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At The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), we’re the leading professional membership body for clinical radiologists and clinical oncologists and a registered charity who educate and support doctors throughout their career. With over 15,000 members in the UK and internationally, together we’re contributing to the advancement of each new generation of doctors and helping to improve patients’ lives.

We require a broad range of skills and experience to deliver our strategic goal of increasing the clinical radiology and clinical oncology workforce, which will ultimately lead to improving imaging and cancer care services for all.

If you’re inspired by our strategy and values, and are passionate about helping us meet our ambitious goals in an environment that celebrates differences, values diversity and recognises that everyone here plays a role in the success of the College, then we encourage you to consider a career at the RCR.

No matter what profession you are in, your background or stage of your career, we offer exciting career opportunities – ranging from building management to policy development, exam delivery, marketing, finance, global development and lots more. See our current vacancies to find out more.

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Benefits of working at the RCR

Working for an organisation that strives to improve imaging and cancer care for all is not the only benefit on offer at The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR). We offer all our employees a fantastic range of benefits to help you enjoy a great work-life balance, look after your wellbeing and plan for the future.

A modern and welcoming working environment

We’ve made sure our office in a prime central London location is a destination people want to come and work in – it’s open-plan and spacious, with areas for meetings, collaborative working and concentrated workspaces. We also have kitchen facilities well-stocked with a plethora of teas and two very fancy coffee machines for everyone to use.

There are lots of things going on when you come in too, including learning and development sessions with doctors talking about their work, tea and cake get-togethers, free massages monthly and monthly town hall meetings where staff can share updates and ask questions. We even have our own social committee and organise regular fun events, which are a great way for you to get to know your co-workers.

Excellent pension scheme and life assurance

We like to help our staff save for the future and provide an excellent pension scheme to help with this. We also have a life assurance and personal accident policy which covers all employees up to four times their annual salary.

Hybrid working

At the RCR we only hire great people, and we value being able to bring everyone together to bond, build great working relationships and generate amazing and innovative ideas.

We embrace remote working, and our staff are able to work remotely for up to 60% of their working time, with 40% in the office. All staff are provided with a laptop to allow them to work remotely, along with equipment such as desks and chairs to make sure they’re comfortable when working from home. Our offices are open throughout the working week though, and staff are always welcome to come in as often as they wish.

Wellbeing support

We like to make sure everyone at the RCR is supported, both professionally and personally, so in addition to our excellent line managers and supportive HR team, we’ve invested in training a number of dedicated staff members passionate about mental health as Mental Health First Aiders. We also provide an Employee Assistance Programme, that has a 24/7 helpline so if you ever have any personal problems or concerns, there’s always somewhere to turn for help and advice.

Generous annual leave allowance

Working hard is important, but taking a break matters just as much. Everyone starts with a 25-day annual leave allowance per year and that increases with service too.

Interest-free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme

To make sure you’re able to get into the office in the way that best suits you we offer all staff the option to take out an interest-free season ticket loan to help cover the cost of travelling, as well as a cycle to work scheme for those of us who like to be more active on our commute. If you do choose to cycle in, we have somewhere safe to leave your bike and showers to use if you want to freshen up before work.

Festive spirit

We know taking a break at the end of the year is important to our team. To ensure everyone gets a well-deserved rest to spend time with loved ones, we usually close our office between the Christmas and New Year period – gifting the extra days off to all staff, in addition to their usual annual leave.

Making a real difference

In addition to all the great benefits we’ve listed above, we believe the main reason people want to join the RCR is because you also get to go to work knowing your role has an impact on the lives of doctors and patients.

Exciting learning and development opportunities

At The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), we value learning and development in the workplace. Not only do we offer all our staff a variety of opportunities to learn and develop new skills, but our staff are also encouraged to reflect on what their needs are to allow us all to consistently deliver great work and to stretch and challenge ourselves every day.

We recognise that at any stage of your career having access to resources to help your development is important to help you grow in confidence and enhance your skillset.

We also know that not everyone learns in the same way, which is why we provide a range of learning resources, including job specific training and peer to peer learning.

Job specific training

Throughout our annual PDR process, not only will you have developmental conversations, but you’ll have the opportunity to create specific objectives based on the things that will enable you to perform to your best in your role.

We encourage professional development among all our staff and these objectives will be supported with individually selected training courses to help you unlock your potential.

Peer to peer learning

We’ve always been focused on employing talented people to help drive our organisation forward – and it’s because of this that they help us achieve great things.

Working here allows you to get involved in interesting discussions, challenge your thinking and learn from all of the people you meet – and you might even teach everyone else a thing or two!

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

It’s our fundamental belief that we should all be able to be ourselves at work and that no one should experience discrimination or exclusion while doing their job.

We are committed to creating and sharing a whole host of resources and training to help everyone increase their understanding of EDI. This helps us all to be considerate colleagues, and to celebrate the complete range of differences we have, which we believe make our organisation so great.

Promoting our purpose

By educating and supporting our members throughout their careers our work contributes to the advancement of each new generation of doctors and helps to improve patients’ lives. We like to remind ourselves of that at every opportunity, and if you join the RCR team, you’ll get to learn a lot about our specialties of oncology and radiology from some of the best cancer care and imaging doctors worldwide.

We also host regular learning sessions, where doctors and other professionals working in medical imaging (such as X-rays and MRIs) and cancer care come and join us to share their work. These sessions help us to understand more about their day jobs and the impact our members have on patient care.

“The RCR offers lots of learning and development opportunities and we are encouraged to reflect on what our needs are to best allow us to deliver in our roles and to stretch ourselves.”

Employment partnerships

We are a Living Wage employer and proud partners of Change 100 and Charityworks.

We pay our employees and contractors the London Living Wage because we believe it is the right thing to do. We see it as a long-term investment in our people, ensuring their salary reflects the cost of living and working in the capital. The London Living Wage reinforces our belief that a team with good compensation and working conditions is in the best position to provide an excellent experience for our Fellows, members and colleagues.

Charityworks placements at the RCR

Through our partnership with the Charityworks programme, we help to cultivate the future leaders of the not-for-profit sector by offering 12-month full-time graduate work placements.

As part of this, participants enrol in a leadership programme and receive mentoring and peer coaching.

Our Charityworks trainees have been placed in a variety of roles, ranging from external communications and human resources to policy and academic research and professional learning and development.

Visit the Charityworks website to find out more about the Charityworks progamme.

Change 100 internships at the RCR

We work to promote diversity and inclusion at the RCR and are proud partners of the Change 100 programme.

The Change 100 programme supports graduates with disabilities and long-term health conditions by providing opportunities for professional growth and career development.

The programme is run by Leonard Cheshire, a chairity that supports disabled people and works with organisations to adopt inclusive practices.

The RCR has worked with Change 100 interns during paid placements lasting between 8 and 12 weeks. Participating in the programme has helped us to improve our awareness and understanding of disability as an employer, and promote an inclusive working environment.

Visit the Leonard Cheshire website to find out more about Change 100 internships.

Our commitment to equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI)

About us

We are The Royal College of Radiologists – the leading professional membership body for clinical radiologists and clinical oncologists, supporting doctors throughout their career so that they can make a real difference.

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