Nuclear Medicine Physicist

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.

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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

• Nuclear Medicine Physicist - JD (PDF, 377.6KB)
• Referee Contact details form (PDF, 200.6KB)