Radiographer CV Examples & Writing Guide

This is a made-up person, but everything in it is written the way a real imaging department reads a CV: registration at the top, modalities named, numbers on the bullets. Copy the structure and swap in your own examinations, equipment and registration details.

Imaging departments recruit to fill a slot on a rota. The person reading your CV is usually the modality lead or the imaging services manager, and they are checking whether you can work without supervision and on which equipment.

• Registration status. HCPC registration, or the date your registration is expected if you are about to graduate. If your registration lapsed, do not hide it; put the date it was restored.
• Which modalities you actually run alone. General, mobiles, theatre C-arm, CT, MRI, mammography and fluoroscopy are different jobs. Name them, and say which ones you cover unsupervised.
• Volume and reject rate. Examinations per shift and reject rate tell them whether you will slow the list down. Even a rough monthly average beats no number.
• Shift and on-call availability. Nights, weekends, bank holidays and theatre on-call are the hardest slots to fill. If you will take them, say so in the personal statement.
• Equipment and PACS you know. Naming the manufacturer (GE, Siemens, Philips, Fujifilm, Canon) and your PACS shortens their training estimate.

“I can teach our protocols in two weeks. What I cannot teach in two weeks is comfort with a C-arm at 2am. If a CV says C-arm, theatre on-call, trauma and gives me a number of cases, that person goes to the top of the pile.”

Use a personal statement if you are registered and have clinical experience. Use a career objective only as a new graduate, and make it about the examinations you have logged, not about your ambitions. Three to four lines is plenty.

The mistake on most radiographer CVs is listing the job description of every radiographer in the country. Say what you ran, how many, and what changed because you were there.

Split your skills so a manager can scan them. Modalities first, then equipment and systems, then the human part of the job.

• General radiography: chest, extremity, spine, abdomen, skull, paediatric
• Mobile radiography, including side rooms and isolation
• Theatre fluoroscopy on mini and full-size C-arms
• CT: head, chest, abdomen/pelvis, CT angiography, stroke protocol, low-dose lung screening
• Trauma positioning and horizontal beam technique
• IV cannulation, contrast administration and reaction protocols
• Radiation protection under IR(ME)R, collimation and dose optimisation
• Equipment QA, warm-ups and daily logs

Equipment and software, named by manufacturer. This is the part ATS keyword filters actually match, and it tells the manager how long your induction will take.

• GE, Siemens, Philips, Canon and Fujifilm radiographic and CT units
• Digital radiography (DR) and computed radiography (CR)
• PACS (Sectra, Fujifilm Synapse, Philips Vue)
• RIS (such as CRIS) and examination reconciliation
• Electronic requesting through the hospital EPR (Epic, Cerner or similar)
• Dose monitoring software and exposure index tracking
• Contrast pump injectors
• Bone densitometry (DXA) if you run it

Soft skills only count here if you tie them to something imaging-specific. "Good communicator" means nothing. "Talks confused or non-verbal patients through positioning without sedation" means something.

• Positioning patients who cannot follow instructions (dementia, ventilated, paediatric)
• Working solo overnight without a supervisor on site
• Handing off cleanly at shift change with an accurate worklist
• Keeping the list moving when the emergency department sends four add-ons at once
• Teaching students without slowing the room down

Registration is the pass/fail part of the screen. Write it the way the register shows it, with the regulator named, and add the status. Never claim a registration or competency you do not hold yet; write the expected date instead.

What is usually required versus what is a bonus:

• Usually required: a BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography (or an approved pre-registration MSc or degree apprenticeship) and HCPC registration. Radiographer is a protected title in the UK, so you cannot work as one without being registered.
• Usually required: basic life support through annual mandatory training. Some emergency and CT roles also want immediate life support (ILS).
• Worth adding: postgraduate qualifications in CT, MRI, mammography, ultrasound or image reporting. Each one opens a different rota slot and often a higher band.
• Worth adding: IV cannulation and contrast competency, if your employer documented it.
• Under IR(ME)R, your employer records which exposures you are entitled to carry out. Do not claim an entitlement you do not hold, such as fluoroscopy or CT, and say plainly if training is in progress.

A new graduate is not a person with no experience. You finished your clinical placements. Those hours are the experience section, and your university already logs them for you.

1. 1Pull your clinical competency record or practice assessment document from the university. It shows which competencies you completed and in what areas.
2. 2Turn placements into a real experience entry: site type, dates, hours and what you did unsupervised by the end.
3. 3Give examination counts. "Approximately 900 examinations across chest, extremity, spine and abdomen" is a number a manager can use.
4. 4State your expected graduation date and HCPC registration status near the top, so nobody has to guess.
5. 5List the equipment you trained on by manufacturer, and the PACS you used. New graduates skip this and it costs them.
6. 6Add anything from before the course that shows you can handle patients and shift work: portering, healthcare assistant or ambulance care work, retail closing shifts.

• Two pages is the UK norm; one page is fine for a new graduate. Go beyond two only if you hold several postgraduate modality qualifications or have led a service.
• Reverse chronological. Imaging managers want to see where you are now and whether you have worked nights recently.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status on a UK CV. Some other countries expect them; UK employers do not.
• HCPC registration and main modality next to your name in the header. Full registration and qualification detail lower down.
• Say the setting next to the employer: 300-bed district general hospital, major trauma centre, independent sector imaging centre, community diagnostic centre. Volume and pace are implied by that one phrase.
• Put shift availability in the personal statement or a one-line "Availability" section if you will take nights, weekends or on-call.
• Save as PDF unless the advert asks for .docx, and keep it consistent with any NHS Jobs or Trac application form. Skip tables, columns and headers/footers, which many applicant tracking systems read badly.

For keywords, read the advert and mirror its exact words. NHS adverts write "diagnostic radiographer", "Band 5", "Band 6", "HCPC", "general radiography", "mobiles", "theatres", "CT", "PACS", "IR(ME)R", "cannulation" and "on-call rota". If you trained abroad as a radiologic technologist, put "Diagnostic Radiographer (HCPC)" in the header once you are registered and give your overseas title in the experience section. In the UK the document is a CV, not a US-style resume, and registration with the HCPC replaces any overseas registry credential.