Sonographer

• Work as an Advanced Practitioner performing and reporting on a range of ultrasound examinations
• Provide a high standard of care at all times to patients and relatives.
• Be responsible for professional leadership and the education, training and development of self and others.
• Work across professional and organizational boundaries to improve patient outcomes.
  
  

To perform a range of scans and report on highly complex images whose acquisition is operator dependent, accurately differentiating between normal and pathological findings

• To perform biopsies and other interventional procedures (if suitably qualified) when appropriate
• To be a source of expertise for clinicians and more junior team members
• To work as a team member with a multidisciplinary approach to the service provided
• To provide a high standard of patient care at all times.
• To be responsible for education, training of self and others.
• Work in collaboration with other health care professionals and medical staff and across medical boundaries
• To facilitate a single team approach to develop a cross site ultrasound service
• To assist in developing cross site working patterns which will allow the delivery of an efficient and effective ultrasound service.
• Undertake out of hours duties as required by the service.
  
  

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Stephenson Job title: Service Lead Ultrasound and Breast Imaging Telephone number: 01484 342500