Job overview
As a Clinical Photographer, you will be providing a high-quality photographic service for one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. You will work as part of a progressive, collaborative team providing standardised clinical photographs for medical records, teaching and publication.
In addition, you will provide corporate and public relations photographs for the Trusts Communications Team that can appear on the Trust’s social media channels, the BBC, Oxford Mail and beyond.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. OMI primarily cover the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre which are within walking distance of each other.
As part of the application process, you are required to email pdfs of your best work (or a link to your online portfolio) to k We are looking to see an up-to-date folio with a wide range of photographic skills that show attention to detail, technical expertise and a variety of lighting techniques.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Photographers provide comprehensive, standardised high quality clinical photographs which form as part of patients’ medical records, (and with consent) teaching and publication.
Day to day, Clinical Photographers work either from a dedicated clinical photography studio, on the wards, in surgical theatre or outpatient clinics. No two days are the same.
Clinical Photographers photograph a range of clinical subjects such as (but not limited to):
1. Dermatological conditions
2. Chronic wounds
3. Non-accidental injuries / safeguarding enquiries
4. Dental / facial reconstructions
5. Photographs during surgical procedures
6. Pre and post operative surgery
Clinical Photographers at Oxford Medical Illustration also provide high quality public relation images for the Trusts communications team and external partners such as:
7. Corporate events
8. Award ceremonies
9. Staff Portraits
10. Good news stories
11. Recruitment campaigns
12. Stock imagery for the design team
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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