CT Lead Radiographer

NHS; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Ipswich is seeking an experienced CT Lead Radiographer to oversee and manage their CT department. This role involves leadership, staff development, and ensuring high-quality imaging services. Candidates should be registered radiographers with significant experience in CT imaging and staff management. The position offers professional growth and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Registered with Health Care Professions Council.
• Experience in cannulation and CT.
• Competent at managing complex work areas.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day running of the CT department.
• Support the CT Manager with daily activity and planning.
• Ensure staff training and mentoring.

Skills

CT imaging competency

Leadership

Staff management

Clinical governance knowledge

Education

Registered radiographer (Health Care Professions Council)

Relevant CT training course

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

CT Lead Radiographer

The closing date is 07 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Radiographer to take on a key leadership role as CT Lead Radiographer within our dynamic Imaging Department.

You’ll oversee the day-to-day management of our busy CT service at Ipswich Hospital and upcoming community diagnostic centre. Working closely with the CT Manager, you’ll ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality imaging services that deliver excellent patient care and meet national and local targets.

This is a hands‑on leadership role that blends specialist clinical expertise with service management, staff development, and innovation. You’ll manage workflows, support staff, plan CT waiting lists, and drive service improvements.

We’re passionate about learning and development, so you’ll play a key part in training, mentoring and supervising new staff, students, and apprentices, as well as introducing new CT examinations and techniques. In return, you’ll be supported in your own professional growth through leadership and CPD opportunities including Trust leadership programmes available including other bite‑size training courses.

If you’re an enthusiastic, forward‑thinking Radiographer ready to lead and develop a high‑performing CT service, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Manage the daily running of theCTdepartment, ensuring effective workflow and a patient‑centred approach.
• Support the CTManager in overseeing and planning theCTwaiting list, monitoring daily activity, forward planning, and escalating issues as appropriate.
• UndertakeCTscans to a high professional standard and ensuring good radiation governance processes are in place to support both patients and staff.
• Ensure staff training and development, providing guidance, supervision, and mentorship to enable team members to work confidently and safely within the CTenvironment.
• Review and maintain CTpolicies, competency frameworks, and training programmes to ensure safe, effective, and compliant service delivery in line with national and local access targets.
• Monitor staff compliance with mandatory training, Trust policies, and professional standards, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Liaise with the CT Manager and other senior staff to plan service delivery, manage capacity, and support service development.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered radiographer (Health Care Professions Council)
• Cannulation certificate and current experience of regular cannulation insertion.
• Relevant CT training course and/or post graduate CT qualification

Experience

• Significant proven experience at Band 6 radiographer level or above
• Competent at full range of CT imaging with significant experience of CT scanning
• Current experience of managing a complex area of work and leading a multi‑disciplinary team
• Current experience of staff management in MDT working
• Experience of accountability for patient flow and access targets.
• Involvement with devising and implementing competency frameworks for staff training
• Experience of investigating DATIX incidents and managing outcomes

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of Clinical & Radiation Governance relevant to imaging and managing a modality area.
• Knowledge of current issues within healthcare and radiography.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Good, current working knowledge of CT Scanning.
• Able to demonstrate involvement with implementing new processes, project management or introduction and managing training for implementation of new equipment in clinical working.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust