NHS Orkney
Specialist Cross Sectional Radiographer (Two positions available)
Specialist Cross Sectional Radiographer (Two positions available)
KirkwallOn-Site
PermanentFull-Time
£43,231 - £52,679per annumFTE
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Description
About the Organisation
NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you’re new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.
Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We’re also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.
We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do – Open and honest, Respect and Kindness – from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.
About Orkney
With over 70 islands – 20 of them inhabited – Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it’s a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that’s both fulfilling and inspiring.
The Position
Join NHS Orkney as a Specialist Cross Sectional Radiographer and develop your career in a setting where your expertise, judgement and contribution have a direct impact on the community you serve. Based at The Balfour, you will be part of a small radiology team delivering essential imaging across planned, urgent and emergency care. The role combines general radiography with cross-sectional imaging, offering the opportunity to maintain a broad clinical skill set while developing your specialist practice.
Remote and rural radiography offers both professional challenge and considerable reward. You will encounter a varied workload, exercise clinical judgement and work closely with colleagues across hospital and community services. With no resident consultant radiologist, effective communication, sound decision-making and knowing when to seek specialist advice are central to the role. Support comes through the departmental leadership team and links with radiology colleagues in NHS Grampian, combining local professional autonomy with access to wider expertise.
This is an opportunity to contribute beyond the examination itself. You will help improve imaging pathways, participate in audit and quality improvement, and support the learning of colleagues and students. There is scope to build your confidence and capabilities through continuing professional development, with further training opportunities considered in line with your experience and service needs. Participation in the departmental on-call rota, currently approximately one in five, is an integral part of maintaining access to urgent imaging for our island population.
For patients, access to imaging locally can mean less travel, less disruption and care closer to home. For you, this role offers the chance to see the value of your work first-hand, develop breadth alongside specialist expertise, and help shape a responsive, sustainable radiology service. If you are looking for a role that will stretch your practice, strengthen your confidence and allow you to make a meaningful contribution to island healthcare, Orkney offers a rewarding next step.
The Candidate
We’re looking for a radiographer with a commitment to developing cross-sectional imaging skills. CT is essential and MRI experience would be welcomed.
Your personal qualities matter as much as your clinical expertise. You’ll bring kindness, patience and empathy, helping patients feel reassured, respected and involved in their care. We value colleagues who are approachable, dependable and generous with their knowledge, who listen to others and contribute to an open, supportive team.
Remote and rural practice calls for adaptability, initiative and a calm, thoughtful approach to competing demands. You’ll be confident making decisions within your competence, equally confident seeking advice, and willing to speak up for patient safety.
With curiosity, self-awareness and enthusiasm for learning, you’ll welcome feedback, support colleagues and students, and help improve our service. If you enjoy variety and want to grow professionally while making a difference to island healthcare, we’d like to hear from you.
If a disability affects your ability to drive, we will explore reasonable adjustments with you.
Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NHS Orkney.
Benefits and Salary
Did you know NHS Scotland salaries are higher than those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
The salary for this post is Band 6 and if residing on Orkney, you’ll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,719 pro rata per annum, adding extra value to your rewarding career with us.
NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, wide range of work life balance policies, employee assistance programme and various discounts to both local and national retailers.
Further Information
If you share our vision and are ready to be part of Team Orkney, we’d love to hear from you. Your rewarding career starts here!
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If there are additional requirements you would like to request, please contact ork.recruitment@nhs.scot
For further guidance on the recruitment process and tips for creating a strong application, please refer to our Candidate Application Pack.
To find out more about this opportunity please contact Nick Crohn, nick.crohn@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland check.
NHS Orkney is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies.
Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.
Please note this advert may close early if sufficient applications are received.
NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you’re new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.
Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We’re also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.
We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do – Open and honest, Respect and Kindness – from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.
About Orkney
With over 70 islands – 20 of them inhabited – Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it’s a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that’s both fulfilling and inspiring.
The Position
Join NHS Orkney as a Specialist Cross Sectional Radiographer and develop your career in a setting where your expertise, judgement and contribution have a direct impact on the community you serve. Based at The Balfour, you will be part of a small radiology team delivering essential imaging across planned, urgent and emergency care. The role combines general radiography with cross-sectional imaging, offering the opportunity to maintain a broad clinical skill set while developing your specialist practice.
Remote and rural radiography offers both professional challenge and considerable reward. You will encounter a varied workload, exercise clinical judgement and work closely with colleagues across hospital and community services. With no resident consultant radiologist, effective communication, sound decision-making and knowing when to seek specialist advice are central to the role. Support comes through the departmental leadership team and links with radiology colleagues in NHS Grampian, combining local professional autonomy with access to wider expertise.
This is an opportunity to contribute beyond the examination itself. You will help improve imaging pathways, participate in audit and quality improvement, and support the learning of colleagues and students. There is scope to build your confidence and capabilities through continuing professional development, with further training opportunities considered in line with your experience and service needs. Participation in the departmental on-call rota, currently approximately one in five, is an integral part of maintaining access to urgent imaging for our island population.
For patients, access to imaging locally can mean less travel, less disruption and care closer to home. For you, this role offers the chance to see the value of your work first-hand, develop breadth alongside specialist expertise, and help shape a responsive, sustainable radiology service. If you are looking for a role that will stretch your practice, strengthen your confidence and allow you to make a meaningful contribution to island healthcare, Orkney offers a rewarding next step.
The Candidate
We’re looking for a radiographer with a commitment to developing cross-sectional imaging skills. CT is essential and MRI experience would be welcomed.
Your personal qualities matter as much as your clinical expertise. You’ll bring kindness, patience and empathy, helping patients feel reassured, respected and involved in their care. We value colleagues who are approachable, dependable and generous with their knowledge, who listen to others and contribute to an open, supportive team.
Remote and rural practice calls for adaptability, initiative and a calm, thoughtful approach to competing demands. You’ll be confident making decisions within your competence, equally confident seeking advice, and willing to speak up for patient safety.
With curiosity, self-awareness and enthusiasm for learning, you’ll welcome feedback, support colleagues and students, and help improve our service. If you enjoy variety and want to grow professionally while making a difference to island healthcare, we’d like to hear from you.
If a disability affects your ability to drive, we will explore reasonable adjustments with you.
Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration
- This post will be based at The Balfour
- The successful candidate will work: Full Time 36 hours per week
- This post is Permanent
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NHS Orkney.
Benefits and Salary
Did you know NHS Scotland salaries are higher than those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
The salary for this post is Band 6 and if residing on Orkney, you’ll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,719 pro rata per annum, adding extra value to your rewarding career with us.
NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, wide range of work life balance policies, employee assistance programme and various discounts to both local and national retailers.
Further Information
If you share our vision and are ready to be part of Team Orkney, we’d love to hear from you. Your rewarding career starts here!
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If there are additional requirements you would like to request, please contact ork.recruitment@nhs.scot
For further guidance on the recruitment process and tips for creating a strong application, please refer to our Candidate Application Pack.
To find out more about this opportunity please contact Nick Crohn, nick.crohn@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland check.
NHS Orkney is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies.
Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.
Please note this advert may close early if sufficient applications are received.
