Job summary
- Main area
- Imaging
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-IM-6416331
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- West Midlands
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Superintendent Sonographer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Group Management to identify service development opportunities and develop business cases and plans in support of the Group’s objectives. The successful candidate will lead the Team of Sonographers supporting development and advanced practice.
Why not take this exciting opportunity to come and join our very skilled and dedicated team as we move forward to our state of the art new hospital? Weekend and Bank Holiday working will be part of your normal working pattern.
Main duties of the job
Reporting directly to the Deputy Group Director of Operations, the post holder will provide day to day management of the non Obstetric Ultrasound Department . Supported by a forward thinking Operations Team, the post holder will develop the Team of Sonographers, supporting their development
Key responsibilities include: Developing and implementing service strategies and business plans/cases, Ensuring operational effectiveness and efficiency, Budgetary control, Performance against national and local targets/key performance indicators/outcome measures. Effective clinical governance and risk management procedures. In addition the post holder will be required to be involved clinically in line with service needs.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bsc Medical Ultrasound
- Qualified to perform and report range of Ultrasound scans
- Additional skill mix ability, able to scan a wide range of areas
Desirable criteria
- Relevant management experience/previous experience of Line managing a Team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist expertise underpinned by theory and extensive practical experience in the range of ultrasound techniques which are required
- Must be able to work independently and be competent to write a concise and accurate report
- High standard of clinical skills
- IT Skills to use the necessary system / image recording system
- UK NHS ultrasound clinical experience
- Line management experience of staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience at writing protocols / guidelines and patient care pathways using research based evidence of best practice
- Experience in research and development
- Experience performing PDR/sickness absence
communication skills
Essential criteria
- communication skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- CJ Browne
- Job title
- Group Director of Healthcare Professions
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 507 5686
- Additional information
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