Clinical Specialist Sonographer

To undertake ultrasound imaging in a highly professional manner, and act as an accepted clinical expert in their Clinical Speciality.

To manage a patient caseload and be a recognised source of clinical expertise both within the Trust and externally.

To be a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing timely, responsive and patient centred ultrasound services both within the

base hospital and outreach situation.

To help enable the Trust to meet Key Performance Indicators and other service delivery objectives.

Assist others to attain Clinical Specialist status., To scan and report on a variety of third trimester obstetric ultrasound examinations, excluding Twins and multiple pregnancies and placental location, within the maternity department of East Sussex Healthcare NHS trust.

To ensure consistency of medical imaging quality, accurate informative report writing and maintain standards of patient care to the agreed departmental and trust standards and protocols.

1. Key duties include:

Undertake third trimester ultrasound examinations, maintaining a high, professional and technical standard of work at all times.

Use skills and in depth knowledge of anatomy and pathology to provide a diagnostic report of examinations.

To seek advice from sonographers in the main Ultrasound department or Fetal Medicine Consultant if there is doubt regarding placental location, fetal demise, difficult measurements or suspected fetal abnormality.

Be responsible for the safe conduct of any examination and welfare of the woman in the care of the sonographer.

To monitor and propose amendments, where necessary, to guidelines, policies, protocols and SOPs in current area of work/supervision with Fetal Medicine Consultant and Obstetric Lead

Communicating to women with empathy when abnormalities are highlighted, and potentially distressing results / diagnostic findings. Refer to Fetal Medicine Consultant and screening team of your concerns.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

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