Band 7 Principal Nuclear Medicine Technologist - Training Lead
Job summary
The Nuclear Medicine Service is a specialised diagnostic and treatment facility based on four sites: Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB), Heartlands Hospital (HH), Good Hope Hospital (GH) and Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH)). The case mix is highly specialised, and this is reflected in the range of investigations and treatments that are provided.
The training lead role will oversea staff training, training days, students, apprentices and staff development for the Nuclear Medicine service. They will work closely with the management team to ensure all training needs for the team are met and that legislative requirements are complied with.
Main duties of the job
The Nuclear Medicine Training Lead and be part of a multidisciplinary team that provides routine and complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and services directly to patients.
The post holder will share responsibility with the other training lead to complete the following:
- Facilitating training within Nuclear Medicine
- Supervision of the training clinical staff ensuring provision of effective and efficient training systems
- Liaison with the management team to ensure clinical staff have the ability and resources to carry out training opportunities
- Acting as the clinical staff representative in strategic planning and departmental performance review
- Initiating and organising audits
- Working with physicists and radiologists to improve and develop the service
- Creating the roster to align with training needs of the service across all four sites
- Supervise apprentices, trainees and students and ensure training is up to date
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*
Person Specification
Qualifications
- BSc Hons Clinical Technology (nuclear
- medicine), Diagnostic Radiography or
- equivalent.
- Developed highly, specialist knowledge
- and experience across a range of work
- procedures (MSc level) -- gained from
- experience, short courses and study and
- to have rotated and actively participated
- in all areas of specialist work.
- Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent
- level of knowledge.
- Evidence of Continual Professional
- Development (CPD).
- Registered Clinical Technologist /
- Diagnostic Radiographer
- Student assessment qualification (Level 3
Experience
- Significant diagnostic Nuclear Medicine
- Experience
- Specialist experience in functional
- imaging
- Experience of dispensing and
- administering diagnostic and therapy
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Experience delivering training,
- supervising students, mentoring and
- assessing.
- Expected to carry out specialist
- procedures with highly complex
- equipment, adapting protocols where
- necessary.
- Experience of working within a quality
- management system.
- Have a 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 and in vitro procedures,
- therapy applications and radiopharmacy.
- Possess a developed specialist
- theoretical and practical knowledge of
- nuclear medicine imaging and nonimaging procedures and analysis. Able to
- perform a full range of diagnostic test
- procedures on patients of all ages
- including paediatric.
- Possess specialist theoretical and
- practical knowledge of radiopharmacy
- with the ability to dispense and administer
- intravenous radiopharmaceuticals.
- Able to devise, write and implement
- investigational protocols and procedures.
- Expected to carry out specialist
- procedures with highly complex
- equipment, adapting protocols where
- necessary.
- Knowledge of the safe use of expensive
- and highly complex imaging, non-imaging
- and related equipment (>50,000)
- Has knowledge of NHS working
- environment within the field of nuclear
- medicine / 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 a high level of knowledge of radiation
- protection and legislation relating to
- nuclear medicine i.e, Ionising Radiations
- Regulations, Ionising Radiations (Medical
- Exposure) Regulations, Radioactive
- Substances Act, Medicines Act
- Radioactive Substances, Transport
- Regulations and 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)
Additional Criteria
- 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.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm
- Company
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom B15 2TH
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom B15 2TH
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year
- Posted