Clinical Technologist

Band 5

**Main area**
- Radiation Physics

**Grade**
- Band 5

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

**Job ref**
- 164-5543338

**Site**
- Queens Medical Centre Campus

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 06/09/2023 23:59

**Interview date**
- 10/10/2023

Job overview

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well motivated individual to the role of a Band 5 Clinical Technologist in the Radiation Physics Section of the Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Department in Nottingham. Radiation Physics is a highly specialised section within the department providing scientific and technical support to departments using ionising and non-ionising radiation both for treatment and diagnosis.

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are, a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation. For more information about the Trust, visit our website

Some of the benefits of working for our organisation include:

- Flexible working
- Opportunities for to be innovative/creative in the workplace
- Friendly and supportive work colleagues within the team
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel

We are a small, friendly and supportive team of around 25 staff dedicated to helping clinical services provide safe and effective patient diagnoses and treatments.

We are committed to continuing professional development for all our staff through a range of opportunities that include recognised training schemes, involvement in service development and audit.

If you think that you have the skills, experience and attributes for this role and would like to know more, please contact Mr Perways Akram, telephone 0115 9249924 x 86843 for more information.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Undertake routine tests of complex X-ray equipment requiring precision measurements.

Undertake routine tests of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound equipment.

Undertake routine tests on phototherapy equipment.

Provide support to the patient dosimetry measurement service.

Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment and act on this information accordingly.

Liaise with clinical staff to plan quality assurance tests.

Liaise with manufacturers’ engineers to obtain information and provide feedback on equipment.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria
- Able to drive. Car driver with full clean license

Training & Qualification

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria
- Have completed the IPEM Clinical Technologists training scheme.

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a quality system (e.g. ISO 9000)

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
- Able to communicate concisely, effectively and clearly.
- Able to work as part of a team

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
- Able to perform simple analytical calculations
- Able to identify the need to request advice from senior colleagues

Desirable criteria
- Able to identify and investigate faults with medical imaging equipment to inform decisions about its management.

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability to organise their work effectively and maintain a shared electronic diary.

Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading a small development project.

Physical skills

Essential criteria
- Able to lift medium weights including loading and unloading to and from a car and positioning test phantoms onto imaging equipment.
- Able to use a laptop computer in a field testing environment and make accurate keyboard data entries.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system