Locum Consultant Nuclear Medicine

Job overview

Locum Consultant Nuclear Medicine

Division:  Diagnostics & Therapies

Care Group: Cancer and Clinical Core Services

Grade: Locum Consultant

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum/pro rata

Duration: 6 months

Job description has been approved by the Royal College.

We are recruiting for Locum Consultants in Radiology who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People  and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Applications are invited for Nuclear Medicine Consultant .

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Nuclear Medicine department is a busy clinical department offering a comprehensive nuclear medicine service.

The Radiopharmacy supplies other trusts and generates a substantial income for the trust from this work.

The department has 2 SPECT/CT GE 16 slice CT gamma cameras which are state of the art, and new digital NM/CT 870 CZT recently installed May 2024.

A new Hologic Discovery A scanner has recently been installed and around 5000 DEXA scans are undertaken  within the osteoporosis unit.

The department has a particular interest and expertise in Oncology, Orthopaedic Imaging, Osteoporosis, Nuclear Cardiology and Thyroid and Parathyroid disorders. However, the full range of nuclear medicine is practised including paediatrics, urology, and neurology. The largest number of tests are isotope bone scans, cardiac myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), lung scans, thyroid scans, DAT scans, renograms and DMSA scans. There is one day set aside for paediatric work with specialist paediatric nurse support. Gated SPECT MPI studies with adenosine, rapiscan and dobutamine are performed on 3 days a week. A specialised thyroid service is offered by the nuclear medicine department combining isotope scanning with the thyroid clinic. The department has an interest in metabolic bone disease and undertakes  metabolic bone clinics and provision of osteoporosis services in the trust.