Cleft Photography Team Leader | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The clinical photography service includes routine clinical photography and video records, both in the studio and on location, photography and video in clinical trials, photography and video of operative and post mortem procedures, gross specimens, personal injury photography and photography of stillbirths. The photography team is led by a Photography Production Manager, with senior photographers taking responsibility for the day-to-day deployment of specialist skills.

The East of England Cleft Network offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary service for cleft lip and cleft palate at both Addenbrooke's (the 'hub' of the Network) and local 'spoke' hospitals. The Cleft lip and palate (CL&P) ‘core’ team consists of plastic surgeons, maxillofacial surgeon, orthodontists, specialist nursing staff, specialist speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists, an audiologist, a paediatrician and a wider multi-disciplinary team, which includes radiographers, anaesthetists, ward staff, and clinical photographers. The clinical team are supported by numerous administrative and technical staff.

This is a specialist clinical photographer’s post that has special responsibility for working with the regional cleft lip and palate team. You will have a particular responsibility for supporting the Speech & Language Therapy service, nasendo¬scopy/ video fluoroscopy recordings and the ENT and Audiology services. Archiving of digital clinical records will be an important part of the role.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

You will be a part of the clinical photography team, which is part of the Media Studio, working alongside the clinical photographers and video editor, and undertaking the full range of clinical photography tasks. This will include clinical photography in the Medical Photography Studio, wards, operating theatres and other clinical areas of the Trust, ophthalmic imaging, public relations photography and video camera operation and recording. He/she will have particular responsibility for the cleft team’s image requirements and will have regular involvement in CL&P multidisciplinary meetings, providing standardised photography of pre-op and 5-year audit images for comparison at audit reviews; and provide support to the Image Technician who will implement and maintain robust storage, archiving and cataloguing systems for CL&P images, in conjunction with the CL&P team and relevant IT staff.

You will maintain and update protocols for CL&P photography and 3d imaging, liaising with clinical photographers at the ‘Spoke’ hospitals to ensure that they are aware of, and compliant with, the CL&P protocols – especially with regard to audit records.

You will be responsible on a day-to-day basis for the output of the team in terms of both quality and timely delivery of clinical photography and 3d imaging, providing advice and training as necessary: primarily at CUH but also at the spoke hospitals.

Within the clinical photography team each Team Leader is responsible for the supervision and training of Medical Photographers, ensuring that the total needs of the team they are working in are met. Under the direction of the Photography Production Manager and in liaison with the cleft team, the Team Leader for cleft lip & palate photography will ensure that the agreed level of service is met or exceeded.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
• or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 26th July 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 3rd August 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jul 2026