We are looking for an experienced Midwife Sonographer to join our team of dedicated professionals, who strive to deliver quality, safe and personalised care to 8,300 women and birthing people every year. If you are looking for a team who value your clinical expertise, encourage your leadership skills and support you to develop and grow, then we are the team for you.
This vacancy attracts an incentive payment of £5,000* for the successful candidate (*pro rata).
Main duties of the job
As a Midwife Sonographer, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, triage and support to women and birthing people throughout pregnancy. You will be required to maintain accurate documentation on BadgerNet, our new maternity Electronic Patient Record system.
Closing date of applications: 29 December 2024
Interview date: 10th January 2025
About us
Working for your organisation
At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology. We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration. This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for. As a University Trust we value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. First class degree or equivalent
2. NMC registration & revalidation requirements
3. UK CASE accredited BSc hon or equivalent Ultrasound qualification
4. Pending completion - UK CASE accredited PG Cert/BSc/MSc in Ultrasound-general & Obs/Gynae of short courses
Desirable
1. Demonstrable post registration practice to broaden knowledge and experience
Skills
Essential
1. Evidence of communication within a multidisciplinary team
2. Evidence of empathy and understanding to patients/carers
3. Evidence of Basic keyboard/IT skills
4. Evidence of manipulation of U/S equipment and patients to achieve best results
Experience
Essential
1. Evidence of ability to assess patients condition to achieve optimum examination results
2. Evidence of ability to interpret clinical information to ensure correct technique
3. Experience of mentoring, supporting, coaching and developing staff
4. Demonstrable Ultrasound scanning experience within a Hospital setting
Planning and Organisation
Essential
1. Evidence of planning own workload
2. Evidence of departmental organisation
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
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