Specialist Paediatric Radiographer

Birmingham Women’s and Children; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Radiographer to join our imaging team. You will rotate between Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital delivering high-quality diagnostic radiography for children, neonates, and women across our sites.

The post requires HCPC registration, CPD evidence and ongoing professional development, with an on-call 24/7 service rotation and a commitment to family-centred care.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration is required and must be current for paediatric radiography.
• Evidence of CPD demonstrating ongoing professional learning.
• Evidence of career development and progression in radiography.

Responsibilities

• Perform diagnostic imaging procedures across paediatric imaging, including radiography for children, neonates and young people.
• Rotate between Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital to cover imaging services across both sites.
• Provide efficient, safe imaging services across both sites, supporting patient pathways.

Skills

HCPC Registration

CPD evidence

Career development

Job description

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This is YOUR place

• To be at the heart of brilliant care for women, children and young people.
• Where innovation, compassion, and opportunity meet to help transform lives.
• To make a unique impact from day one. As one of only two centres in the UK for women, children, and young people, this is where you can help bring prize-winning discoveries and game-changing innovations to life.
• To grow a thriving career and unlock your potential. Our unique and vast specialisms provide opportunities you won’t find anywhere else. No matter the career path you choose – you’ll have unwavering support for your ambition and a real investment in your learning.
• To discover a community of support. Where our strength comes from our people, who come from every walk of life and who work shoulder-to-shoulder across every discipline. Here, you’ll find a deep camaraderie and the support to take control of your career and find your passion – on the best days, and the toughest.

This is Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Trust.

This is your place, our place, the place.

Main area Radiography Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-call/Shift work/Weekends/Bank Holidays) Job ref 284-26-8241103-DMUT

Site Birmingham Children's Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and forward-thinking Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Radiographer to join our dedicated team of skilled and supportive professionals, helping to deliver high-quality imaging services to women, children, young people, and families across the West Midlands and beyond.

As one of the largest and busiest specialist radiology services in the country, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust provides imaging services for approximately 110,000 patients each year across Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a compassionate, family-centred, and patient-focused diagnostic radiology service, ensuring an excellent experience for children, young people, women, and their families.

The post offers the opportunity to rotate across both the Women's and Children's Hospital sites, gaining experience within a diverse range of specialist clinical areas and supporting a variety of complex patient pathways.

We are committed to the ongoing development of our workforce and are actively progressing a program of service improvement and staff development, within the General Imaging Department. We actively support flexible working opportunities and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where colleagues can develop their skills, progress their careers, and deliver outstanding patient care.

Main duties of the job

To work as an experienced Specialist Paediatric Radiographer within a multidisciplinary team, undertaking a comprehensive range of diagnostic imaging procedures including Major Trauma, Dental, Palatal Studies, Forensic Imaging, Urodynamics, Fluoroscopy, Theatre, Mobile/Portable Imaging, and other examinations in accordance with service requirements and within the scope of professional practice.

The post holder will rotate between Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital, supporting imaging services across both sites and providing specialist radiographic expertise to children, young people, neonates, women, and their families.

To provide an efficient, effective, responsive, and safe imaging service across both the Children's and Women's hospital sites, supporting acute, elective, inpatient, outpatient, emergency, theatre, neonatal, and specialist care pathways.

To perform imaging examinations to a consistently high technical and professional standard, ensuring image quality is optimised and that all examinations comply with departmental protocols, radiation safety requirements, and professional standards.

The post holder will be required to participate in a 24-hour, 7-day service, including shift work, on-call duties, weekends, and bank holidays, in line with departmental rotas and service needs across both Birmingham Women's Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of CPD
• Evidence of career development

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

• Ability to use and act on own initiative
• Ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand and be able to cope with highly charged situations.
• Recognise and effectively deal with traumatic and emotional situations.
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Self- motivated
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to work under close supervision and willing to accept constructive suggestions for improvement
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships
• Stamina to concentrate and work for extended periods of time

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Evidence of professional up-to-date knowledge
• Evidence of up-to-date technical knowledge
• Awareness of current NHS issues
• Up to date knowledge of paediatric medical conditions
• Post graduate knowledge and experience in all areas of paediatric general imaging
• Participation in Quality Assurance, research and development
• Experience of performing video-swallows independently
• Experience of undertaking Cone Beam CT
• Experience of forensic imaging

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Evidence of MDT working
• Good IT, literacy and numeracy skills including numerical interpretation
• PACS, RIS and IT experience with good Microsoft knowledge
• Ability to coordinate staff
• Able to manage resources effectively
• Awareness of HR policies
• Experience of Staff Appraisal process
• Experience of Preceptorship reviews

Sponsorship:

Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles in line with current UKVI regulations. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for sponsorship before submitting your application. If you would like more information, please visit: UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

Artificial Intelligence (AI):

We understand that some applicants may choose to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in preparing their application materials. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind candidates that all submissions must be truthful and accurately reflect your own experiences and suitability for this role. Personal integrity and authenticity are central to our recruitment process. We value honesty and appreciate applications that are genuine and representative of the individual behind them.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience. Such applications will unlikely be progressed to interview.

Reasonable Adjustments:

BWC is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive environment for those with disability, long term health or mental health condition. The Disability Confident scheme means we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities, long term health or mental health conditions, and we want to ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and accessible to all. Our aim is to get the best out of every individual and if successful for interview, you will be asked if you require any reasonable adjustments (special requirements). We will strive to support and accommodate these requests where possible.

Safeguarding

As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Name Charlotte Smith Job title Deputy Lead Radiographer - BW Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0121 333 9739 Additional information

Zoe Harrison

General Imaging Modality Lead Radiographer

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0121 333 9757