Medical Photographer

This is a great opportunity to join Team LGT and work in the Trust’s internal creative agency. Content, Creative and Engagement brings together three teams who are responsible for promoting and protecting the Trust’s reputation internally and externally.
We are a busy, eclectic tribe of experts in our fields. Some of us have grown our careers within the NHS, and some of us have different backgrounds across design, photography, print, journalism, and communications, learning in sectors such as publishing, retail, and music. Regardless, we are all creative, agile, and proactive, working together to celebrate Team LGT, maintain and enhance our patient experience, and stay connected with our communities.
Ultimately, we are invested in the Trust’s vision of being exceptional and work together to communicate this to our colleagues, our patients, our communities, and our partners.
We are looking for a talented photographer to join our highly skilled team. The right person will be adaptable, working with both patients in a clinical environment and having the ability to work creatively alongside our experienced Designers and Communications and Engagement Officers.
Being both an empathetic clinical photographer and a visual storyteller, their technical and creative skills will be first class, and they will have the ability to flex according to different audiences.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
**Key Result Areas & Performance**:
**Clinical Photography**:
**The post holder will**:

- Be required to perform a range of clinical photography activities - The photography of clinical, dental and surgical conditions of patients which form part of their confidential medical record, which may also be required as part of a case report and/or medical evidence (court proceedings).
- Be required to run or support telederm clinics as required.
- Be responsible for the photography of specimens in the departmental studios or at any other reasonable location using digital imaging equipment.
- Required to use a variety of standard and specialist photographic equipment and to determine how to best utilise the equipment in order to achieve high quality images.
- Will need to determine how best to position the patient for photography and to effectively communicate this.
- For imaging of oral cavities this will also include ability to carry out delicate invasive procedures, i.e. the ability to place retractors and mirrors for intra oral photography.
- Have a basic knowledge of medical conditions and terminology in order to determine the appropriate medium and techniques to record a medical condition from details of that condition provided by doctors: i.e. what views are required when, for example, “rhinoplasty views” are requested or complete “mole mapping” or produce standard cleft lip and palate audit series of images.
- Awareness of standardised patient photography guidelines, as published by the Institute of Medical Illustrators.
- Know the anatomical planes dividing the human body, which allow for the accurate recording of the extent of deformities and consistency of follow-up photography.
- Be sensitive to the emotional and psychological effect of the patient’s condition and/or situation.
- Deal with clients' photographic enquiries on services offered and provide advice on cost and turn around; direct to other members of staff where necessary.
- To observe the requirements of each individual item of work with regard to quality, quantity and date required and to liaise with other members of the department as necessary to ensure the timely completion of the work.
- To ensure that the patient fully understands the purpose of the consent form and to check that this has been given according to the documentation received.
- To inform the patient of what will happen during the photographic process.
- Responsible for the timely upload of clinical images to the relevant digital archive database e.g. Fotoweb, Galerie and eDerma, with the appropriate metadata attached with minimum post production, if necessary, to maintain quality control prior to upload. This function operates via a Job Management System that links with the image dat