Appointability, preferencing and offers

Below is a summary of post interview processes.

Preferencing

You will be able to preference posts between the preference opening and closing dates see timeline for dates.

After the first iteration of offers are made, preferencing will reopen between offer iterations, in light of enhanced preferencing.

For full guidance on preferencing, please refer to to the Medical Specialty Recruitment pages.

Appointability

Appointability will be determined using the interview scores, though please note that the portfolio review scores will not be counted when determining appointability.

The appointable criteria will be as follows a minimum score of 48 overall, with at least a score of 22 on both stations.

No scores of a 1. A combined unweighted score of 6/10 or more for clinical prioritisation question.

Appointability will be determined using peer reference initially, and should we not find enough candidates appointable at this stage, we will be using a criteria based reference.

Ranking

The overall score used for ranking and offers will be as detailed below:

• 40% of total score will be Portfolio score
• 60% of total score will be Interview 
• Where ranks are tied, tie breakers will be used

Offers

Offers will be made to those successful applicants deemed appointable that have ‘matched’ to a post and will be based on your rank and preference rank.

Offers will be made via Oriel by Tuesday 24 March 2026 no later than 4pm.

Following initial offers being released, further offers will be made in subsequent iterations.

You have 48 hours from the time of offer (excluding weekends) to confirm via Oriel whether you wish to accept, reject or hold your offer. Offers made after the hold deadline will only have the option to accept or reject.

Until the upgrade deadline we will provide information about the lowest rank receiving an offer. This is to assist candidates deciding between two specialties determine if they are likely to receive an offer.

References

References are automatically requested when an offer has been accepted. Please note that late references (after the papework deadline) will need to be sent directly to the trust.

Scoresheet release

Scoresheets will be released to all applicants on a specified date and so you do not need to request your scoresheets after interview.

Allocation

Once you have accepted a Clinical Radiology post, your information will be passed to their relevant region who will contact you directly to complete the allocation process.

Deferral

Further information on how to request a deferred start date or training Less Than Full Time (LTFT) can be found on the Medical Specialty Recruitment pages.

Next steps/roles and responsibilities

Your details will be passed on to the local training programme director around 14 weeks prior to your start date and to the first trust you have been appointed to 12 weeks prior to your start date. Therefore, you should not expect to receive any communication prior to this time.