Sonographer – Women’s Health

Job summary

Sonographer for Women's Health - Band 7 - 1 Year Maternity Cover

St George's maternity unit provides care to over 5000 women each year. We take great pride in promoting midwifery by delivering holistic woman-centred care to our diverse local community.

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, dynamic Sonographer who is ready to join our obstetric ultrasound team and provide a high level of technical expertise across a comprehensive range of examinations.

You will be an experienced specialist diagnostic sonographer who will join the highly skilled team of sonographers, trainee sonographers, clinical fellows and midwives.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with proven experience in working within obstetric ultrasound. It is essential that you bring a flexible and adaptable approach to meet with the challenge of this role, supporting the multi-professional team in personalising care, enhancing quality and improving the patient experience.

The Fetal Medicine unit consists of 8 scanning rooms including the Fetal Medicine/Fetal Echocardiography service.

Each scanning room and administration offices are networked with Viewpoint Fetal Database, allowing full reports to be completed and ultrasound images printed and stored electronically, and both Samsung Hera and GE machines utilised.

Main duties of the job

To undertake ultrasound examinations competently as per departmental protocols.

To report on ultrasound findings accurately and professionally asper departmental protocols.

To develop and maintain a high professional and technical knowledge base and standard of work.

To supervise the general welfare of patients whilst in the department.

To be responsible for the safe conduct of all examinations in thearea of responsibility.

To assist with and undertake research and departmental audits inthe unit.

To maintain Nuchal Translucency certification by annual audit tomaintain standards.

To counsel patients regarding 1st Trimester screening for chromosomal abnormality and refer as appropriate.

Responsible for the day to day management of any staff within sphere of responsibility.

Participate in the orientation and development of new staff.

Participate in the appraisal of untrained staff as appropriate.

Ensure accurate and clear records are kept and that all signaturesare legible.

Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of individual teammembers and give support and guidance where necessary.

Participate in departmental meetings and in meetings related to the ongoing review and evaluation of the service.

To be familiar with the use of computers for record keeping, respecting confidentiality in line with the requirements of data protection.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.