Band 6 Specialist CT Radiographer

Job summary

Job Title: Specialist CT Radiographer

Grade: NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 6

Directorate: Clinical Support Services / Imaging

Reports To: CT Lead / Principal Radiographer

Accountable To: Radiography Professional Lead / Head of Radiology

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (including full shift rotation: nights, weekends, and bank holidays)

Location: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Job Purpose:

To work as an autonomous, highly skilled practitioner within the specialist CT team, delivering a high-quality, safe, and efficient diagnostic service. The post-holder will perform a comprehensive range of complex and advanced CT procedures, ensuring maximum diagnostic accuracy while adhering strictly to radiation protection regulations. As a specialist in a major teaching hospital, the role involves managing complex clinical workloads (including trauma, stroke, and cardiac pathways), supervising junior staff, and contributing to the clinical training of student radiographers.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the CT team, you will deliver high standards of care leading the site CT team, working to build a service that is progressive and responsive to service needs, while being safe and cost effective.

It is important that you are able to work autonomously and are able to work flexibly within a team using your clinical expertise to provide a quality CT service.

You will need to be an experienced radiographer with some CT experience who is dynamic, highly driven, motivated, and experienced to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive vision for the development of new services for patients.

This post is full time with an expectation to be able to work across site when required and must have previous NHS experience.

Across UHB, the CT Imaging team run a twenty four hour service with out of hours on site emergency access to Imaging. You will be expected to participate in the 7-day shift system including nights, weekends, bank holidays and on call.

The CT service performs a wide variety of examinations on a range of Siemens CT scanners, and you will be expected to perform patient cannulation as required.

You will be expected to influence all related aspects of care and management of patients. You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals, be enthusiastic and committed to making a difference, and possess a desire to improve practice through ongoing personal and professional development.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.