MSK Ultrasound Cross Site Lead
The closing date is 14 April 2026
We are looking for an experienced, passionate sonographer to lead our Musculoskeletal (MSK) Ultrasound service across Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG). If you have advanced MSK ultrasound knowledge and skills, and are ready to take the lead within this area of ultrasound, we encourage you to join the Ultrasound team at NLAG.
This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of MSK Cross Site Lead and work within the Humber Health Partnership (HHP), delivering MSK ultrasound services, training and education. Primarily this role includes cross‑site working across the NLAG sites, with an expectation to collaborate closely with colleagues at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) as our partners.
In this crucial role you will be responsible for leading the MSK service across NLAG, setting up an interventional procedures pathway, and overseeing patient referral pathways, quality assurance, and harmonised working within the HHP multidisciplinary team. You will also have a blend of clinical and managerial responsibilities – service improvements, policy development, team management, audit, training and development.
Main duties of the job
Working across sites, your responsibilities will include developing, delivering and enhancing the MSK and associated Interventional Ultrasound Service:
* Upholding safe, effective service delivery within MSK Ultrasound, working closely with Service and Clinical Leads across sites.
* Undertaking a wide variety of MSK ultrasound examinations, ensuring best clinical practice and optimal diagnostic imaging.
* Sharing responsibility for all aspects of the NLAG Ultrasound service with other Sonography Clinical Leads.
* Acting as the NLAG MSK lead, ensuring adherence to standards, providing feedback and support, monitoring quality assurance processes, and ensuring compliance with national standards and guidelines.
* Leading multidisciplinary image review sessions, liaising with Imaging Leads on quality improvement and training outcomes.
* Supervising and supporting the training of staff within the sphere of MSK ultrasound.
* Managing clinical governance, incident reporting and service audit to uphold imaging quality and patient safety.
* Coordinating departmental resources.
* Representing the service at Trust meetings, contributing to strategic planning and service improvement.
* Assisting in overseeing staffing, sickness, appraisals, recruitment, and performance monitoring.
* Ensuring accurate documentation and data entry via hospital IT systems.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our partnership is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20 000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital; Scunthorpe General Hospital; Goole and District Hospital (NLAG), and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital (HUTH).
As teaching hospitals working with Hull York Medical School, we lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our partnership and our community.
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below. As a trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees – this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life, and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career. If it works for you and the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/.
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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if required for their role.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
* Professional qualification and relevant background (e.g. BSc Radiography / Nursing)
* Post Graduate diploma in Medical Ultrasound (CASE accredited or equivalent)
* PGCert/MSc in MSK
* Current and up‑to‑date registration through HCPC / NMC
* Experience/knowledge of implementing an interventional MSK service
* MSc in Medical Ultrasound / working towards
Knowledge and skills
* Highly developed specialist knowledge of MSK Ultrasound underpinned with theoretical knowledge.
* Leadership experience and service development achievement within an imaging department.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Scunthorpe / Grimsby with cross‑site working essential
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