Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology Physics
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (10 sessions Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 205-7437543
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Stoke University Hospital
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

MRI and Ultrasound Physicist
Band 8a
Job overview
This post is within the Radiology Physics team at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM). UHNM is one of the largest Trusts in the country. It is a teaching hospital in collaboration with Keele University, and is an Imaging Academy hub for the West Midlands. The main site is situated just 5 minutes from Junction 15 of the M6, providing excellent transport links north, south and east, together with immediate access to the beautiful countryside of Staffordshire, Shropshire and the Peak District.
University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS Trust
Medical Physics Department
MRI & Ultrasound Physicist
Band 8A
Main duties of the job
The Radiology Physics section of the Medical Physics department provides wide-ranging scientific and technical support to UHNM and to other Acute, and community based Trusts across Staffordshire and Shropshire. We are seeking an experienced physicist to participate in delivery of our clinical scientific services in MRI and ultrasound physics. Candidates must be HCPC registered clinical scientists, with extensive expertise, and at least 5 year’s hospital based experience, in both MRI physics and ultrasound physics.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role due to the required Skill Level and salary threshold.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- State Registered Clinical Scientist with HCPC in Imaging with Non-ionising Radiation (MRI & Ultrasound) Specialty
- Honours Degree 1st or 2.1 in physics or a closely relevant physical science
- Relevant postgraduate MSc degree in medical physics
- Completion of specialist Healthcare Scientist Training Programme (STP) in Imaging with Non-Ionising Radiation (MRI & Ultrasound) physics
Desirable criteria
- 1st class honours achieved in physics degree
- PhD in a medical science discipline
- IPEM MRSE certificate of competence
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 5 years in hospital medical physics within imaging with Non-ionising radiations (MRI & Ultrasound) speciality (or 4 years as described -if also has successful additional PhD research in a medical science discipline)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jonathan Eatough
- Job title
- Head of Radiology Physics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01782 672544
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