HR Officer

Royal College of Radiologists

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is the leading professional membership body for clinical radiologists and clinical oncologists, and a registered charity that educates and supports doctors throughout their careers. With over 14,000 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 recognizes that everyone here plays a role in the success of the College, then we encourage you to consider a career at the RCR.

About the role

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 member 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.

Responsibilities

Operational HR Delivery:

• Take forward organisational development activities under the guidance of the Head of HR, introducing agreed initiatives to prepare employees and managers to succeed in the delivery of RCR plans and priorities.
• Manage the monthly payroll process, ensuring it is accurate, reporting errors or queries to the payroll providers, and authorising the final pay run.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff and managers on RCR HR policies and procedures, including complex/ sensitive matters such as performance management, discipline, and grievance, checking with and reporting back to the Head of HR as appropriate.
• Evaluate posts using the RCR’s job evaluation system and organise meetings of the job evaluation group, chairing the group in the absence of the Head of HR.
• Contribute to HR policy development, ensuring policies are up to date with employment law, appropriate to the needs of the RCR, and written in RCR branding style.
• Shared responsibility within the team for conducting exit interviews and other tasks associated with leavers, reporting on trends, and making recommendations.
• In carrying out day-to-day work, ensure that any issues in the application of policies or procedures or in feedback from employees are raised with the HR team in order to identify if any changes or developments are needed.
• Contribute to the accurate maintenance of all HR, personnel, and training records, liaising with individual employees as necessary.
• Lead and support administrative processes such as creating annual pay letters and contract amendments.
• Contribute to and manage specified HR related initiatives, including diversity and inclusion (D&I), learning and development (L&D), and well-being.
• Assist the Head of HR as required in research on the external pay market.
• Manage the delivery of staff surveys, including preparing data for analysis and producing timely reports and analysis on the results to various management and staff groups
• Plan, coordinate, and communicate the annual Manager 360 Feedback process, collating the data related to this process and producing individualised reports and summary reports to SMT.
• Manage the College’s objective setting and professional development processes, including maintaining the online system and preparing progress reports for boards and committees.
• Deputise for and assist the Recruitment and HR Coordinator when needed, managing the RCR’s recruitment process, including creating the candidate pack, advertising, undertaking proactive candidate search, collating applications received, diversity monitoring, supporting shortlisting, interview arrangements, references, offer letters, and recording recruitment data.
• Participate in recruitment activity, such as shortlisting and selection interviews.
• Deputise for the Recruitment and HR Coordinator when needed with the onboarding of new staff, including agreeing start dates, planning induction activities, and working with teams within the Directorate of Business and Resources to ensure new staff have the equipment they need.
• Assist with the administration of the HR information and applicant tracking systems, ensuring all records are accurate.
• Support the Recruitment and HR Coordinator as required with compiling and reviewing development and training requests within the organisation, collating the learning and development needs for staff, and creating RCR-wide training plans.

Partnering with Managers & Employee Relations Support:

• Provide sound professional advice across the whole range of HR issues, referring more complex cases to the Head of HR for guidance.
• Coach, support, and empower managers to find solutions and implement best practice people management interventions.
• Provide dedicated HR support for employee relations cases, such as compiling documentation, note-taking, and advising involved parties on HR policy and procedures.
• Support a culture of customer care and service excellence.
• Partner with allocated operations managers across the business to keep abreast of developments within their teams and support them to deal with people issues as they arise, reporting findings to the Head of HR.
• Create and deliver informative, engaging management resources, such as HR Essentials workshops, and develop management guidance material.

Delivery of HR Projects and Reporting:

• Manage the delivery of specified HR projects, discussing and agreeing plans with the Head of HR and ensuring they support the achievement of our people strategy and wider organisational objectives.
• Assist with the delivery of various HR projects (for example, the culture project)
• Assist the Head of HR in overseeing organisational development and change within the organisation, including restructures and legal consultations.
• Produce and contribute to a wide variety of HR reports and metrics, such as EDI and Leavers reports, making recommendations to management to drive new initiatives and policies to improve the RCR employee experience

General:

• Contribute to reviewing processes and procedures to ensure the work of the HR team is professional, efficient, and customer-focused.
• Maintain and manage records in accordance with the RCR’s data protection policy and guidance.
• Maintain documentation on all activities carried out.
• Undertake such other duties appropriate to the level of the postholder’s qualifications and experience as may be required by the RCR from time to time.

Internal Working Relationships:

• Head of HR-reporting to
• HR team is working closely with
• Chief Executive - providing information and advice
• Other members of SMT, line managers and other RCR employees - providing information and advice

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience:

• Knowledge of the range of HR and L&D areas and a full understanding of how they contribute to business success
• Significant practical experience working in an HR department in an advising role. Experience in establishing and maintaining ongoing relationships with managers is beneficial.

Skills & Abilities:

• Accurate use and understanding of English.
• An analytical thinker, able to interpret and report on qualitative and quantitative data and make clear business recommendations.
• A confident and credible individual, able to establish and maintain working relationships, gaining the respect of managers when giving advice
• Ability to prioritise work to competing demands and meet deadlines
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-starter, confident to initiate and progress work, knowing when to consult or involve others
• Ability to work effectively within the team to manage tasks and projects.
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to support and get on with a very wide range of individuals
• Willingness to undertake routine administrative tasks.
• Commitment to working with absolute discretion and confidentiality in respect of HR issues as they affect individual College employees.
• Enthusiasm for learning and development, and taking on new tasks
• Demonstrable commitment to providing a professional customer service to colleagues, members and stakeholders.

Other Requirements:

• Commitment to equality and valuing diversity, and understanding of how this applies to the delivery of one's own area of work
• Commitment to the aims and charitable objectives of the RCR
• Self awareness
• Enthusiasm for learning and development, and taking on new tasks
• Committed to own continuing professional development.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of Level 3 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience, with a good standard of literacy and numeracy.

Compensation & Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• Excellent Pension Scheme
• Interest-Free Season Ticket loan 
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Conditions of employment

• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely

How to apply

• Please send an email to [email protected] with your CV and a 1-page cover letter, your Full Name, Role, and a completed Diversity Monitoring Form.
• If you consider yourself to have a disability and require a hard copy pack or a different format, for example, large print, please contact the HR team at [email protected]

Interviews

• Shortlist interviews are scheduled for 1st April 2026, and 18th selection interviews are scheduled for 8th April 2026.

Policies

Diversity means better ideas, better solutions, and more innovation. That’s why one of our key priorities is ensuring our workforce reflects our communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce and working environment for us all to enjoy, where everyone can bring their whole self to work to create change and reach new heights of creativity.

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