Specialist Radiation Protection Technologist

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced radiation protection technologist to join our expanding Radiation Protection & Radiology Physics Department within the Medical Physics Service based at Hull University Teaching Hospitals. The successful candidate will have, or be able to obtain within a reasonable time, RCT or AHCS registration as a clinical technologist.

The team currently is comprised of a chief technologist, four band 6 technologists (including this post), ten physicists and three trainees, including a PTP technologist apprentice trainee. We are based at Castle Hill Hospital on the slopes of the Yorkshire Wolds, and provide physics support to the acute Trusts either side of the Humber Estuary, as well as to other trusts and private providers, for a wide range of specialisms including radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. We support a substantial number of private dental clinics and veterinary centres over a large part of England.

Main duties of the job

To help imaging departments to ensure that radiation doses to staff, patients and others are kept as low as reasonably achievable while maintaining good diagnostic image quality. Your role in achieving this will include

• Testing of a wide range of X-ray imaging systems, principally in healthcare settings, but including some veterinary and other systems, and providing reports and recommendations to clients.
• Advising clients on best practice and radiation regulatory requirements. This may involve some delivery of basic training.
• Travel, on average several times a week, sometimes long distance (e.g. Newcastle). The department has access to pool cars, but use of own car may be necessary at times when these are unavailable.

In our team, we believe in utilising the knowledge and skills of clinical technologists to their full extent, to provide the highest quality service to our clients and their patients.

More information on the role and the department can be found in the job description, at hullmedicalphysics.uk and hullrad.org.uk, and by contacting John Wilson (john.wilson32@nhs.net, 01482 461409) or Tim Wood (tim.wood3@nhs.net, 01482 461332).

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.