Advanced Practitioner Ultrasonographer
Southend University Hospital NHS TrustOverview
An exciting opportunity to join an experienced and enthusiastic ultrasound team has arisen at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. You will be based at Broomfield Hospital, which is a busy District General Hospital, with rotation to two local Community Hospitals. Southend University Hospital NHS Trust can offer you a busy, challenging, and varied workload, including:
- Antenatal ultrasound services
- General, small parts, paediatric, DVT, and MSK scanning
Southend University Hospital NHS Trust provide support to the Early Pregnancy Unit, Urology and Gynae clinics, and you will have the opportunity to work alongside the consultant radiologists on the Emergency Floor, scanning emergency and urgent inpatient cases.
If you would like to join a friendly, sociable team of ultrasonographers committed to providing a high-quality imaging service, and feel you have the right skills, Southend University Hospital NHS Trust would welcome your application.
You should be committed to providing a patient-focused high-quality service, with an interest in clinical teaching, continual professional development, participation in audit, and enjoy multi-disciplinary team working within a supportive environment.
Responsibilities
- To work at an advanced level of practice providing a high-quality ultrasound service with comprehensive independently written reports.
- Communicate highly complex information regarding diagnosis/treatment directly with Clinicians and patients.
- To independently prioritise patients and organise workload from a variety of referral pathways to meet the needs of the service.
- To ensure the highest professional occupational standards are maintained at all times using a high level of specialist knowledge in line with local, regional and national guidelines where appropriate.
- To work autonomously performing a wide range of ultrasound examinations, including abdominal, obstetrics, and gynaecology.
- To provide accurate dating based on fetal ultrasound measurements in the pregnant woman - crucial to the calculation and confirmation of the expected date of delivery, and for the planning of antenatal care and tests.
- Participate in the provision of a screening service to detect fetal abnormalities, monitor growth in the “at risk” fetus, and management of the multiple pregnancy.
About the Trust
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. Southend University Hospital NHS Trust work together, in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of Southend University Hospital NHS Trust's patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate, and build careers.
Perks and Benefits
Southend University Hospital NHS Trust not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress. Southend University Hospital NHS Trust will deliver safe and high-quality services and be an employer of choice for Southend University Hospital NHS Trust's workforce.
Chelmsford is an increasingly cosmopolitan city, with a lively town centre and an expanding university which has academic links with the Hospital. London and Stansted airport are less than an hour away, as are the East Coast and East Anglian countryside.
