Band 7 Clinical Vascular Scientist

This job will enhance your performance through continuously developing your knowledge, skills and behaviours of a biomedical scientist making you more capable and confident than you were before starting the role. While also potentially leading to further development opportunities done the line.

You will be an effective member of the Vascular Lab team ensuring a high-quality, accessible and efficient service. To provide a comprehensive diagnostic and evaluative duplex ultrasound service to referring consultants and clinicians as appropriate, for patients suffering from peripheral vascular disease, lower limb ischemia, venous and carotid disease.

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job description

• To ensure that clinical standards in vascular sonography are maintained.
• To ensure that the scanning of patients is carried out as quickly as possible, consistent with keeping to the standard required and that the patients are sent home or to other departments with the least possible delay.
• Advise clinicians on interpretation of results. Recommend to clinicians further investigations or urgent review by Vascular Surgeons, where appropriate.
• Advice and counsel patients on both normal and distressing test results/conclusions.
• To adhere to departmental policies and keep up-to-date with developments in vascular technology, to attend courses and seminars as necessary.
• To assist the Lead Vascular Scientist with the organisation and supervision of junior staff in the department.

Person Specification & Qualifications

• HCPC registered & Practised as a Registered Biomedical Scientist
• IBMS registration portfolio
• A Biomedical Science Degree or equivalent.
• MSc in Vascular Ultrasound from CASE accredited University training programme.
• Society of Vascular Technology (SVT) accreditation.
• Previous proven NHS experience in vascular ultrasound scanning post qualification/accreditation.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Watford General Hospital

60 Vicarage Road

Watford

WD18 0HB