Reporting Sonographer - Radiology | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata plus 10% Recruitment & Retention Payment |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7258778/361-7140495-A |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Reporting Sonographer - Radiology who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Our multi-skilled sonographer team rotate across all three sites and provide a 7 day emergency service at the Lister, which is our acute site and is working towards 7 day working at the New QEII hospital to support the newly established Community Diagnostic Hub.
We support sonographer development and training and our sonographers are valued members of multi-disciplinary teams across obstetrics, gynaecology, vascular, musculo-skeletal and general medicine.
We support flexible working and have shifts working weekends and evenings.
This post attracts a 10% recruitment and retention premium.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
To work as an independent practitioner by performing ultrasound scans to a high diagnostic standard, formulating a report, and communicating the results to the appropriate clinician and to be accountable for own professional actions.
Perform and report a wide range of ultrasound examinations, working within agreed protocols (abdominal, gynaecology including transvaginal scanning, obstetric, vascular, and paediatric).
Have the ability to make clinical judgements and critical decisions of the highest order, using knowledge, skills and experience.
We support ongoing professional development and encourage involvement with in-house training schemes to expand clinical experience.
There is also monthly in-house teaching and audit sessions where active participation is encouraged. Leadership is a shared function within our team, and we look to develop talent.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Jun 2025