Ultrasonographer

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Band 7 Sonographer - (plus HCAS) with additional Recruitment & Retention Premium (RRP)

Our Ultrasound department consists of 16 rooms: 6 General, 6 Obstetrics, 1 EPAU, 1 ACU 1 ACU and 1 satellite clinic. All our rooms are all equipped with the latest GE machines. We are a busy and dynamic department doing a wide variety of examinations such as Obstetric, Gynae, General Abdominal, Small Parts, Vascular, Paediatric and MSK ultrasound.


We have a culture which fosters innovation and supports new ideas whilst also ensuring our people are well supported so that they have high rates of employee satisfaction and are professionally developing to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Job Summary

  • To independently scan and report examinations in obstetrics, gynaecology and general abdominal ultrasound. Paediatric, vascular and MSK ultrasound may also be performed depending on experience and training.
  • Please refer to the job description for more details
Key working relation relationships

  • All members of staff within the Department
  • All levels of hospital staff, patients and members of the public
  • He/she will develop a particularly close relationship with consultants and senior nursing and administrative staff


Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.


Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.


Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an

'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.


We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Roles and responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Skills

  • To communicate with other staff members to ensure the smooth running of the Department.
  • To communicate with patients and relatives in a professional and reassuring manner, especially in difficult or emotional circumstances.
  • To deliver distressing news/results to patients regarding fetal abnormalities with the appropriate empathy.
Knowledge and Experience

  • To undertake all ultrasound duties independently, efficiently and to provide a highly specialised clinical service.
  • To produce accurate reports and formal diagnostic opinion in a timely manner based on examinations undertaken.
  • To ensure that patients receive a high standard of care throughout all ultrasound specialties.
  • To display competence and confidence to undertake intimate procedures including transvaginal scans ensuring relevant consent procedures have been adhered.
  • To have the appropriate precise skills required for ultrasound techniques such as nuchal measurements in obstetric medicine.
  • To be able to demonstrate knowledge and expertise in the use of highly specialised equipment.
  • The postholder will be expected to be proficient, and to teach, in the more specialised techniques practiced in ultrasound scanning and the Obstetric Unit. To be able to propose a review of clinical procedures and protocols in the department.
  • To assist with the practical training and mentoring of more junior staff and student sonographers and to be capable of providing instructions/information to those staff in a motivational manner. They will also be required to train radiology registrars in ultrasound techniques.
  • The weekly hours of the appointee will reflect the 7 day working pattern of the department. To participate in the on call and stand by rotas as required. To be able to work independently in all areas of the department during these times.
  • To contribute to, and feedback from, meetings relevant to the imaging service i.e. to attend MDT meetings relevant to patients who have been in their care.
Judgment and Analysis

  • To be able to offer good clinical judgment when assessing and interpreting images produced by themselves or more junior staff.
Organisational Skills

  • To report and record all equipment faults. To be able to assist with the diagnosis and remedy of routine faults and

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