Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

NHS Band 7 Salary:  £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours Per Week:  Full time, 37.5 hrs

Contract Type:  Permanent

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Medical Photography Service Lead to lead our team in delivering a high-quality, patient-focused service. This is a pivotal leadership role, combining clinical expertise with strategic oversight to ensure the delivery of innovative and compliant medical photography services across the Trust.

You will manage a team of clinical photographers and administration staff, ensuring the provision of accurate, ethical, and timely visual documentation for clinical, educational and legal purposes.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide professional leadership, strategic direction and operational management for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Medical Photography Service.
• Ensure a safe, responsive, efficient and patient-centred clinical photography service that supports diagnosis, treatment planning, clinical records, safeguarding, education, audit and research.
• Lead service governance, workforce development, quality assurance, information governance, consent, image management and continuous improvement.
• Act as the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust’s specialist adviser on clinical photography and the capture, management, storage and lawful use of clinical images.
• Maintain professional clinical photography practice and undertake specialist clinical photography where required to support service resilience, complex cases, quality assurance and staff development.

Why Join Us?

• Lead a respected and forward-thinking department.
• Access to CPD, leadership training, and career progression opportunities.
• Be part of a supportive and collaborative NHS Trust.

Please refer to the Job description for further details.

Essential 

• Postgraduate clinical photography qualification or equivalent specialist knowledge gained through substantial training and experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Eligibility for, or current registration on, an appropriate accredited healthcare science register where applicable.

Desirable

• Management or leadership qualification.
• Postgraduate qualification at Master’s level or equivalent experience.
• Relevant degree in clinical photography, photography or a closely related discipline.

Experience

Essential 

• Substantial post-qualification experience in clinical or medical photography.
• Experience working at senior level with responsibility for specialist clinical photography standards.
• Line management or supervisory experience, including appraisal, development and performance management.
• Experience developing and implementing policies, procedures and standardised working practices.
• Experience of clinical image governance, consent, confidentiality, secure image management and data protection.
• Experience of audit, quality improvement, incident review and complaint handling.
• Experience managing competing priorities and delivering services within available resources.

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of budget management, business cases, procurement or contract management.
• Experience supporting research studies or clinical trials.
• Experience leading service redesign or digital change.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026

Smoke Free Policy: 

All of our hospitals operate a strict no smoking policy. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco products is not allowed on any of the grounds or in any of the buildings run by us. This applies to patients, staff, carers and visitors to Trust premises.

Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone we care for and, by making sure that our NHS services are smoke-free, we benefit the health of people who use our services as well as the health of the people who work for us.