Nuclear Medicine Therapy Lead, Band 7

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Key Results Area 1. Lead a team inclusively and to encourage the contribution of all team members and support them in a complex environment. 2. Provide specialist advice in all areas of Nuclear Medicine Therapy including facilities, equipment and Radiopharmaceuticals.
3. Prepare procedures/protocols/competencies documentation for different Nuclear Medicine treatments. 4. Work with Medical Physics to ensure there is maintenance of equipment and facilities.
5. Supervision and participation in the treatment of Iodine-131, Radium-223 patients. 6. Be responsible for Imaging of Therapy Patients 7.
Be responsible for providing GFR tests. This includes: coordination of the service for timely delivery with the correct skill mix; supervision and participation; checking and reporting results. 8. Participate in the development of the service to introduce new treatments.
9. To attend internal and external meetings on behalf of the Trust and feedback actions to the Nuclear Medicine leadership team. 10. To participate in scientific problem solving and troubleshooting problems.
11. To provide and sign off competency training for the team. Perform annual appraisals for the team. 12.
To perform the role of Radiation Protection Supervisor, including writing Local Rules and Risk Assessment following the advice from the Trust Radiation Protection Adviser to comply with the Ionising Radiations Regulations (2017) 13. The post holder will be an operator as defined by the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (2017). 14. Manage the ordering, storage and the waste disposal in accordance with site permit to comply with Environmental Permitting Regulation (2016), taking guidance from the Radiation Waste Adviser 15.
Provide training for stakeholder staff groups. 16. Participate in the Radiopharmacy Rota as part of Contingency Planning to maintain staff resilience across the department. Please see attached Job Description for more information

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