General Specialist Practitioner Sonographer | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7606981/259-7606981RLH |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly autonomous and experienced Sonographer, who is practicing at the top of their licence and can evidence of the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, to join our diverse team as General Specialist Practitioner Sonographer.
The successful candidate will be based at the Royal London Hospital with Cross site rotation to St Bartholomew’s, Mile End hospital Community Diagnostic centre and Early Diagnostic centre and will be expected to participate in the 7-day service with working compressed hours and weekend working.
The role is 80% Direct Clinical Contact (DCC) 20% Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). This role is intended to support the upskilling and training of sonographers to improve the skill mix in General ultrasound. Experience in scanning more complex referrals from a range of referral sources across elective, urgent and emergency care pathways (e.g. Fast response, SDEC and AAU) is essential. The post holder will be responsible for improving patient outcomes by reducing waiting times to comply with National targets, DM01 and Faster Diagnostic service (FDS), leading quality improvement and audit/research projects.
£5K RRP per year subject to approval.
The Royal London Hospital with cross site rotation to St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Mile End Hospital’s Community Diagnostic Centre and Early Diagnosis Centre
150 hours per month – compressed hours over 4 weekdays and some weekend working.
Specialist Practitioner Sonographers will work as part of multidisciplinary team to manage the pathway for patients referred for more complex ultrasound scans as part of the following specialties:
• Paediatrics
• Gynaecology
• Head and Neck
• MSK
• General
Due to the scope of practice required for these roles the post holder must demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and clinical experience, be statutory registered with a regulatory body in the UK and hold a Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE) accredited post-graduate (level 7) award in ultrasound. The post holder must also be able to evidence the four pillars of advanced practice and demonstrate core capabilities and specialty specific clinical competencies.
The post-holder’s contract will be for 7-day working pattern with compressed hours over 4 weekdays and some weekend working. The roles will be job planned to support clinical effectiveness with 80% Direct Clinical Contact time (to include supervision and training responsibilities and attendance at MDT meetings) and 20%
Supporting Professional Activities time (to include quality improvement, audit, research, clinical leadership and other teaching/educational activities).
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025