Clinical Imaging Assistant Team Lead

Cobalt Health; Warmley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A medical charity in the UK is seeking a Clinical Imaging Assistant Supervisor to lead a team, ensuring efficient patient flow and supporting radiologists. Responsibilities include task allocation, overseeing safety and confidentiality, and assisting with procedures. Candidates are required to have supervisory experience and strong IT skills. This role involves variable shifts and offers a supportive work environment focused on patient care.

Benefits

Company salary sacrifice pension scheme

27 days holiday plus public holidays

Life assurance cover at 4 x annual salary

Support for professional and personal wellbeing

Complementary healthcare scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience of working or volunteering within a healthcare setting.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Physical dexterity and coordination for patient positioning.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the clinical imaging assistant team.
• Allocate tasks and ensure staff coverage across modalities.
• Provide real-time oversight of patient flow and turnaround times.
• Assist radiographers and radiologists with procedures.

Skills

Good IT skills

Supervisory or leadership experience

Experience working with the public

Understanding of health and safety

Good attendance and punctuality

Education

Sound demonstrable educational background

Job description

• Town/City: Cheltenham and Gloucester
• Contract Type: Permanent. 37.5hpw

The job

You will supervise the clinical imaging assistant team on a day-to-day basis, maintaining and monitoring workforce deployment across the clinical services, liaising with modality managers to achieve the skill mix based on the service requirements. As part of our team of clinical imaging assistants you will work closely with radiographers, consultant radiologists and surgeons and other healthcare professionals. The role is busy, varied and rewarding. Your day-to-day duties will include:

• Lead on-shift supervision of the CIA team: allocate tasks and breaks, ensure cover across rooms/modalities/scanners and maintain a clear responsibility for team members.
• Provide real-time oversight of patient flow, turnaround times and capacity; reprioritise work and redeploy staff as needed; escalate delays, incidents or staffing risks to line manager.
• preparing patients for examination and accompanying patients to and from scanner rooms
• carrying out patient safety screening checks
• assisting radiographers and radiologists with procedures
• clerical tasks such as data input, image transfer, ordering stock of consumable items

Shifts will involve working variable days over a 7-day week, (mix of shifts 11.5hrs, 8hrs and 6hrs by rota with a 30-minute unpaid break) based on rotation at Cheltenham Imaging Centre and Gloucester Community Diagnostic Centre. Enhancements apply to weekend and bank holiday working.

The skills, experience and knowledge required for this role are sound demonstrable educational background and qualifications, good IT skills, supervisory or leadership experience, extensive experience of working or volunteering with members of the general public. Proven experience of working or volunteering within a healthcare setting.

You will be committed to providing safe, caring and accessible care to patients. You will enjoy being part of a highly professional and diverse team. Flexibility and adaptability to change in a fast paced working environment. You will have a good understanding of health and safety, patient confidentiality, discretion and trustworthiness. Physical dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills will be essential in supporting radiographers with positioning patients for their scan. You will be reliable and a good attitude towards attendance and punctuality.

Cobalt

Cobalt Health is a medical charity pioneering innovation in medical imaging diagnosis by investing in equipment, integrated research and education to improve outcomes for patients now and in the future. Each year it provides diagnostic imaging for over 160,000 patients at its imaging centres and on mobile scanners located across the UK. The Charity is the leading provider of ultra-low dose CT lung cancer screening services in the UK, working in partnership with the NHS.

I CARE – our values - our culture - our purpose

Patient care is at the heart of all we do. We carefully select people who can show us how they share these same values and can contribute to a culture of respect, diversity, vision and a commitment to continuous learning and development.

Benefits and rewards

• Company salary sacrifice pension scheme
• 27 days holiday plus public holidays rising with service
• Life assurance cover at 4 x annual salary
• Support for professional and personal wellbeing
• Employee benefits programme
• Complementary healthcare scheme
• Service recognition

How to apply (please read carefully)

To apply, please read through the job description and personal specification, download an application form below and upload it along with your CV.

Interviews: Thursday 23rd October and week commencing 27th October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once sufficient applications have been received.

Please be aware that Cobalt is not able to sponsor non-EU/EEA Tier 2 applications.