Job summary
The Nuclear Medicine Service is a specialised diagnostic and treatment facility based on four sites; Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB), Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH), Good Hope Hospital (GH) and Heartlands Hospital (HH). The case mix is highly specialised and this is reflected in the range of investigations and treatments that are provided. This post is mainly based at Good Hope Hospital but shifts at other sites may be required occasionally.
The Nuclear Medicine service currently has 6 gamma cameras across the 4 sites as well as the Birmingham PET Centre. We are a very busy unit and are presently looking into extending the service by building an additional PET suite. As one of the UK's leading specialist centres we provide a full and comprehensive range of radionuclide imaging studies, non-imaging diagnostic procedures, radionuclide therapies, PET and Bone Mineral Densitometry. The department also provides a specialist dedicated paediatric Nuclear Medicine service at our satellite department at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Some investigations and treatments routinely provided across our sites would not be provided at an average district general hospital.
Further training required in any of these fields will be given to ensure our new staff gain the experience and knowledge required to work in such a diverse department.
Main duties of the job
*Performs a wide range of diagnostic procedures on patients of all ages and who are suffering a wide range of conditions, including cancer.
*Actively involved in the dispensing and administration of sterile radioactive materials; Quality Assurance of different equipment; acquisition and analysis of imaging data; auditing processes and the disposal and management of radioactive waste.
*Work unsupervised at all times.
*Provides direct and indirect supervision to more junior staff.
*Responsible for the organisation of the routine daily and future workloads of the department, authorising investigations and allocating appointments for complex procedures. Lease with other technologists, junior and senior medical staff, nursing and clerical staff.
*Participates in and oversees all aspects of the service.
*Actively involved in the delivery and assessment of theoretical and practical training to junior members of staff and trainees.
*Responsible for adapting the work plan in response to changes in levels of demand and capacity and provide expertise and guidance for service development and innovation.
*Involved in the line management, appraisal, recruitment, and selection of technical staff, communicating any issues with the Deputy Chief, Chief Technologist and / or Head of Nuclear Medicine.
*Be expected to deputise for more senior technologists in their absence.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *BSc Hons Clinical Technology (Nuclear Medicine).
- *Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent level of knowledge.
- *Evidence of Continual Professional Development (CPD).
- *Registered Clinical Technologist/ Radiographer
Experience
Essential
- *Significant diagnostic Nuclear Medicine experience.
- *Experience of dispensing and administering diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals.
- *Able to carry out specialist procedures with highly complex equipment, adapting protocols where necessary.
- *Working knowledge of a range of specialist practice. Innovative skills required to develop work procedures.
- *Evidence of direct involvement with the technical support for a clinical nuclear medicine department, covering a full range of in vivo procedures and imaging.
- *Possess a developed specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of nuclear medicine imaging procedures and analysis.
- *Able to perform, unsupervised, a full range of diagnostic test procedures on patients of all ages including paediatric.
- *Able to devise, write and implement investigational protocols and procedures.
- *Knowledge of the safe use of expensive and highly complex imaging equipment.
- *Has knowledge and experience of NHS working environment within the field of nuclear medicine or PET.
- *Demonstrates a specialist theoretical and practical knowledge relating to the hazards posed by and the precautions required when dealing with ionising radiation arising from sealed and unsealed radioactive diagnostic and therapeutic sources and patients.
- *Has a high degree of theoretical and practical knowledge of radiation protection issues and radioactive decontamination.
- *Has a developed understanding of patient, staff and public risks arising from radiation exposure.
- *Has knowledge of the underpinning legislation relating to nuclear medicine i.e, Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017, Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017, Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016, National Regulations for the Transport of Radioactive Substances, Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (ARSAC) guidelines.
- *Experience of working within a quality management system including the ability to take part in the development of a quality system.
- *Demonstrates significant experience of providing and delivering teaching, training and assessment of junior staff.
- *Able to manipulate scientific data (e.g to present at national/scientific meetings etc).
Desirable
- *Evidence of direct involvement with Radiopharmacy duties, good manufacturing practice and dispensing.
- *Evidence of supervising and managing staff.
- *Evidence of manging project work.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Must be flexible and able to work across other sites at short notice.
- *Able to organise and supervise a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate good team working abilities.
- *Able to demonstrate excellent leadership and motivational skills.
- *Able to demonstrate enthusiasm and show commitment.
- *Able to demonstrate high level of self-motivation.
- *Able to demonstrate a high degree of initiative.
- *Able to deal with patients who may be upset, angry or confused and suffering a wide range of illnesses including psychiatric disorders and cancer.
- *Able to deal with terminally ill patients of all ages (including paediatric) undergoing lengthy procedures.
- *Able to show empathy and understanding towards patients of all ages and also to their relatives/carers.
- *Able to deal with emergency medical crises including cardiac arrests.
- *Must be flexible enough to ensure service is covered at the beginning and end of the day.
- *Able to work alone or as part of a team but must be self-motivated to ensure all requirements of the service are met.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *BSc Hons Clinical Technology (Nuclear Medicine).
- *Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent level of knowledge.
- *Evidence of Continual Professional Development (CPD).
- *Registered Clinical Technologist/ Radiographer
Experience
Essential
- *Significant diagnostic Nuclear Medicine experience.
- *Experience of dispensing and administering diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals.
- *Able to carry out specialist procedures with highly complex equipment, adapting protocols where necessary.
- *Working knowledge of a range of specialist practice. Innovative skills required to develop work procedures.
- *Evidence of direct involvement with the technical support for a clinical nuclear medicine department, covering a full range of in vivo procedures and imaging.
- *Possess a developed specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of nuclear medicine imaging procedures and analysis.
- *Able to perform, unsupervised, a full range of diagnostic test procedures on patients of all ages including paediatric.
- *Able to devise, write and implement investigational protocols and procedures.
- *Knowledge of the safe use of expensive and highly complex imaging equipment.
- *Has knowledge and experience of NHS working environment within the field of nuclear medicine or PET.
- *Demonstrates a specialist theoretical and practical knowledge relating to the hazards posed by and the precautions required when dealing with ionising radiation arising from sealed and unsealed radioactive diagnostic and therapeutic sources and patients.
- *Has a high degree of theoretical and practical knowledge of radiation protection issues and radioactive decontamination.
- *Has a developed understanding of patient, staff and public risks arising from radiation exposure.
- *Has knowledge of the underpinning legislation relating to nuclear medicine i.e, Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017, Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017, Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016, National Regulations for the Transport of Radioactive Substances, Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (ARSAC) guidelines.
- *Experience of working within a quality management system including the ability to take part in the development of a quality system.
- *Demonstrates significant experience of providing and delivering teaching, training and assessment of junior staff.
- *Able to manipulate scientific data (e.g to present at national/scientific meetings etc).
Desirable
- *Evidence of direct involvement with Radiopharmacy duties, good manufacturing practice and dispensing.
- *Evidence of supervising and managing staff.
- *Evidence of manging project work.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Must be flexible and able to work across other sites at short notice.
- *Able to organise and supervise a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate good team working abilities.
- *Able to demonstrate excellent leadership and motivational skills.
- *Able to demonstrate enthusiasm and show commitment.
- *Able to demonstrate high level of self-motivation.
- *Able to demonstrate a high degree of initiative.
- *Able to deal with patients who may be upset, angry or confused and suffering a wide range of illnesses including psychiatric disorders and cancer.
- *Able to deal with terminally ill patients of all ages (including paediatric) undergoing lengthy procedures.
- *Able to show empathy and understanding towards patients of all ages and also to their relatives/carers.
- *Able to deal with emergency medical crises including cardiac arrests.
- *Must be flexible enough to ensure service is covered at the beginning and end of the day.
- *Able to work alone or as part of a team but must be self-motivated to ensure all requirements of the service are met.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
