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Job summary

Main area
Imaging - Radiography
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (7 day shifted work pattern)
Job ref
418-AHP4168-MR
Employer
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bedford Hospital
Town
Bedford
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

MRI Radiographer Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

Exciting Opportunity for Radiographers at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust!

Step into a role where every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth! We’re inviting passionate, qualified Radiographers to join our dynamic Imaging Department based at Bedford, with the unique chance to work across both Bedford Hospital and CDC sites. This rotation offers a varied and stimulating work environment, ensuring your skills are always sharp and your experience diverse.

As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you’ll collaborate with healthcare professionals from a range of backgrounds in a supportive and inclusive culture that truly values teamwork and mindfulness. Here, your expertise will directly contribute to delivering outstanding patient care and achieving excellent outcomes.

If you’re looking for a fulfilling career where your compassion and skill make a genuine difference every day, come join us — and be part of a community that’s dedicated to excellence and innovation in imaging services.

Main duties of the job

  • Actively contribute to the delivery of high-quality imaging services, ensuring the highest standards of patient care are maintained at all times.
  • Serve as a role model for radiographers, student radiographers, and other healthcare professionals, helping them develop their skills and become compassionate, competent practitioners.
  • Supervise staff within the clinical environment, providing guidance and support as needed to ensure the smooth operation of imaging services.
  • Deputise for the Modality Manager in their absence, taking on leadership and supervisory responsibilities to ensure continuity of care and service delivery.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.   Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, while the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both, please refer to the job description attachment included in the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc In Radiography or equivalent
  • HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
  • Post Graduate Cerificate/Diploma
  • Leadership Course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience within specified modality
  • Leadership skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to independently analyse and make judgements on complex information relating to patient care.
  • IT skills at an intermediate level with ability to use word, e-mail etc
  • Ability to use own initiative maintaining judgement when under pressure
  • Ability to resolve and manage conflicting demands on service resources.

Personal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to motivate, organise and manage a multidisciplinary team of staff and pass skills and knowledge onto others.
  • Ability to communicate sensitive and sometimes distressing information to patients
  • Ability to communicate with all levels of staff within the organisations and external users of the service General Practitioners, suppliers University etc
Desirable criteria
  • Open/Reflective/Warm
  • Enthusiastic and self-aware
  • Creative and Flexible
  • Team focussed
  • Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024Employer with Heart

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Michael Simpkins
Job title
MRI Modality Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01234 355122
Additional information

 

Available Mon-Fri, 08:45 am - 4:30 pm

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