The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

MRI Senior Radiographer

The closing date is 24 September 2025

Job summary

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust has an exciting opportunity for a MRI Senior Radiographer to fulfil a key role within our busy MRI department.

This role requires excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with a focus on continuous self-improvement and helping others. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate evidence of good MRI radiographic experience and evidence of participating in out-of-hours radiography service. You will have good team membership skills and the ability to act diplomatically in sensitive situations involving patients or staff. There is a need to be punctual and to demonstrate outstanding time management skills.

We are a multi-site trust and as part of your role you will be required to work across any site (including Pinderfields, Pontefract, Dewsbury and Wakefield CDC) within the Trust. We offer a regular staff shuttle service between all 3 sites for staff convenience and ease.

The Trust has recently built a new unit, specifically for the MRI department, housing a new 3T scanner to compliment our Siemens Aera and three Philips Ambition scanners all equipped with Smartspeed AI.

The Mid Yorkshire Trust has excellent travel links to Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and Bradford. We are close to both the M1 and the M62. If you would like to attend for an informal chat or a look round, please contact a MRI Team Leader on extension 01924 541570 or 01924 542922.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the MRI team responsible for producing high quality MRI images within the Radiology Service

To perform a comprehensive range of MRI procedures Trust wide.

To contribute towards the efficient deployment of resources, enabling the patient to receive a safe, accurate and timely examination

To assist in co-ordinating workflow demands within the MRI departments across the Trust

To contribute towards finding solutions which will meet the rapidly changing demands on the radiology service

To contribute to training/tutorial opportunities within the MRI Department.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

12 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

000655

Job locations

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

To ensure imaging procedures are carried out in accordance with mandatory departmental systems of work and protocols.
To adapt technique to the condition of the patient and level of co-operation, consistent with a good diagnostic outcome/optimum image quality.
To assess each patient and request to produce the correct course of action for examination and diagnosis.
To actively develop high standards of patient care ensuring Trust policies and protocols are widely communicated and are implemented e.g., infection control.
To play an active role in the implementation and development of quality assurance programmes including departmental audit.
To undertake additional areas of responsibility as delegated by the Team Leader.
Maintain a professional appearance in line with the Trust dress code
Uphold the Trust’s values and behaviours (available on the Trust web site) and behave in a manner fitting with the responsible position of the post holder, maintaining the public confidence
Maintain professional and courteous working relationships with staff and respect the equality and diversity of each and every person he/she comes into contact within the course of his/her business
Uphold the privacy and dignity of the patient and respect the equality of patients at all time

**PLEASE SEE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR MORE INFORMATION**

Job description

Job responsibilities

To ensure imaging procedures are carried out in accordance with mandatory departmental systems of work and protocols.
To adapt technique to the condition of the patient and level of co-operation, consistent with a good diagnostic outcome/optimum image quality.
To assess each patient and request to produce the correct course of action for examination and diagnosis.
To actively develop high standards of patient care ensuring Trust policies and protocols are widely communicated and are implemented e.g., infection control.
To play an active role in the implementation and development of quality assurance programmes including departmental audit.
To undertake additional areas of responsibility as delegated by the Team Leader.
Maintain a professional appearance in line with the Trust dress code
Uphold the Trust’s values and behaviours (available on the Trust web site) and behave in a manner fitting with the responsible position of the post holder, maintaining the public confidence
Maintain professional and courteous working relationships with staff and respect the equality and diversity of each and every person he/she comes into contact within the course of his/her business
Uphold the privacy and dignity of the patient and respect the equality of patients at all time

**PLEASE SEE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR MORE INFORMATION**

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.