Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Reporting Sonographer
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Reporting Sonographer Opportunity at Torbay South Devon Foundation Trust
We are seeking a qualified Reporting Sonographer to join Torbay South Devon Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team and aligns with significant change in leadership in the Ultrasound team and wider Radiology management, driving the service forwards with ambitions to make significant quality improvements.
Job Preferences:
- Full-time employment
- Working at Torbay and Newton Abbot sites
- Flexible arrangements (single site working or compressed hours)
Role Responsibilities:
- Work independently acquiring and interpreting diagnostic ultrasound images and issuing clinical reports to referring clinicians.
- Perform acute and elective general ultrasound scans and obstetric work, including some weekend work.
- Responsible for performing all designated ultrasound scans to departmental standards, following protocols and national guidance/best practice.
- Work in cooperation with Radiology support workers, sonographers, the lead sonographer, and consultant radiologists, undertaking delegated tasks and engaging in all four pillars of practice.
- Provide specialist training/mentoring and supervision for trainee advanced practitioners in postgraduate clinical ultrasound education.
- Assist in training and provide supervision for Ob/Gyn Registrars, radiologists registrars, and student radiographers.
- Supervise and assist clerical staff, support workers, assistant practitioners, student radiographers, and provide clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team of midwives, doctors, and nurses.
- Assist the superintendent in the appraisal and selection of ultrasound equipment for the Trust.
- Participate in a 7-day service, including emergency obstetrics and gynaecology scans on Bank holidays.
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Sonographer Team and Facilities:
- The Sonographer team consists of 12 WTE Radiographer and Midwife Sonographers, who undertake around 30,000 examinations/annum.
- There are a total of 11 ultrasound rooms, 6 within the Women's Health Unit, 3 general ultrasound rooms in the main Radiology Dept, and 2 at Newton Abbot Community Hospital.
- The service provides scanning support for the Acute medical, surgical, DVT, paediatric, Obstetric Gynaecology teams, GP, OP, and IPs.
- The team includes MSK specialists, general Sonographers, and those with specialist training in Gynaecology service with endometriosis investigation.
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For further details or informal visits, contact:
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Name: Hannah Furneaux
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Job Title: Principal Sonographer
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Email Address: hannah.furneaux@nhs.net
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Telephone Number: 01803 655619
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Name: Rebecca Redfern
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Job Title: Principal Sonographer
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Email Address: rebecca.redfern3@nhs.net
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