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Assistant Practitioner | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Darlington, DL3 6HX |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6398589/317-2024-25-25-DR |
Summary
We are looking to recruit an assistant nuclear medicine practitioner to join our Darlington nuclear medicine team. Working alongside Healthcare Science Practitioners, Clinical Scientists, Admin staff and Radiologists, the successful applicant will contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a wide range of conditions and from all backgrounds.
• Interview date:25 July 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
The ideal candidate will have an understanding and experience of nuclear medicine or radiology, although suitably experienced support workers working in other sections are invited to apply as full training will be given. Accuracy and ability to adapt to a varied workload are essential as the department delivers a wide range of highly technical imaging and non-imaging services, and oversight of the workload on any given day will be required.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
The assistant practitioner will support high quality healthcare in the department by providing care and support to patients attending for procedures, including taking and processing blood samples. Non-clinical duties will include assisting the senior members of the clinical team in maintaining regulatory compliance, including monitoring for radioactive contamination and keeping accurate records. As part of the Northern Regional Medical Physics team, occasional cross-site working at Durham or Hartlepool may be required, although reasonable travel expenses will be paid.
• To undertake a range of activities within the imaging service under the direct supervision of a qualified Clinical Technologist.
• Assisting the technologists and physicists in delivering a high quality efficient and effective Nuclear Medicine service and demonstrate a professional, caring and responsible approach to patients.
• To undertake a range of technical activities within the radiopharmacy under the direct supervision of the Radiopharmacy Technologist having successfully completed an in-house competency-based training programme that encompasses the concepts of Quality Assurance, GMP and Quality Control.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jul 2024
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