Medical Photographer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
Join the Media Studio's photography team as a part-time Medical Photographer, producing high-quality medical and ophthalmic photography for the Trust and its partners. The role involves clinical and ophthalmic photography, requiring proficiency in photographic equipment and image processing software. You will work as part of a team on the Addenbrooke's site, covering various clinical photography needs. The department provides a comprehensive medical illustration service in a dynamic environment.
Essential criteria
- Degree in Photography or equivalent or BSc or MSc in Medical photography/ Medical Illustration.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD activity.
- Graduate or postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, IMI PEC, or equivalent.
- Registered as a Medical illustration practitioner with AHCS.
- Clinical photography: studio, teledermatology, ward, operating theatre.
- General (non-clinical) professional photography.
- Clinical photography experience.
- Ophthalmic photography experience.
- Photographic principles, e.g. colour management, image manipulation, understanding of lighting principles and relevant photographic theory.
- Anatomy, physiology, medical terminology to an appropriate level.
- An understanding of basic anatomy.
- Image databases and their applications.
- Competent clinical photographer.
- Good, professional communication with patients, public and staff.
- Image processing skills - e.g. Adobe Photoshop - to a professional level.
- Additional software skills; e.g. MS Office.
- Additional Requirements
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Resilient to stressful sights, smells and experiences of the clinical environment.
- Good colour vision.
- Ability to bend to floor level, work at moderate heights (stepladder) and lift weights of up to 7kg.
- Good eyesight (with spectacles, if worn).
- Flexible in terms of occasional out-of-hours working.
- Degree in Photography or equivalent or BSc or MSc in Medical photography/ Medical Illustration.
- Evidence of CPD activity.
- Graduate or postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, IMI PEC, or equivalent.
- Registered as a Medical illustration practitioner with AHCS.
- Clinical photography: studio, teledermatology, ward, operating theatre.
- General (non-clinical) professional photography.
- Clinical photography experience.
- Ophthalmic photography experience.
- Photographic principles, e.g. colour management, image manipulation, understanding of lighting principles and relevant photographic theory.
- Anatomy, physiology, medical terminology to an appropriate level.
- An understanding of basic anatomy.
- Image databases and their applications.
- Competent clinical photographer.
- Good, professional communication with patients, public and staff.
- Image processing skills - e.g. Adobe Photoshop - to a professional level.
- Additional software skills; e.g. MS Office.
- Additional Requirements
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Resilient to stressful sights, smells and experiences of the clinical environment.
- Good colour vision.
- Ability to bend to floor level, work at moderate heights (stepladder) and lift weights of up to 7kg.
- Good eyesight (with spectacles, if worn).
- Flexible in terms of occasional out-of-hours working.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Photographer
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a part time Medical Photographer to join our Media Studio's photography team, producing high quality medical and ophthalmic photography for the Trust and its partner organisations on the Biomedical Campus.
Media Studio is a modern department providing a comprehensive medical illustration service in a dynamic and expanding environment.
The clinical photography team photographs a large number of patients in our studios, and in wards and departments in the hospital and off the site. Media Studio also provides video production, graphic design and print services in a friendly, collaborative and productive environment.
Main duties of the job
Duties primarily are clinical and ophthalmic photography. You will ideally have a degree in clinical photography or equivalent qualification and/ or experience, be proficient in the use of current photographic equipment and image processing software, and be able to demonstrate good photographic skills and a high degree of attention to detail. You will be expected to work as part of a team of photographers on the Addenbrooke's site covering clinical and ophthalmic photography.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospi
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