Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Trainee Sonographer
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2 Year Fixed-Term, Full-Time post (37.5 hours per week)
Salary:
- Band 7 with Annex 21 applied
- Year 1 of Training: £36,966
- Year 2 of Training: £39,606
We are recruiting for a Trainee Sonographer who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.
This is a truly exciting time to join our team, we deliver first-class diagnostic care to our community in the newly developed Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC).
- The new centre has the ability to deliver joined up diagnostic care, and with increased capacity ensures our patients have faster access to treatment, earlier diagnosis, and improved outcomes.
- By becoming part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in innovative ways and play a central role in how we improve patient pathways, delivering the right test, at the right time, in the right place.
We are looking for a highly motivated, hard-working individual who is able to commit to an intense but highly rewarding training course. Applications are welcome from any healthcare professional with a 2:1 or above graduate qualification in their area of expertise.
In this post there is availability to undertake the clinical aspect of the Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound, with the taught component and assessment being provided by the University of the West of England. Units to be studied include abdominal, small parts, gynaecological and vascular ultrasound to M level. Upon successful completion you will be a qualified Sonographer (Ultrasound Practitioner) with a nationally and internationally recognised CASE accredited post-graduate diploma.
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- The qualification is provided by a CASE (Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographer Education) Accredited HEI and recognised by the Society of Radiographers and the British Medical Ultrasound Society.
- You will be training within a friendly team of dedicated and hardworking Sonographers within the Ultrasound Department at Isle of Wight NHS Trust.
- Our department is passionate at providing an effective and high quality service. We use state of the art ultrasound equipment currently all Canon Aplio i600 units. We have 3 dedicated ultrasound rooms and also undertake some portable scanning for inpatients using GE Venue ultrasound unit.
- We provide ultrasound services for patients from primary care and acute secondary care and have a number of Sonographer led services including ?DVT and TIA.
The post holder is required to hold, or be able to apply for HCPC, NMC or GMC registration as a condition of employment.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
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Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals, and award-winning attractions.
Our 2024-2029 'Working Together, Improving Together' strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Debbie Beare
- Job title: Lead Sonographer
- Email address: debbie.beare@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01983 822099 ext: 4133
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