Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 230-36774611-UEC-R
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 04/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Reporting Radiographer XR
NHS AfC: Band 7
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour aren’t as likely to apply unless they meet every qualification of non specialist roles.
We’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and meet our values, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the Job Description or Person Specification– apply anyway or email the Recruiting Manager to discuss the role further
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Job overview
Reporting Radiographer XR
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: Band 7 (dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 4th December 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.**
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
- To provide the Trust with a high-level reporting service for a specified range of XR images.
- Clinical input into the service, including producing independent free text reports of a specified range of XR images; recommending next step in patient pathway where appropriate.
- Post holder is directly responsible to the imaging service manager but is autonomous and responsible for providing written and verified radiological reports in own name and to be accountable for these reports.
- Post holder is responsible for working within own competency and referring any images outside this to a consultant radiologist
- Be part of a team working on quality improvement ensuring consistent high quality XR images from all radiography staff and students.
- First line managerial responsibilities for all aspects of the general service including staff recruitment, appraisals, sickness management, assisting in the monitoring of performance management with regards technique and quality and obtaining & maintaining processes for service user feedback.
- To provide an XR service to the Trust, by providing high quality images and participate in out of hour’s rota.
- To develop and improve professional expertise via continuous professional development (CPD).
Working for our organisation
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. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
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 and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Autonomous practitioner within a multi-discipline team responsible for writing and verifying a radiological report of a range of specified XRs in a final, free text version using a voice recognition system.
- Responsible for making clinical decisions which may have direct impact on patient management and treatment contributing to an effective care pathway for the patients.
- Recommending next step in patient care and requesting next step in imaging for trauma patients.
- Follow protocols for communication of unexpected clinical findings which may involve additional imaging.
- Provide training and assessment of under graduate radiography students, APs and radiographers as required.
- Produce images of sufficient quality for the diagnostic and treatment process in accordance with professional, technical and legal standards and act as point of reference for technique advice for radiographers.
- Contribute to continual improvement of image quality within the department.
- Functioning in accordance with best practice and in a manner that meets professional, departmental and legal standards and requirements.
- Provide specialist knowledge, verbal or written opinions/advice to medical staff and others, as required.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • In depth knowledge of anatomy physiology and pathology and imaging protocols according to specialty
- • Knowledge of current radiographic and wider health care issues
- • Experience of team leadership
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc or equivalent in diagnostic radiography
- • Post graduate qualifications or equivalent qualification in area of specialty reporting
- • State Registration with the Health Professionals council
- • Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable criteria
- • Student clinical assessors course
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Advanced skills in a specialist area, i.e. film reporting in chest and abdominal, appendicular and axial skeleton
- • Ability to use initiative, analyse and solve problems, make decisions
- • To use analytical and judgement skills to interpret highly complex images and therefore be able to differentiate between normal and abnormal appearances of the anatomy demonstrated.
- • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to communicate to a broad audience.
- • Ability to cope with work pressures and manage time effectively
Desirable criteria
- • Presentation skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Sinkala
- Job title
- Lead Reporting Radiographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 865316
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