Job summary
- Main area
- Diagnostics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (Maternity cover vacancy - fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 210-2024-354
- Employer
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Countess of Chester Hospital
- Town
- Chester
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Photographer
Band 5
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviors.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit.
Job overview
Working Part time : 22.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and positive medical photographer to join our small team to help provide a comprehensive medical photographic and illustration service to our Trust and external customers.
We offer a wide range of services in the medical photography & illustration department at The Countess, which provides a great environment to use your skills. Please read the full job description for more detail.
This post is a 12 month maternity cover vacancy with no guarantee of employment after that. If applicable, a secondment may be considered subject to service needs and line managers approval for release.
Main duties of the job
Brief list of duties:
- Assist in the provision of medical photographic and illustrative services throughout the Trust
- Work as part of a team to deliver an efficient, professional, skilled and broad range of technical services
- Carry out medical photography and medico-legal photography in a studio environment and on wards / clinics to a consistent high standard, ensuring conditions are accurately interpreted and the correct lighting technique used ensuring it is medically and legally valuable
- Assist with the digital video service to the Trust (production / editing)
- Provide a high quality patient information design/illustration service to the Trust
- Carry out public relations (PR) photography
- Prepare teaching / publication materials and illustrations using PC or MAC
- Adhere to all department and Trust policies
- Maintain professional registration
- Ability to use Adobe Creative Cloud and other software applications for design and photographic work.
Working for our organisation
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person specification
Qualifications / Experience
Essential criteria
- BSc Medical Illustration / science degree or equivalent. Minimum 2 years clinical experience as a medical photographer. State registration – ACHS.
Desirable criteria
- Photographic / media related qualification (BA Hons / HND). IMI membership.
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of computer literacy including knowledge and experience using DTP, photo manipulation and graphics software e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud on PC and/or MAC.
- Ability to use a broad range of medical photography equipment
- Significant knowledge of photography
- Evidence of ability to work as a team member, including motivation of junior staff and working on own initiative
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
- Richard Cooke
- Job title
- Head of Medical Illustration and Corporate Design
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01244 365431
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