# US Modality Lead Sonographer **Company**: The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Uxbridge **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9394-26-0497?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_67202fa3-978 ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Trust as an Ultrasound Modality Lead Sonographer. We are recruiting for a Band 8A Lead sonographer post, based across both our Hillingdon and Mount Vernon Hospital sites. Post holders will be responsible for leading the Ultrasound department and managing its day-to-day operations in the absence of senior management. The successful candidates will have extensive experience across a wide range of non-obstetrics, general and specialist ultrasonography. You will have a proven track record of teaching and mentoring students and staff. The role includes maintaining a clinical workload, performing ultrasound lists at an advanced practitioner level, acting as practice educator to trainee and newly qualified sonographers, and making clinical judgments based on the assessment and interpretation of ultrasound findings, including complex cases. The post holders will be expected to be an expert practitioner and lead non-obstetrics ultrasound and provide cross-cover for obstetric ultrasound services, working collaboratively across the Trust to support consistent, high-quality patient care in all ultrasound areas. The post holder will maintain a balanced role, dedicating 50% of their working time to providing high-quality ultrasound examinations and 50% to management, service development, and leadership activities. **Main duties of the job** - To be responsible for the management and day-to-day running of the specialised services pertaining to the ultrasound unit. - To ensure diagnostic targets for the ultrasound service are met. - To be responsible for the management and development of the specialist service ensuring optimum use of staffing and equipment resources within the modalities. - To lead and participate in the clinical audit & clinical governance programmes. - To be responsible for scanning patients and producing independent reports for non-obstetric, general and specialist medical ultrasound studies. - To act as practice educator and take an active role in teaching & practical training of student sonographers, specialist registrars & others in training. - To be responsible for the professional leadership and training of the team, providing a high-quality patient-focused service. - To be responsible for sonographer & support staff rota management and liaising with the radiology admin lead and maternity admin team to ensure adequate capacity to meet the demand. - To ensure maintenance of equipment and a safe working environment. - To provide a service across all sites **Benefits** - Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year per annum (incl. of HCAA), plus R&R payment of £5,000. - Permanent, full-time contract **Requirements** - Significant experience post qualification at Band 7 level - Experience of leading and managing a team - Participation in clinical audit - HCPC, NMC or RCT registration - Postgraduate qualification in Ultrasonography - Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to work and inspire a team ## Skills ### Required - Ultrasonography - Leadership - Communication - Teaching - Mentoring - Clinical audit - Governance ### Nice to have - Participation in performance targets / data collection and action plans - DCR/BSc in radiography - Management qualification --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9394-26-0497?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)