Closing Date: Monday 22nd June 2026
Interview Date: TBC
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
We're seeking a confident and compassionate Midwifery Sonographer to work in our Maternity Ultrasound Service. As one of our Midwife Sonographers, you'll be working alongside our high-performing team, ensuring exceptional imaging standards and heartfelt maternity care.
Your Impact
* Champion excellence in patient care, staff development, and service delivery.
* Drive education, training, governance, and policy development.
* Make informed clinical decisions and mentor fellow sonographers.
* Perform and report independently on complex obstetric scans.
What You'll Bring
* Proven experience as a Senior Midwife and Sonographer
* Leadership that inspires trust and collaboration.
* Passion for quality improvement and professional development.
* Ability to inspire confidence and provide emotional support.
* A commitment to delivering safe, respectful, and compassionate care.
Why You'll Love It Here
* A warm, welcoming team who values their collaborative and inclusive culture.
* Opportunities to influence service development and shape best practice.
* Professional growth and leadership development.
* A workplace that values your voice, your vision, your growth and your expertise.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do.
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits
* On-site nursery
* 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays
* Cycle to work scheme
* Flexible working
* In house training and development
* Buying and selling of annual leave
* Subsidised restaurant
* Tranquillity garden
* Generous subsidised on-site parking
Job responsibilities
* To support the Superintendent sonographer in the provision of a professional ultrasound service.
* The role of the post holder (sonographer) is to perform and report independently on a wide range of ultrasound examinations. This includes Doppler and obstetric scans, as necessary throughout pregnancy.
* As well as writing reports for the medical profession and keeping appropriate records, the sonographer is required to communicate potentially distressing diagnoses directly to patients, and refer these patients appropriately.
* The maintenance of a high standard of patient care and medical ethics is essential.
* The sonographer is involved in the clinical training of ultrasound trainees and other medical personnel. They also supervise anyone working with them such as recently qualified sonographers and radiographic assistants.
* The sonographer participates in CPD and other developmental activities and takes part in research/audit as required.
Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge
* Advanced technical knowledge related to the efficient use, safety and maintenance of ultrasound equipment.
* Ability to use the Imaging IT systems.
* Well-developed specialist knowledge which is underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
* Expected to work towards Master's level ultrasound qualification plus extensive experience gained working, which enables scanning and report writing to be carried out without clinical supervision.
* Ability to impart clinical skills to trainee sonographers and other students on secondment.
Qualifications and Professional Training
* DCR (R)/BSc or Midwifery qualification
* DMU/PGD or PG Cert in ultrasound
* Registration with Health Professions Council (HPC) – midwifery
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to communicate highly sensitive complex information relating to pregnancy loss or abnormality or the patient's medical condition with empathy and reassurance.
* Analyse ultrasound images to describe and offer diagnoses from a range of possibilities which may lead to further tests/procedures.
* Ability to take initiative to make decisions or recommendations for the best interests of the patients.
* Ability to undertake audit within the dept.
* Ability to prioritise and organise unpredictable workload effectively.
Personal Qualities
* On a daily basis need to cope with highly distressing, emotional circumstances – giving bad news to patients/relatives and coping with their reactions. Also stress from 'difficult' patients and relatives.
* Ability to support other staff members.
* Need to be able to work in adverse conditions, sometimes in a hot confined area in half-light, often under severe pressure and to be able to manage their workload through various distractions e.g. doctors requiring urgent scans and urgent telephone calls.
* Consistent frequent high-level concentration throughout the day whilst scanning and writing reports.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.
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