Medical Photographer

Band 5 Medical Photographer

We require a Medical Photographer to join our small friendly department covering all areas of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Responsible for providing a high quality medical photography service, which includes clinical and non-clinical photography, graphic design, video recording and post production, and ophthalmic imaging.

Excellent communication/interpersonal skills, and a thorough understanding of image management / digital technology is essential.

There will be an occasional requirement to visit other hospitals within the Trust group.

Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

**Our values**: Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent.

All our relationships are based on empathy, respect, integrity and dignity. In every interaction and communication, we treat colleagues, patients and families with care and understanding.

We strive to continuously improve, to be the very best that we can be - as individuals and as an organisation.

Living within our means responding to the challenges of today and tomorrow in effective, efficient, innovative and optimistic ways.

We commit to excellence in everything that we do - placing patient safety and quality at our heart. We learn from mistakes and we do what we say we are going to do and hold ourselves and others to account for adhering to our values and the behaviours we expect.

Services are provided to hospital clinicians and general practitioners and the post-holder is required to liaise with these, other healthcare professionals, patients and their representatives.

The post-holder will be required to perform photographic and video procedures of varying complexity, some of which require a high degree of skill and experience.

The post-holder will exercise autonomy within professional and managerial boundaries and will be required to verify and validate completed work.

To meet these challenges you will be outgoing and self-motivated with the ability to switch from being a committed team player to being able to work alone when required.

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

Essential
- Good knowledge of digital imaging systems.
- Hospital environment and medical terminology.
- Understanding of and commitment to confidentiality and all governance issues related to Medical Illustration.
- Excellent knowledge of professional photographic equipment, digital imaging workflows.
- Professional knowledge over the whole range of medical illustration disciplines.
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients.

SKILLS/PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential
- Advanced level use of Industry standard software programs related to imaging including, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Advanced level of practical and technical knowledge of DSLR photographic equipment.
- Knowledge in set-up of controlled lighting arrangements.
- Customer care skills including a pleasant and professional telephone manner.
- Ability to empathise and negotiate.
- Caring attitude.
- Good forward planning and ability to manage and prioritise own workload effectively.
- Ability to handle a high volume of work.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Problem solver.
- Able to work flexibly.
- IT literate.
- Team worker.
- Able to use initiative and work alone.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.