Lead Sonographer

**Band 8b**:
**Main area**
- Radiology
- **Grade**
- Band 8b
- **Contract**
- Permanent: Cross site working.
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota working)
- **Job ref**
- 343-5275837-FM-NP-A-Y**Site**
- Epsom & St Helier Hospitals
- **Town**
- Epsom/Carshalton
- **Salary**
- Dependant on experience.
- **Closing**
- 07/07/2023 23:59- As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19._

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values

**Job overview**:
The post holder will:

- Assume operational leadership for ultrasound services across the Trust, in line with best practice and national standards.
- Provide leadership and direct line management of the Deputy Lead Sonographer and Sonographers with Advanced Practice, including vascular and obstetrics, ensuring communication, risks and services are managed appropriately.
- Provide leadership and direct line management of the Lead Reporting Radiographers
- Have extensive knowledge and experience of managing ultrasound waiting lists and be responsible for delivery of all national standards in Ultrasound
- Lead on roster and rota management for Ultrasound services
- Lead and manage demand and capacity planning
- Ensure staff training and competency assessment is in line with CQC requirements
- Take the lead on developing new services and roles within Sonography
- Provide operational, financial, performance and quality management for the areas of responsibility
- Work as an advanced ultrasound practitioner in ultrasound imaging with significant experience and knowledge to provide and facilitate an expert level of care to patients, ensuring staff are supported with the appropriate level of expertise
- Deputise for the Head of Radiology

**Main duties of the job**:

- Act as a key member of the directorate, taking a lead role in the strategic development of the service. Consider possible new ways of working or organisational change that would improve the service delivered.
- Be the professional contact to develop services / strategies to meet local and national targets for : NHSE, NHS London, SWL ICP, Voluntary agencies and Professional bodies.
- Link with networks across the wider health community at both national and local levels to develop and plan strategies for the service
- Provide expert clinical and professional leadership and supervision for the trust.
- Lead on complex decision making within the Ultrasound department, ensuring best-practice is followed at all times
- Develop an enabling culture within the Sonography service that supports others to succeed and flourish
- Mobilise the energy and commitment of all team members and actively encourage innovation and improvement from others
- Actively promote a culture of openness, transparency and candour ensuring that any concern raised is treated seriously and dealt with promptly
- Be responsible for the overall effective day to day operational running of the ultrasound service.

**Working for our organisation**:
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications and Further Training**:
**Essential criteria**:

- DCR or BSc
- Postgraduate Diploma Ultrasound or International equivalent
- Advanced ultrasound practice qualification at master’s level or equivalent.
- HCPC/ Governing body professional registration
- Post-graduate Leadership and management qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Budget experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Advanced Training in obstetrics /gynaecology, MSK, general and vascular ultrasound

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of management of change processes to support service delivery
- Extensive cross-sectional experience at a senior level in NHS
- Evidence of acting as an independent pr