Associate Practitioner - Radiation Safety Department

Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. In addition to that, we work to become an outstanding, inclusive place to work.

The Trust includes The Royal London Hospital, Mile End Hospital, Whipps Cross University Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Newham University Hospital. Our hospitals are equipped with a wide range of radiological imaging equipment including modern digital radiography and fluoroscopy units, interventional radiological and cardiac angiography suites, spectral CT scanners, mammography units and a variety of dental units in our Dental Hospital.

The Radiation Safety Section provides radiation safety and physics support to users of ionising radiation across many clinical departments within the Trust and to external employers. This includes a personal dosimetry service which monitors staff radiation exposure to ensure doses remain as low as practicable and in compliance with radiation safety legislation.

This role will support the delivery of the personal dosimetry service to ensure the department support safe monitoring of staff radiation exposure and meet key performance indicators for service delivery. You will have the opportunity to gain experience across the spectrum of our work and make contributions to the team objectives.

Main duties of the job

The Radiation Safety Section is based at the Royal London Hospital where you will be predominantly based, though you may from time to time be required to work other Trust sites.

The post-holder will primarily support the personal dosimetry service manager and contribute to other aspects of the Department's work including data handling and analysis and audits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment