Radiology Team Lead

Job summary

This is a dynamic, hands-on leadership position, combining clinical expertise with operational oversight. You'll spend approximately 60% of your time delivering high-quality patient care across modalities, with the remaining time focused on leading your team, improving services, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.

Main duties of the job

This is a dynamic, hands-on leadership position, combining clinical expertise with operational oversight. You'll spend approximately 60% of your time delivering high-quality patient care across modalities, with the remaining time focused on leading your team, improving services, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.

About us

Spire Dunedin Hospital has been serving the Reading community for over 100 years, as a first-class medical facility. Based in the heart of Reading, the hospital has two theatres, 16 inpatient beds, three recovery bays, Oncology services and an Endoscopy Suite.

Details

• Date posted: 12 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: Depending on experience
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 27493
• Job locations: Bath Road, Reading, RG1 6NS, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Radiology Team Lead | CT, MRI or Xray| Dunedin, Reading | Market Competitive salary -DOE | Full time- 37.5 hours per week

Spire Dunedin Hospital is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Radiographer to step into a Team Lead role, driving excellence across CT, MRI, X-ray and theatre imaging services.

This is a dynamic, hands-on leadership position, combining clinical expertise with operational oversight. Youll spend approximately 60% of your time delivering high-quality patient care across modalities, with the remaining time focused on leading your team, improving services, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.

Why this role stands out:

• Work across multiple imaging modalities in a diverse clinical environment
• Take on a key leadership role with real impact on service delivery
• Maintain strong clinical involvement, keeping your skills at the forefront
• Join a supportive, forward-thinking hospital team

Spire Dunedin Hospital has been serving the Reading community for over 100 years, as a first-class medical facility. Based in the heart of Reading, the hospital has two theatres, 16 inpatient beds, three recovery bays, Oncology services and an Endoscopy Suite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the overall management and performance of the imaging department across all modalities
• Deputise for the Imaging Manager, taking responsibility for operational delivery when required
• Lead, manage, and develop radiographers and support staff
• Monitor performance, address issues, and support a consistent, high-quality service
• Oversee compliance, governance, audit, and quality assurance processes
• Contribute to service planning, workforce management, and continuous improvement initiatives

What Were Looking For:

• HCPC-registered Radiographer with strong experience in CT, MRI, X-ray and theatre imaging services
• Broader exposure to general X-ray, theatre imaging and/or mammography
• Proven experience supporting or leading teams within an imaging environment
• Strong organisational, communication, and people management skills
• Confidence to deputise and support operational decision-making

Desirable:

• Previous supervisory or management experience
• Experience within private healthcare
• Involvement in audit, governance, or service development

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• Spire for you reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance

Our Values:

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, its their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.