Main area Radiography Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 196-LIS10841E
Employer Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cross-site Town London Salary £58,133 – £65,261 p.a. inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/11/2026
Advanced Diagnostic Band 7 Radiographer
Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for talented and ambitious band 7 Radiographers to support the expansion of our imaging departments and the introduction of additional imaging capacity across our modalities.
The Band 7 Radiographers undertake a varied role working within all of the Trust’s Hospitals. You will already have highly developed skills and expertise in a wide range of modalities including CT, Interventional Radiography, Paediatric Imaging, Fluoroscopy, Emergency Department and General Imaging.
As a Band 7 Radiographer you will also need to be able to manage and lead an area of the Radiology Department in the absence of the Superintendent Radiographer. You will enhance your skills in all modalities whilst also gaining valuable experience in leadership and supervision.
We invite applications from high achievers who are able to deliver exceptional care and service within our team. The radiology department runs a 24/7 service and operates an out of hours system wherein radiographers are contracted to work out of hours shifts at night, on weekends and bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic person to join our team of Band 7 Radiographers. As one of the most successful and highly regarded teaching hospitals we are able to provide enviable opportunities for you to develop your career. We offer exposure to a fantastic combination of routine, varied and often highly specialised experiences. Our radiographers rotate across St Thomas’, Guy’s, Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Guy’s Cancer Centre. We have an impressive array of equipment but our greatest asset is our highly skilled, patient focussed and friendly team. Our sites are located in stunning central London locations giving you every opportunity for both social and professional rewards.
You will have highly developed skills and expertise in a wide range of modalities including CT, Interventional, Paediatric, Fluoroscopy, ED and General Imaging. You will also need to manage and lead an area of the Radiology Department in the absence of the Superintendent Radiographer.
We invite applications from high achievers who are able to deliver exceptional care and service. The radiology department runs a 24/7 and operates an out of hours system wherein radiographers are contracted to work shifts at night, on weekends and bank holidays.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We have over 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Attached you will find the job description and person specification documents which provide more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role.
We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Person specification
Professional/ Statutory Registration
- State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council UK.
Qualifications/ Education
- BSc Hons in Diagnostic Radiography or equivalent.
- Evidence of post graduate study
- Applies and effectively utilises professional and technological knowledge across a broad range of themes associated with role to support and enhance the patient care pathway – using specialist knowledge gained from training, courses and or experience including Master’s level or equivalent.
- Experience in a broad range of imaging modalities – to include Emergency Department imaging (including out of hours), Fluoroscopy and Operating Theatre environments.
- Experience and ability to supervise, mentor and support junior staff and students.
- Experience in leadership, co-ordinating theatres and mobiles or deputising in the absence of a superintendent.
- Recent clinical experience at senior Radiographer level in an acute healthcare setting.
- Clinical audit experience and implementation of audit findings / involvement in clinical governance.
- Experience in clinical evaluation of technology and procurement processes.
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
- Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of delivering potentially complex or sensitive information to patients and can identify and overcome barriers to effective communication.
- Exemplary professional appearance and approach and effective advocate for patients.
- Ability to work well with an interdisciplinary team and promote effective working demonstrating strong multidisciplinary team-working skills.
- Acquire diagnostic images with a high degree of physical skill and accuracy to fulfil the entirety of the patient pathway including positioning for the full range of patient presentations, intravenous cannulation and equipment function with a high degree of precision, considering patient limitations and adapting standard techniques where necessary.
- Working knowledge of IR(ME)R 2017 & IRR 2017.
- Able to effectively plan and prioritise patient workload, recognising when to seek support to ensure safe and efficient patient care.
- Experience operating full range of radiographic equipment including over-couch tubes, mobile Image Intensifiers with monitors and mobile x-ray machines (motorised and non-motorised).
- Participate and supervise others in the safe use of equipment demonstrating responsibility for specialist and expensive equipment including over-couch tubes, mobile Image Intensifiers with monitors, mobile x-ray machines (motorised and non-motorised) and accessory equipment.
- Contribute to discussion and clinical implementation of department policies and procedures related to role offering proposes changes relative to experience.
Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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