General Medicine Ultrasound Cross-site Lead | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	13 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	12 April 2026
Location:	Scunthorpe / Grimsby, DN15 7BH
Company:	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7867736/208-806631-26-1

Summary

We are looking for an experienced, passionate sonographer to lead our General Medical Ultrasound Service across Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG). Are you an experienced sonographer with an interest in General Medical Ultrasound? Do you have experience and knowledge within this sphere of practice? With additional skills that might include - head and neck / vascular / paediatric ultrasound for instance? If so, we are keen for you to join the Ultrasound team at NLAG.

This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of General Medical Sonographer Cross Site Lead and work within the Humber Health Partnership (HHP), delivering general medical ultrasound services, training and education. Primarily this roll includes cross-site working over the NLAG sites, but there is an expectation to work closely with colleagues at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) with whom we are in partnership.

In this crucial role, you will be responsible for leading and progressing general medical ultrasound pathways across NLAG. You will oversee the ultrasound processes, ensuring quality assurance and supporting 2 week wait and urgent referral pathways. Alongside this you will have a blend of clinical and managerial responsibilities, being responsible for things like: service improvements, policy development, team management, audit, training and development within the sphere of general medical ultrasound.

Working across-site you would be responsible for developing, delivering and enhancing the General Medical Ultrasound Service.

Responsibilities include –
• Upholding safe, effective service delivery within general medical ultrasound pathways, working closely with service / clinical leads across-site to support this.
• Undertaking a wide variety of medical ultrasound examinations, ensuring best clinical practice, alongside optimal diagnostic imaging.
• You will have a shared level of responsibility for all aspects of the NLAG Ultrasound service with the other Sonography Clinical Leads.
• You will act as the NLAG General Medical Lead, ensuring adherence to standards, providing feedback and support, monitoring departmental quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance with national standards and guidelines.
• Leading multidisciplinary image review sessions and liaise with Imaging Leads on quality improvement and training outcomes.
• Supervise and support training of staff within the sphere of general ultrasound.
• Manage clinical governance, incident reporting and service audit, to uphold imaging quality and patient safety.
• Co-ordinate departmental resources.
• Represent the service at Trust meetings, contributing to strategic planning and service improvement.
• Assist in oversee staffing, sickness, appraisals, recruitment, and performance monitoring.
• Ensure accurate documentation and data entry via hospital IT systems.


The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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This advert closes on Sunday 12 Apr 2026