Trainee Radiation Protection Technologist

The main duties of the job will include

• Undertake training to achieve RCT registration as a Clinical Technologist within an appropriate timeframe.
• To help imaging departments to ensure that radiation doses to staff, patients and others are kept as low as reasonably achievable while maintaining good diagnostic image quality.
• Testing of a wide range of X-ray imaging systems, principally in healthcare settings, but including some veterinary and other systems, and providing reports and recommendations to clients.
• Advising clients on best practice and radiation regulatory requirements. This may involve some delivery of basic training.
• Travel, on average several times a week, sometimes long distance (e.g. Newcastle). The department has access to pool cars, but use of own car may be necessary at times when these are unavailable.
  
  We are looking for a technically minded person to join our team as a trainee Radiation Protection Technologist. You may be
1. A graduate (or are soon to graduate) with a degree in a scientific or engineering subject, or equivalent qualification and experience who we would train through the 2-year IPEM Clinical Technologist Training Scheme to RCT registration as a Clinical Technologist in Radiation Physics, or 2. Have, or will soon have, A level, BTEC or equivalent scientific/technical qualifications who we would train through a three-year degree apprenticeship scheme, leading to a BSc Healthcare Science (Radiation Physics) from UWE Bristol and RCT registration as a Clinical Technologist in Radiation Physics.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Graduate entrants would be expected to be employed at NHS Agenda-for-Change (AfC) band 5 (starting at £32,073) and degree apprenticeship entrants on AfC band 5 Annex 21 (starting at £23,378). On successful RCT registration as a Clinical Technologist in Radiation Physics, the new registrant would be eligible for internal training towards a permanent band 6 Specialist Clinical Technologist post.