Job summary
- Main area
- Sonographer
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 150-DJ2579-PC-A
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across Sussex
- Town
- Crowborough
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Sonographer
Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to work for an NHS Trust that is inclusive, vibrant and celebrates success? Would you like to work for an NHS organisation where the values of compassionate care, working together, achieving ambitions and delivering excellence drive everything we do.
We are looking for an NHS-experienced sonographer to join our team providing the Community Radiology service for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust in East Sussex. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work autonomously, offering a service for general practitioners and visiting consultants.
SCFT support flexible working arrangements and we will work with you to ensure that you are able to balance your home and work commitments. In recruiting to this post we are pleased to be able to offer fulltime, part-time and job share opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will rotate through our Community Hospitals across East Sussex (Uckfield, Lewes and Crowborough).
As a skilled Sonographer you will provide a caring, compassionate approach within our high quality imaging team. You need to be able to work independently, demonstrating a high level of competence (aligned to NHS pathways, NICE and BMUS guidelines) and will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills. Candidates should be skilled in general abdominal and gynae scanning. Experience in small parts, lumps and bumps, and vascular scanning (DVT) would also be an advantage.
CPD is supported and the post holder will participate in regular peer review meetings and audit feedback. This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your professional and clinical skills
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job summary
To carry out ultrasound examinations in line with BMUS guidelines and professional competence.
To prioritise and organise own caseload.
To be able to work independently within a clearly defined set of department protocols and make informed clinical decisions in the absence of a Radiologist or seek a second opinion when required.
For each examination undertaken, a comprehensive diagnostic report will be formulated and returned to the referring clinician.
The post holder/s will be accountable for their own professional actions (including reporting) and have supervision responsibilities.
Please see job description and person spec attached for more detail.
Person specification
Qualifications / skills
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification in radiography or equivalent professional radiography qualification
- Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Medical Ultrasound
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Knowledge of advanced practice within a wide area of ultrasound applications.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive advanced clinical experience including a minimum of 2 years continuous practice post ultrasound qualification
- Experience of supervising and training sonographers and trainee sonographers at M-level.
- Knowledge of IT systems inclusive of Word, Teams, Excel and previous use of PACS and RIS
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced ultrasound skills with ability to undertake, assess and report own caseload of patients requiring ultrasound examinations.
- Ability to work autonomously, to organise ultrasound clinical service, workload and make informed clinical decisions.
- Experience of audit, research, quality improvement and assurance.
- Ability to communicate highly complex sensitive or technical information. using developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, empathetic or reassurance skills as required, including with patients who may have difficulty in understanding. Give example or scenario in application
Other
Essential criteria
- UK drivers licence/access to car
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Humphry
- Job title
- Deputy Operational Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 666491
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