Clinical Scientist (Nuclear Medicine Physics)NHS

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Portsmouth, PO6 3LY Permanent £49,387 to £56,515

Posted 18 August 2026 Closing date 31 August 2026

Cosham Rail Station (0.6 miles away) Havant Bus Station (3.7 miles away)

Job summary

NHS Band 7 Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours Per Week: 37.5 full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Purpose

To manage own work, for areas of responsibility.
To participate in scientific support and clinical services for Nuclear Medicine Physics.
To participate in scientific support for Nuclear Medicine and other departments, including external contracts.
To maintain own registration, by performing/recording own CPD.
To train other Clinical Scientists, including Route 1 Trainee Clinical Scientists and Route 2 Trainee Clinical Scientists.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Areas of responsibility are defined and delegated by the Head of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Bone Densitometry and the Deputy Head of Nuclear Medicine Physics.
Manage own work. Entailing highly complex and highly specialised scientific support, for equipment management, radiodiagnostic tests, radiotherapeutic treatments and radiation protection. Ensuring scientific services are prioritised and performed, to the required standards in the required timescales, via responsive strategies.
Accurate and appropriate use of specialised complex software, including application software (e.g. Microsoft Office) and utility software (e.g. clinical applications).
Participate in and propose changes to review/revision of Standard Operating Procedures, managed via the Quality Management System (QMS). For example, incorporating guidance, policy and research.
When discharging duties to communicate with members of multi-disciplinary teams, like clinicians, duty holders and managers, in consideration of different roles/responsibilities and different expertise/experiences, to ensure the optimal outcome for patients and services.

Job description

Specific Core Functions:

Regarding radiation protection, the post holder will adhere to and apply all trust policies and local procedures for:
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations for the storage and use of radioactive materials and the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste.
The Ionising Radiations Regulations for the protection of the public and staff.
The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations for the protection of the patients.
Under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations:
Follow trust policies and local procedures for managing the sealed sources.
Follow trust policies and local procedures for storage of unsealed and disposal of radioactive waste.
Under the Ionising Radiations Regulations:
Participate in review/revision of general radiation risk assessments, for service specific work.
Perform as required any personal radiation risk assessments, for patient specific procedures.
Follow the Local Rules.
Under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations:
Participate in submission of new/amendment applications for Employer/Practitioner licences to the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (ARSAC).
Participate in review/revision of IR(ME)R procedures.
Participate in audit of compliance with IR(ME)R.
Participate in equipment management.
For example, acceptance testing and routing testing, also, updating SOPs and performing audits.
For non-imaging equipment, like radionuclide calibrators, intraoperative probes and automatic sample counters.
For imaging equipment, like SPECT-CT scanners and PET-CT scanner.
Act as an operator, for non-imaging tests and radionuclide treatments.
For non-imaging tests, like Glomerular Filtration Rate Tests and Bile Acid Malabsorption Tests.
For radionuclide treatments, like radioiodine therapy for benign thyroid disease and thyroid cancer.
Participate in implementation/optimisation of non-imaging tests, imaging tests and radionuclide treatments.
Supporting clinical trials.
The post holder will adhere to and apply all trust policies and local procedures for health and safety, including moving and handling, infection control and COSHH, as applicable.
Responsibilities frequently require the analysis of highly complex issues in order to advise on multiple potential options, drawing on advanced theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Providing advice involves communicating highly complex information to other healthcare professionals and acting with limits of knowledge and skills. Clinical advice occasionally involves exposure to highly emotional circumstances.
Supplies and services will be ordered and obtained, according to procedures for Medical Physics and Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust.
To support the training of Route 1/Route 2 Trainee Clinical Scientists in Nuclear Medicine/PET. Additionally, as required to support the training of Radiographers/Technologists in Nuclear Medicine Physics.
To deliver training in Nuclear Medicine, PET and radiation protection to colleagues from different departments at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, and under contract with external providers, as applicable.

For full job details, please refer to enclosed job description.

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

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