Radiographer (Student)

Once you’ve confirmed your eligibility, the joining process is as follows:

• Submit an application
  Once you’ve registered your interest and have satisfied the basic eligibility criteria, you will be sent an online application form

• Defence Aptitude Assessment (DAA)
  You’ll be tested on: Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning, Work Rate, Spatial Reasoning, Electrical Comprehension and Mechanical Comprehension.
  To prepare, you can practise the DAA

• Interview
  A formal interview to talk through your suitability for the role

• Medical and eye tests
  These are quite comprehensive and must be completed by one of our Ministry of Defence-approved doctors

• Pre-Joining Fitness Test (PJFT)
  This involves completing a 2.4km run on a treadmill within a certain time, at a fitness centre near you

• Radiographer (Student) Assessment Board
  This is a 1 day board (arriving the day before) in Portsmouth where you will deliver a 10-minute presentation on a clinical subject, take part in a team working exercise and sit a 30-40 minute interview with the Nurse Education Advisor and Specialist Medical Recruitment Team.  

• Royal Navy Acquaint Course (RNAC)
  This four-day induction to life in the Royal Navy is a pass or fail course

• Start training
  Once you’ve passed a Security Check, you’ll be offered a place at HMS Raleigh before joining Birmingham City University to start your degree

Your Royal Navy career begins with 10 weeks’ basic training at HMS Raleigh, a shore base in Torpoint, Cornwall. The discipline, teamwork, organisational, firefighting and weapon handling skills you learn here will stay with you right through your career.

Aim to get yourself as fit as possible before you arrive. You’ll be doing a lot of physical exercise, and you’ll find it much easier if you’re already in shape.

There's also a swimming test, so if you can't swim, make sure you learn by the time you join us.

After you’ve qualified as a Radiographer you’ll join Joint Hospital Group (South West) in Plymouth or the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham as an Acting Leading Medical Technician Radiographer. You’ll spend at least a year there, working alongside other military radiographers and civilian counterparts. During this time, you’ll have access to CT scanning and will receive additional training on military specific equipment, and develop the skills you need to deploy as a military radiographer.

Once you’ve completed your mandatory competencies and relevant pre-deployment training you will be nominated to participate in medical exercises for clinical training and validation or be deployed around the globe on operations as required.