Sonographer

Job summary

Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC)

Located next to Ealing Hospital, the CDC will allow patients to access planned diagnostic care nearer to home without the need to attend acute hospital sites. These services will be separate to urgent diagnostic scan facilities, allowing shorter waiting times and a reduced risk of cancellation which can happen when more urgent cases take priority.

The CDC will help achieve the following ambitions:

To improve population health outcomes by diagnosing health conditions earlier, faster and more accurately

To increase capacity in the diagnostic service by investing in new facilities, equipment and training new staff, contributing to recovery from COVID-19 and reducing pressure on acute hospital sites

To improve productivity and efficiency by streamlining the way we provide acute and elective (planned) diagnostic services where it makes sense to do so; redesigning clinical pathways to reduce unnecessary steps, tests or duplication.

To contribute to reducing health inequalities by ensuring everyone has the same access to care and the same health outcomes.

To deliver an improved diagnostic service and more personalised experience by providing a single point of access to a range of services in the community.

To support more joined-up care across primary, community and secondary care.

Although the CDC will be you base site you will be expected to rotate across the other 3 sites of the Trust at Ealing, Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

Perform high quality ultrasound examinations using analytical and judgement skills to interpret complex images.

Formulate comprehensive, diagnostic, independently written reports for each examination.

Communicate distressing and unwelcome/unexpected news directly to patients using tact, empathy and diplomacy.

Communicate complex information regarding diagnosis/treatment directly to clinicians and patients.

Maintain personal clinical expertise in ultrasound scanning including ongoing CPD

Review, update and maintain the patients' clinical records.

Participate in teaching students and clinicians in the field of ultrasound. Participate in the departmental QA and vetting of ultrasound requests.

Deal with conflicting demands from different staff groups at all levels.

Have flexible approach to work and ability to work under pressure of high workloads

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.