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This is an exciting time to join the Radiology Department at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

We have been awarded the funding to support the vision for the West Essex Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) in providing timely access to diagnostics for all of the West Essex population, tackling health inequalities and achieving the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) for all potential cancer and non-cancer patients

PAHT sites, including St Margaret's Hospital, Epping (SMH) and Herts' and Essex Hospital, Bishops Stortford (HEH) via a hub and spoke approach will see better co-location of diagnostic services by offering streamlined diagnostic pathways with fewer appointments in a modern diagnostic setting

An opportunity is now available for enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Sonographers to join the Ultrasound team in senior roles.

You will scan and report independently on obstetrics, gynecology and abdominal ultrasound examinations to agreed protocols and standards.

Expertise in small parts and/or vascular ultrasound would also be an advantage. Consideration will also be given to sonographers specializing in just obstetrics and gynecology.

You will need to be a qualified sonographer holding a DMU or Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound, or equivalent, with appropriate registration (HCPC if a radiographer).

However, newly qualified staff will also be considered at an appropriate pay band.

• To carry out obstetric, gynaecological (including transvaginal scanning), abdominal and vascular ultrasound examinations to agreed protocols and standards. To provide written reports after synthesising patient history and scan findings into a diagnosis.
• To seek second opinion where necessary.
• Accountable for own professional actions and decision making when acting within clinical protocols.
• Communicating scan results to patients verbally as appropriate. This may be unwelcome and sometimes upsetting news; sometimes inconclusive results requiring explanation of how they may be interpreted (frequent emotional effort often resulting from mainly failing obstetric cases).
• Communicating scan results to the referrer with the appropriate degree of urgency patient management being dependent upon the examination findings (requiring extreme and continued concentration).
• Providing a very high standard of patient care at all times, referring patients for timely

management.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping.

Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart

• Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence

• Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration

• Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.

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