World Radiography Day: What is a Diagnostic Radiographer?

• Facilitator: Caroline Boot, Primary Schools Project Lead
• Presenter: Hayley Hartley, Schools Engagement Lead
• Guest Diagnostic Radiographer: TBC

Does your average primary schooler know who takes an x-ray? Is it a doctor? Is it a nurse? No, it’s a Radiographer.

Join us for a fun, engaging and age-appropriate event designed to spark interest and contribute to raising aspirations towards an exciting career opportunity that children might otherwise not be aware of. Find out how a radiographer can use different equipment to look inside a patient’s body to see if they are hurt or poorly. See how babies can hiccup or suck their thumb before they are even born.

During the live-stream event children will:

• Meet a jobholder
• Learn about X-ray and Ultrasound
• Have the opportunity to raise questions to the presenter
• Sing, dance and have fun

The event is hosted by the Society of Radiographers in collaboration with the Schools Team for NHS and Social Care Careers at South Yorkshire Integrated Care System.

As a memento all schools booking onto the event will receive a complimentary copy of the children’s book “Isaac Visits the Diagnostic Radiographers”.