Qualified Sonographer/Trainee Nurse Sonographer: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

Are you a highly skilled sonographer with specialist expertise in gynaecology? UHCW is offering an exciting opportunity to join our consultant-led team as a senior clinical specialist. You’ll lead service development, scan and report autonomously, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of gynaecological ultrasound care.

We are looking for either a Qualified Sonographer or a Trainee Nurse Sonographer. Banding will be dependent on Experience, if unable to recruit a band 7 Qualified Sonographer, a Trainee Nurse Sonographer will be considered. If offered a band 6 post, Training would take up to 2 years before progressing to a band 7 position upon.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Ability to exercise judgement when dealing with patient enquiries, analyse and resolve patient problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to establish and maintain relationships and gain the co-operation of others. This includes medical staff, other healthcare professionals, patients and relatives.
• Maintain effective relationships and have regular communication with ultrasound team, Consultants, administrative staff and Senior Management within Gynaecology
• Ability to undertake training and achieve agreed level of competency in the use of IT applications required in the department.
• The physical skills required to perform a range of ultrasound examinations including excellent hand-eye co-ordination. Essential sensory skills would be sight, hearing, and touch. In addition, the need for dexterity, manipulation, accuracy and keyboard skills.
• Be able to communicate to a broad range of individuals in a professional and caring manner including those whose first language is not English, or who may, for whatever reason, have difficulty understanding. These individuals include patients, visitors, clinical, technical and other staff.
• Exercise judgement and initiative based on acquired experience and knowledge to address both clinical and management issues.
• Build and promote interprofessional understanding and networks with peers and colleagues.
• Prioritise workload pertaining to urgency of ultrasound referrals, including inpatient scans.
• To professionally and legally take responsibility for providing a high standard of clinical care and patient welfare, and supporting other staff to do likewise.
• Provide a patient focused approach to imaging, ensuring that patient needs are met in a timely, professional and efficient manner

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 10 September 2025