Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Photographer
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 287-BMED-62-24
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Liverpool Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Photographer
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy Medical Photography Department at Liverpool University Hospitals. This is an exciting time for our department in future developments of our service.
The service is primarily based at The Royal Liverpool Hospital, where we provide a wide range of medical photographic services for a variety of specialties including Trauma and Orthopaedics, Vascular, Dermatology, Infectious diseases. We work alongside clinical nurse specialists and clinicians from both medical and surgical divisions. The service also operates from a studio providing support for medico – legal services, general photography and videography.
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Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a friendly, self-motivated, enthusiastic, conscientious team member who is adaptable and able to work independently. The candidate will offer excellent interpersonal and communication skills and technical ability with knowledge of Photoshop and a thorough understanding of digital technology. A photographic degree is essential and experience within a department would be an advantage.
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Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You must have excellent organisational skills, a flexible approach and the ability to work professionally and sympathetically, in a sometimes stressful environment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Medical Illustration or equivalent
- State registered medical Illustration practitioner
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a clinical photographic section of a medical illustration department yielding the experience and skills identified below
Desirable criteria
- Teaching hospital experience
- Experience of working with a multidisciplinary medical illustration department comprising clinical photographers, medical graphic designers, reprographic and multimedia productions
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Photographic and video skills including clinical, commercial & PR using conventional and digital imaging technology.
- Good IT skills including working knowledge of the following Apple Macintosh computer programmes Photoshop, QuarkXpress and PowerPoint
- Photographic laboratory skills including mono, colour and E6 processing.
- Experience / knowledge of Digital Image Asset Management Systems
Desirable criteria
- A knowledge and understanding of other professions within the NHS and professions within a medical illustration services department.
- A good knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy
- Commitment to deliver high quality clinical photographic service
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills. Ability to liaise with members of the multi-disciplinary team in a courteous and professional manner in sometimes challenging situations
- The ability to communicate effectively and sympathetically with patients and relatives.
- Ability to work in physically demanding situations and cope with emotionally distressing circumstances
- Good organisational ability / ability to prioritise
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Ability to use own initiative
- Flexibility in working practice
- Confidentiality
- Accuracy
Desirable criteria
- Commitment to continuous personal development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jackie Soden
- Job title
- Clinical Photographer Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 706 2886
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