Specialist Radiopharmacy Technician

Job overview

Barts Health Trust is one of UK’s largest hospitals and among the best in Europe.  The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services and specialist services across its five different sites,  This exciting role is based at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, based in the heart of London’s financial district near St Paul’s Cathedral. St Bartholomew’s is renowned  nationally and internationally for excellence in diagnosis, treatment and research of patients. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high-quality teaching and research.  The Radiopharmacy Department at Barts Health is undergoing an exciting and innovative phase of exponential expansion. The Radiopharmacy department forms  part of the Imaging department which relies on close working relationships between a number of different staff groups including scientists, pharmacy technicians, imaging technologists, physicists and clinicians.  We are a MHRA Manufacturer's Specials Licenced Radiopharmacy, who also hold  a MIA(IMA) License, supplying key radiopharmaceuticals to Nuclear Medicine &  Imaging departments within our Trust and to other hospitals.

Main duties of the job

Our service includes a range of activities from the aseptic preparation of radiopharmaceuticals and blood cell radioisotope labelling for the purposes of  diagnostic imaging, batch manufacture, clinical trials, and quality control laboratory activities. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technician or scientist  with experience in radiopharmaceutical or aseptic production to further develop their career in a world leading center. The successful applicant will be actively  involved in Radiopharmacy Production at St Bartholomew’s Hospital providing high quality, safe, efficient radiopharmaceuticals manufacturing and maintaining the  supply chain to customers.  We are looking to recruit a highly motivated specialist technician, who is able to work effectively in a team delivering safe and effective service to customers, in line  with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and other relevant regulations. If you would like to work as part of this friendly team that is at the forefront of innovative  Radiopharmacy delivery, and supports learning, development and career progression too, then this is the job for you.

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