Specialist Midwife Ultrasonographer (XR07)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will act as a resource for ultrasound/midwifery issues for parents and healthcare professionals across the city. The post holder performs a range of obstetric ultrasound scans and reports independently on ultrasound images. This is used to inform appropriate midwifery care and referral.

The post holder will be expected to manage and co-ordinate ultrasound provision to ensure cost-effective use of resources. This post will involve direct liaison with community and acute services cross-city with medical, midwifery and nursing staff.

Clinical

Provide continuity of midwifery care and ultrasound care and contribute to a seamless level of service

Plan, implement and evaluate individualised programmes for women accessing antenatal care.

Communicate with the multidisciplinary team to enable a collaborative approach to care and take responsibility for the assessment of care needs in midwifery and ultrasound

Monitor and maintain standards of midwifery and ultrasound, including health and safety

Carry out a range of clinical examinations related to ultrasound and midwifery. Independently interpret, report and record ultrasound images and findings.

Contribute to departmental and multidisciplinary meetings.

The ability to deal with highly complex facts and situations that require analysis, interpretation and judgement through clinical information data and to assimilate a wide range of information to report the findings of examinations.

Report any abnormality or deterioration in fetal or maternal condition to the relevant fetal-medicine consultant, consultant obstetrician or specialist registrar or any other personnel as appropriate

Determine the necessity for scans, repeat scans, and appropriate referral for ultrasound/midwifery/medical review

Discuss the findings with women or scan results including delicate and/or sensitive information (fetal demise, fetal abnormalities) and gives advice on appropriate follow-up or referral.

To be an available resource offering specialist advice to other professionals.

Ascertain appropriate referral to other agencies

Streamline the pathway of antenatal and ultrasound care and optimise clinical resources, thus reducing appointments for women and pressure on other team members

Determine the necessity for scans, repeat scans, and appropriate referral for ultrasound/midwifery/medical review

Counsel women on scan results including giving bad news

Provide continuity of ultrasound care and contribute to a seamless level of service

Monitor and maintain standards of midwifery and ultrasonography, including health and safety

Access and advise on ultrasound examination reports and take appropriate action

Provide ultrasound support for the obstetric consultants, fetal assessment unit, Antenatal Day Care Unit, Antenatal Clinic and all clinical areas within midwifery.

Ensures that the environment is conductive to safe working practise. Undertake basic fault-finding of ultrasound equipment, trouble shoot, report and document faults, undertake clinical risk assessments as appropriate.

Practice seamlessly across midwifery and ultrasonography.

Provide a service that is cost-effective, provides high-quality care whilst fulfilling midwifery service requirements

Provide guidance involving the impact of clinical findings of a midwifery examinations on the management of pregnancy

Work to promote the development of midwives as considered appropriate.

Identify, avert and defuse potential areas of conflict within midwifery and ultrasound.

Be accountable for own actions and omissions and may need to advise other members of the team with regard to their actions and omissions.

The post holder would be required to investigate and respond to accidents and complaints within midwifery and ultrasound.

Liase with Matron with regard to care development issues to ensure financial viability of any developments combining midwifery and ultrasound care.

Lead person in implementing best practice standards and will work towards LTHT providing an ultrasound service in line with national standards and recommendations. (HTA, BMUS, UKAS, RCOG, RCR)

Lead in developing, maintaining, implementing and reviewing the ultrasound provision policies and guidelines working with senior managers in LTHT and in the PCTs to ensure adoption cross-city.

Provide guidance involving the impact of clinical findings of ultrasound examinations on the management of pregnancy

Work to promote the development of colleagues training in ultrasound as considered appropriate.

Please see attached job description for full details

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Midwifery or equivalent
• Registered Midwife
• Post graduate certificate in Ultrasound (1 year fulltime university)
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to this area to clinical practice

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Forward thinking
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Confident and able to take responsibility
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• IT Skills
• Ability to teach skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
• Ability to cope working in an stressful environment

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)