Advanced Practitioner - Ultrasonographer inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
TUE 10 DEC 2024
As part of a university teaching hospital, the successful applicant will engage in continuous professional development (CPD) and have opportunities to mentor trainees and newly qualified staff, fostering their transition into advanced practice. The department actively encourages the exploration of new techniques and special interests, with regular CPD sessions and involvement in training specialist registrars in diagnostic ultrasound. Candidates will be responsible for maintaining high standards in ultrasonography, issuing diagnostic reports, and contributing to the education and development of future sonographers.
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic advanced practitioner sonographer to join our friendly team at LUHFT.
Our ultrasound team work in primary, secondary & tertiary centres across 6 Liverpool sites allowing diverse variety of cases throughout our workload.
We are a large, busy university teaching Trust with a major trauma unit & multiple specialist medical areas. Our experience in acute patient management & diagnosis is exceptional priding ourselves on our multidisciplinary approach.
As part of our busy workload our sonographers have special interests in gynaecological, hernia, head & neck, testicular, dialysis access, transplant, lithotripsy, vascular & MSK US.
We expect candidates to run their own list, manage demand & participate in training. We actively encourage & promote CPD with all of our staff. No obstetric ultrasound is performed in our Trust.
- Our multi-disciplinary team undertakes a comprehensive range of ultrasound examinations that include abdominal, gynaecological, vascular, MSK and small parts. We are keen to encourage new techniques and special interests in our department. We actively encourage and promote CPD and learning with all of our staff involved in our regular ultrasound CPD sessions and through attendance and presenting at external courses and conferences. Sonographer led peer review audit in undertaken regularly.
We are a keen training centre for new sonographers with a mentorship framework for trainees and newly qualified staff in place to help with their training and eventual transition into advanced practice. As a university teaching hospital, we also are involved in the training of specialist registrars in all aspects of diagnostic ultrasound.
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Please refer to the detailed Job Description attached
Performance of clinical ultrasound duties as delegated by the Ultrasound Manager in charge of the Ultrasound Department.Maintenance of a high standard of all aspects of ultrasonography.Issuing of diagnostic ultrasound reports according to protocol.
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