# Senior Nuclear Medicine Physicist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-nuclear-medicine-physicist/e1df111d-3f8f-4b6f-bf6e-2b5e3a87d57f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-nuclear-medicine-physicist/e1df111d-3f8f-4b6f-bf6e-2b5e3a87d57f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical physicist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 pa Inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T10:41:41.983Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8273821 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8273821?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical scientist to join our team of nuclear medicine physicists within the Radiological Sciences Unit (RSU). The successful applicant will be a HCPC registered clinical scientist who is certified to act as a Medical Physics Expert (MPE) in nuclear medicine and is passionate about leading improvement and delivering the best patient care. Within the trust, the physics group supports a range of equipment across nuclear medicine and PET/CT including SPECT/CT systems, PET/CT systems, gamma counting equipment, dose calibrators and interoperative probes. There is a comprehensive molecular radiotherapy service including I-131 for benign thyroid conditions, Y-90 Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) and Lu-177 Dotatate for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours. We are also involved in the delivery of several novel therapeutic tracers for research purposes. Through our external contracts, we support 5 gamma cameras and two PET/CT scanners. We are active in clinical and academic research, participating in several commercial and Imperial led clinical trials. There is significant involvement in the training of clinical and healthcare scientists and MSc teaching in conjunction with Imperial College London. ### Main duties of the job - To plan, organise and implement integrated computer information systems for handling, analysing and interpreting Nuclear Medicine data and provide specialist expertise in the analysis of such data. - To ensure the successful training of trainee Clinical Scientists - Provide highly complex and specialised scientific support as the Medical Physics Expert as defined in the Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposures) Regulations 2017 (IRMER17) with regard to development of new techniques, problem solving and data analysis to nuclear medicine clinicians, technologists and senior managers - Develop and deliver day-to-day management of the Quality Assurance programme for nuclear medicine equipment within the Trust. - Planning and providing routine quality assurance, performance assessment, auditing assessments in support of Nuclear Medicine equipment. This involves high precision, complex measurements and safe and rapid preparation of radioactive test sources - Acceptance testing of new nuclear medicine installations across the Trust and for Service Level Agreement customers. - Day to day troubleshooting of all nuclear medicine equipment across the Trust and for Service Level Agreement customers. - Provide day-to-day supervision of junior nuclear medicine physics staff, trainee clinical scientists and scientific visiting staff. ### 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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Significant experience in Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Safety Physics (in specialist Nuclear Medicine diagnosis and therapy, equipment troubleshooting, interpreting and ensuring compliance with legislation, understanding radiation risks) - Experience in Nuclear Medicine Quality Assurance - Teaching experience - Day to day supervision of junior staff **Desirable** - Experience of computer programming e.g. Matlab, IDL, python. ### Education **Essential** - First Degree in a Physical Science - MSc in Radiation Physics or equivalent subject or equivalent experience - State registration as a Clinical Scientist - Certification as a Medical Physics Expert (MPE) for nuclear medicine or the ability to achieve within 3 months **Desirable** - 1st or 2nd class honours degree - PhD in a relevant topic ### Experience **Essential** - Proven competence and understanding of nuclear medicine physics and radiation protection - Specialist expertise to act as a Radiation Protection Supervisor. - Self-motivated / ability for problem solving & decision making - Able to prepare and administer radioiodine capsules to patients and provide specialised advice on contact restrictions to patients - Specialist training and practical experience in a wide range of nuclear medicine equipment and computer applications **Desirable** - Teaching at postgraduate level - Previous involvement in research and development activities - Previous involvement in a range of radionuclide therapies including novel therapy. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 552.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10589425) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10589426) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.