Nuclear Med specialist Receptionist and Rad Protection Administrator

Job overview

Band 3 Nuclear Medicine specialist receptionist and Radiation Protection Administrator

**This is a fixed-term post for 7 months to cover maternity leave.**

This position is split 50/50 between the Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Protection Departments:

• In Nuclear Medicine you will be manning the specialism reception dealing with patients and facilitating their pathway. There are administrative duties too.
• In Radiation Protection there is administration including booking visits and updating the databases and organising workflows.

Main duties of the job

In Nuclear Medicine:

• Act as part of team tracking medical records, answering queries and arranging patient appointments/ admissions where necessary. Extensive use of electronic patient record system (EPR) and other associated systems.
• Responsible for providing non-clinical advice to patients and relatives as and when required as far as scheduling appointments is concerned.
• To be responsible for cooordinating non-radioactive stock control and departmental ordering and purchasing systems in line with Trust procurement policies.
• Use of the procurement systems for ordering and invoicing external sites, departments and suppliers.

In Radiation Protection:

• To manage and organise the QA schedule kept on an Excel spread sheet, matching staff availability from Outlook to the equipment requirements.
• To maintain and update the training database, ensuring the integrity of the data issue of certification.  Provide summaries of training provided.
• Schedule staff training sessions, including booking rooms as necessary, invite the trainees and answer queries.
• The RP team provide the secretariat function to the Trust Radiation Protection Committee (RPC) and the responsibilities are to ensure smooth running of the RPC.
• Take part in, and minute the RP Departmental monthly meetings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.