Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Physics
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (This is a 2 year part time post and can be offered as a secondment and/or job share.)
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-2012
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Tutor – London North Medical Physics Training Consortium
Band 8a
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
This is an excellent and exciting opportunity for a Clinical Scientist in any of the Medical Physics specialisms to widen their experience in a training role. The successful candidate (s) will develop and maintain a structured support system for STP Medical Physics trainees across the London North Medical Physics Training Consortium, supporting the Training Coordinator Co-ordinator, Training Officers, and supervising staff to create and maintain an effective learning environment and to support and develop Clinical Scientist trainees.
We would welcome interest in this role from those who may wish to job share. This position can be available as a secondment.
The London North Training Consortium is made up of five leading NHS Trusts:
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Barts Health NHS Trust
• UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Royal Free Hampstead NHS Foundation Trust
• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (Queen’s Hospital, Romford)
Main duties of the job
- Maintain and develop and a framework for the training of London North Medical Physics trainees.
- Arrange and run progression meetings with Clinical Scientist trainees. The post-holder will be responsible for assessing the progression through the scheme and will identify trainees who require additional support and trainees who are in difficulty.
- Provide support to Training Officers throughout the London North Medical Physics Consortium including taking responsibility for signing off competencies and assessments within the post-holder’s specialism and other general competencies on the on line portfolio.
- Monitor projects involving changes to practices and identify which changes should be made to improve the delivery of training.
- The post-holder will work in a busy clinical environment and is expected to observe high standards of professionalism and patient confidentiality at all times.
- The post-holder must be registered for a recognised programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and must ensure that their personal professional registration is maintained.
- Meet expected results by using own initiative and following general principles and applicable regulations, standards and guidelines.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- B.Sc. or equivalent in physics or related subject.
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Medical Physics or related area.
- Corporate Membership of the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (MIPEM).
- State registered as a clinical scientist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of the structure of the STP Training Scheme and assessments involved.
- Experience of supervising STP trainees.
- Experience of assessing STP trainees.
- Experience of Research and Development methodology, and writing scientific and technical reports.
- Good understanding of radiation protection legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines [e.g. Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR), Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IRMER), ISO9000, BSI, professional and regulatory body reports, etc.].
Desirable criteria
- Experience as national STP assessor.
- Experience of STP Curriculum writing.
- Experience as M.Sc. supervisor.
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess and analyse complex medical physics issues requiring analysis, comparison and interpretation.
- Ability to find solutions to complex, multi-factorial, problems and to use judgement on their likely clinical impact.
- Ability to plan an agreed range of complex medical physics activities which may directly impact on patient welfare.
- Ability to deal with occasional distressing circumstances.
- Ability to maintain clarity of purpose in a clinical environment within which there is constant emotional pressure.
- Ability to teach and train postgraduate level physics material.
- Ability to produce information from data, and to write or orally deliver this appropriately for the intended audience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Hardiman
- Job title
- Head of Radiation Physics and Training Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07823 445580
- Additional information
Neil Davis (current postholder) [email protected]
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