# Senior Clinical Photographer - Photography Led Dermatology Clinic Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-photographer-photography-led-dermatology-clinic-lead/d05ab5bd-e7f8-4d60-b33f-d5096fbd8632
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-photographer-photography-led-dermatology-clinic-lead/d05ab5bd-e7f8-4d60-b33f-d5096fbd8632.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- **Location:** New Cross Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical photographer
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent: The successful applicant will be required to participate in the on-call photography service.
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01T16:10:49.422Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Wolverhampton/The_Royal_Wolverhampton_NHS_Trust/Senior_Clinical_Photographer_Teledermatology/Senior_Clinical_Photographer_Teledermatology-v8253623
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8253623?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Job overview

- Responsible for the clinical photography undertaken for the Clinical Photography Led Dermatology Clinic service for the Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Hospital Trusts and when required, at any site where Clinical Photography services are provided by the Trusts.
- Ability to use location and studio lighting in a variety of photographic situations to accurately record a clinical condition is essential. Provide illustrative advice and recommendations to medical staff to ensure that clinical conditions are recorded using the most appropriate views / techniques to enable satisfactory assessment of such clinical conditions.
- Photography of all clinical conditions including specialist techniques such as wet dermoscopy using polarized and non-polarised patient contact techniques as well as non-contact dermoscopy. Cross lighting, mole mapping, UV and IR photography as required.

### Main duties of the job

- Responsible for the clinical photography undertaken for the Clinical Photographer Led Dermatology Clinic service for the Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Hospital Trusts and at any site where Clinical Photography services are provided by the Trusts.
- Accurately capture clinical and non-clinical stills and video images. Provide advice to users, as and when necessary, regarding illustration solutions.
- Use professional judgement and experience to interpret complex information from clinical request form, provide clinicians with high quality clinical photographs and videos for all specialist areas such as, Dermatology, Orthodontics, Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery. These images will be used for clinical assessment, patient records, teaching, publication and research.

Hold full professional membership of the Institute of Medical Illustrators and AHCS registration.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Hold full professional membership of the Institute of Medical Illustrators and AHCS registration.
- Continue to develop professional skills through appropriate training and development. Maintain an up-to-date CPD portfolio to satisfy the requirements of the Institute of Medical Illustrators. This is a mandatory requirement to maintain continued CAMIP Registration.
- Photography of all clinical conditions including specialist techniques such as wet dermoscopy using polarized and non-polarised patient contact techniques as well as non-contact dermoscopy. Cross lighting, mole mapping, UV and IR photography as required.
- Use of a variety of DSLR equipment and mobile devices, risks, consent, storage, data protection, patient positioning, infection control, backgrounds, lighting, camera settings, dermoscopy, labelling, choice technique to image different conditions.
- Use of specialist equipment – invasive and noninvasive.
- Accurately capture stills and video images of clinical conditions and non-clinical requests. Provide advice to users, as and when necessary, regarding illustration solutions.
- Post capture processing of images using specialised software for image manipulation, page layout and digital asset management. This will include; page layout of templates, colour correction, cropping, exposure etc and uploading onto the Clinical Web Portal.
- Knowledge of the standard view requirements for clinical photography in specialised areas through an extensive understanding of anatomy, physiology and medical terminology.
- Ability to use location and studio lighting in a variety of photographic situations to accurately record a clinical condition is essential. Provide illustrative advice and recommendations to medical staff to ensure that clinical conditions are recorded using the most appropriate views / techniques so enabling satisfactory assessment of such clinical conditions.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Essential

**Essential**

- BSc in Medical Illustration, or a Degree or HND in Photography together with Graduate Certificate in Clinical Photography
- Must have attained level of education to include GCSE English Language, Mathematics and a science or art subject.
- Evidence of recent CPD of ongoing professional training required to maintain up to date skills.

**Desirable**

- City & Guilds Certificate in Diabetic Retinal Screening
- Registered Medical Illustration Practitioner \[RMIP\] AHCS registered
- Full professional membership of Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI)

### Professional Registration

**Essential**

- Be able to demonstrate a wide range of experience in both clinical and non clinical illustration / photography techniques
- Detailed knowledge of legislation pertaining to clinical photography, in particular consent, copyright, data protection and NHS corporate ID
- Experience in managing staff.
- Advanced knowledge of digital imaging capture, manipulation and output.
- Interpret clinical request forms and use appropriate views to illustrate the condition
- Experience of video capture and processing and output using digital non-linear editing systems

**Desirable**

- Detailed knowledge and applied skills of clinical illustration including dermatology, intra-oral, and Fundus photography.

## Documents

- [wolverhampton map (pdf, 600.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2032)
- [flexible working commitment (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2380)
- [rwt professional standards (pdf, 95.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3048)
- [employee rewards booklet v.15 (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2083)
- [rwt health & wellbeing offer (pdf, 945.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3027)
- [joint behavioural framework v1. 2024 (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2858)
- [nhs staff offer - national express (pdf, 963.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2612)
- [job description and personal specification (pdf, 616.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661701)
- [using ai when completing application forms (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2969)
- [transforming care together strategy 2026-2031 v4 (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2618)

## Agent Notes

- This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page.
- Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.
- Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.