Overview
Are you an ambitious, highly skilled Sonographer looking to advance your career into a high-profile clinical leadership role?
Job Title
Band 8a Advanced Practitioner Sonographer – Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB)
Responsibilities
- Clinical Leadership & Specialist Surveillance Pathways
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Surveillance Coordination: Oversee, develop, and execute the service pathway for patients within the HCC surveillance program, ensuring accurate, timely imaging and rapid reporting in line with multidisciplinary team (MDT) requirements. Liaise with the liver clinic to develop an efficient booking system for service improvement and optimum patient satisfaction.
- Transplant Surveillance Specialist: Act as a clinical expert in complex liver and renal transplant surveillance ultrasound, evaluating graft health, vascular patency, and post‑transplant complications.
- Advanced Autonomous Practice: Provide expert, highly specialized independent scanning and interpretive reporting on an autonomous basis, delivering definitive differential diagnoses on highly complex caseloads.
- Operational Management & Deputising
- Deputy Modality Lead: Deputise for the Ultrasound Modality Lead, taking operational accountability for the day‑to‑day running of the department, staff scheduling, skill‑mix reviews, and ensuring strict adherence to waiting‑list management targets.
Benefits & Career Development
- Access to state‑of‑the‑art ultrasound equipment and integration with world‑class surgical and medical teams.
- Dedicated time and funding tailored toward your personal management, leadership, or clinical career aspirations.
- Comprehensive NHS staff benefits including flexible working patterns and health and wellbeing support structures.
Diversity & Inclusion
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. For staff with a disability, including physical disability, long‑term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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