 day working pattern of the department. To participate in the on call and stand by rotas as required. To be able to work independently in all areas of the department during these times. To contribute to, and feedback from, meetings relevant to the imaging service i.e. to attend MDT meetings relevant to patients who have been in their care.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£63,665 - £70,887 per annum (incl. of HCAA), plus R&R payment of £5,000.