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HR Officer job vacancy

Are you looking for a HR Officer role where your ideas matter, your expertise is valued, and your work genuinely contributes to something bigger? At the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), we’re expanding our HR team and you could be at the heart of that growth.

Job details

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 29 March 2026. First stage interviews are due to take place on 1 April 2026 with final stage interviews scheduled for 8 April 2026.

Salary£45,904 per annum, with pay progression up to £50,735 per annum within two years continuous employment dependent on performance, plus excellent benefits
LocationCentral London with flexible working
HoursFull-time/35 hours per week
Contractual statusPermanent

As our new HR Officer, you’ll join a dedicated, ambitious and friendly team soon to be five strong. We may be small, but our aspirations are anything but and we challenge ourselves to deliver excellence in everything we do.

In this role, you’ll work closely with managers across the organisation, building trusted relationships and helping us manage our most important asset: our people. You’ll take on a broad portfolio from employee relations and policy development to payroll, recruitment support, and organisational development projects. And importantly, you’ll have real scope to innovate, influence improvements and challenge the status quo.

The RCR is a unique organisation: part membership body, part charity, and deeply connected to our community of members doctors across the UK who volunteer their time as Contributors. We’ve grown rapidly over the past five years, and with bold plans ahead, there’s never been a more exciting time to be part of our journey.

What you’ll do:

Operational HR Delivery

  • Providing professional advice on HR policies, performance, grievance and disciplinary matters
  • Keeping our HR systems and employee records accurate and up to date
  • Designing and delivering key HR processes, including objective setting, pay letters and contract changes
  • Managing the monthly payroll process accurately and confidently
  • Supporting diversity & inclusion, wellbeing, learning and development initiatives

Partnering & Employee Relations

  • Coaching and supporting managers across the business
  • Supporting employee relations cases professionally and sensitively
  • Building trusted relationships with teams to stay close to people priorities

Projects & Reporting

  • Producing HR metrics and reports to help shape decision making
  • Managing elements of our culture, change and organisational development projects
  • Coordinating staff surveys and our Manager 360 Feedback programme

Recruitment & Onboarding

  • Supporting the full recruitment cycle — adverts, screening, interviews and offers
  • Ensuring new starters receive a warm, well-planned induction

What you’ll need:

  • A confident HR practitioner with Level 3 CIPD (or equivalent experience)
  • Skilled at advising managers and building strong professional relationships
  • Analytical, detail-focused and comfortable working with both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Ability to balance competing priorities and use your initiative
  • A collaborative team player who takes pride in doing things well
  • Passionate about great employee experience and committed to confidentiality, equality and continuous learning

With around 140 talented staff and an ever-evolving organisational landscape, we’re passionate about creating an exceptional place to work. Everything we do supports a clear purpose we’re proud of: to improve imaging and cancer care for all.

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How to apply

To find out more about any of the vacancies advertised, please download the candidate pack for the post you are interested in. Complete the diversity monitoring form and send a CV and covering letter to by the stated closing date, explaining concisely how you match the requirements of the role.

Alternatively, you can send your application by post to arrive by the closing date. Please address your application to:

HR Manager
The Royal College of Radiologists
63 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3JW

All applications will be acknowledged, but if you have not heard from us again within a fortnight of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted for interview on this occasion. Unfortunately we are unable to respond to general enquiries about employment opportunities. Each vacancy is advertised on this website as well as through other recruitment methods.

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We reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive sufficient applications. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible