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Salary 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 and nearby Trusts. The role would suit a recent STP graduate, those nearing completion or those working towards HCPC registration via alternative routes.
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 successful applicant will be expected to work in the following key areas : quality assurance of instrumentation (gamma cameras, counters, calibrators as well as PET/CT), clinical processing in terms of quantification of uptake in images and supporting a GFR service, direct patient contact through managing and delivering a radio-iodine therapy service, supporting the department in complying with its legal obligations (EA, IRR and IRMER), promoting service development projects and research, training of others, mainly trainees on the STP programme.
St George’s University Hospital in Tooting is one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals and shares facilities 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 being an acute hospital, a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services are provided to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010 and the Trust employs nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, making St. Georges’ University Hospital one of the largest healthcare providers in southwest London.
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.
Quality assurance of instrumentation (gamma cameras, counters, calibrators as well as PET/CT), clinical processing in terms of quantification of uptake in images and supporting a GFR service, direct patient contact through managing and delivering a radio-iodine therapy service, supporting the department in complying with its legal obligations (EA, IRR and IRMER), promoting service development projects and research, training of others, mainly trainees on the STP programme
