NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
Nuclear Medicine
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Head of Nuclear Medicine 8D (Permanent)
Base - to be agreed - Acute Site within NHSGGC
Applications are invited to join our dynamic, forward-thinking and friendly team as Head of Nuclear Medicine.
The Head of Nuclear Medicine will be responsible for overall management and coordination of the service, providing clinical scientific leadership and working closely with individual department leads to deliver integrated, cohesive and comprehensive nuclear medicine services.
Four clinical sessions per week will involve providing expert clinical scientific support and leadership to the paediatric nuclear medicine service at the Royal Hospital for Children, reporting operationally for this to the Nuclear Medicine service lead for South and Clyde (based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital) to ensure service resilience and cross-cover.
Nuclear medicine provides comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine services to NHS GGC. Some nuclear medicine services are also provided regionally (e.g. PET-CT, molecular therapies) or nationally (e.g. SMaRT kids paediatric molecular therapy).
Nuclear medicine services include diagnostic imaging (including PET-CT), non-imaging diagnostic tests, theragnostics and therapeutics involving radionuclides and DXA for bone densitometry. These are provided via five primary departments at major acute hospital sites across Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
The department is a major training centre for clinical and non-clinical staff and students.
The physics-led service is well equipped with 14 gamma cameras, 2 PET-CT scanners, 2 DXA units, and an imaging computer network that is integrated across all sites. Approximately 45,000 investigations are undertaken annually.
This is an exciting time to lead NHS GGC Nuclear Medicine services with the significant developments in both diagnosing and treating patients on the cancer pathway.
For further information please contact the Scientific Director Andrew Reilly (0141 451 6383), or Antionette Parr, General Manager (Antoinette.parr@ggc.scot.nhs.uk).
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde- NHS Scotland encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
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NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part-time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37-hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.
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