Job summary
- Main area
- Nuclear Medicine Physics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7270680-CA-A
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. George's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum Including Inner london HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nuclear Medicine Physicist
Band 7
Job overview
‘An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Nuclear Medicine Physicist to join a dynamic team providing physics support to St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Nuclear Medicine department has two Siemens Intevo SPECT/CTs, one Siemens Symbia SPECT, two gamma counters and multiple gamma probes. A radioiodine therapy service is managed and delivered by Physics, additionally support to external departments and support to a fleet of PET/CT mobiles. The department is an avid supporter of STP training and you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to training. The role would suit a recent STP graduate, those nearing completion or those imminently due to obtain HCPC registration via alternative routes.
Main duties of the job
This post holder works as part of a team providing Medical Physics support to the Nuclear Medicine Department as part of the Nuclear Medicine Physics Group. The postholder provides specialised clinical scientific and technical services and computing support to diagnostic and therapy services in the Nuclear Medicine Department. Direct patient contact is with patients undergoing radionuclide therapy and when giving individual radiation protection advice.
The postholder also supports other scientific staff in the provision of a Medical Physics service to external sites. This includes nuclear medicine and PET‑CT services at both mobile and fixed site facilities. This involves performing calibrations and quality assurance, developing clinical imaging protocols and service development and research projects.
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good (1st or 2nd class) Honours degree in a relevant scientific discipline
- MSc in Physics or Medical Physics [or equivalent]
- IPEM Diploma or equivalent in Medical Physics
- State registration as a Clinical Scientist
Desirable criteria
- PhD in Physics
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of Research and Development methodology, and experienced in writing scientific and technical reports.
Desirable criteria
- High level language computer programming
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to quickly gather data and evaluate information to provide immediate problemsolving support to other professionals in Nuclear Medicine, such as to deal with equipment fault issues, or patient study problems, or to deal rapidly with non-standard issues in instrumentation testing.
- Able to communicate Medical Physics based information clearly, for day-to-day support to non-clinical scientists and other physics group members, and able to influence other professionals to follow advice.
- Able to control electro-mechanical computer controlled imaging systems, for testing and support during patient studies.
- Able to plan and execute a personal contribution to scientific research projects, following good scientific method, and contributing scientific input to multi-disciplinary projects. Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences.
Desirable criteria
- Able to teach and train other professionals and trainees
Other
Desirable criteria
- Current clean driving license
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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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
- Anton Paramithas
- Job title
- Head of Nuclear Medicine Physics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07848 818 441
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