# Sonographer

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Leytonstone
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Sonographer at Barts Health NHS Trust, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in Imaging, ensuring the appropriate imaging, reporting, and management of patients. You will maintain high professional and technical standards of ultrasound imaging, adhering to guidelines from organisations such as BMUS, RCOG, RCR, and NICE.

Key Responsibilities:

- Take professional and legal responsibility for ensuring high standards of clinical care and patient welfare.

- Interpret, analyse, and report clinical facts to form accurate procedures for a wide range of complex conditions.

- Carry out comprehensive assessments of patients with varied ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

- Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload and manage it effectively.

- Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent, and work within legal frameworks.

The post-holder will liaise with key Lead Nurses, Obstetricians, and Gynaecologists in the directorate of Women and Children's, and oversee day-to-day workloads in the absence of a Site Lead Sonographer. They will promote patient advocacy and communicate effectively with healthcare professionals and outside agencies.

The salary for this position ranges from £55,524 to £62,652 per annum.

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Ultrasound
- High level interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines
- Ability to deal with conflict and stressful situations
- Ability to deal with patients in an empathic and considerate fashion
- Ability to work under pressure

### Nice to have
- BSc Hons degree or DCR in Diagnostic Radiography

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