Nuclear Medicine Consultant (Nuclear Medicine Consultant) - Nuclear Medicine - Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust – Gillingham, Kent
Care Group: Cancer and Clinical Core Services
Grade: Consultant
Job description has been approved by the Royal College.
We are recruiting for Consultants in Radiology who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Applications are invited for Nuclear Medicine Consultant.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies and procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
The Nuclear Medicine department is a busy clinical department offering a comprehensive nuclear medicine service. The Radiopharmacy supplies other trusts and generates a substantial income for the trust from this work.
The department has 2 SPECT/CT GE 16 slice CT gamma cameras which are state of the art, and a new digital NM/CT 870 CZT was recently installed in May 2024.
A new Hologic Discovery A scanner has recently been installed and around 5000 DEXA scans are undertaken within the osteoporosis unit.
The department has a particular interest and expertise in Oncology, Orthopaedic Imaging, Osteoporosis, Nuclear Cardiology, and Thyroid and Parathyroid disorders. However, the full range of nuclear medicine is practiced including paediatrics, urology, and neurology. The largest number of tests are isotope bone scans, cardiac myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), lung scans, thyroid scans, DAT scans, renograms, and DMSA scans. There is one day set aside for paediatric work with specialist paediatric nurse support. Gated SPECT MPI studies with adenosine, rapiscan, and dobutamine are performed on 3 days a week. A specialised thyroid service is offered by the nuclear medicine department combining isotope scanning with the thyroid clinic. The department has an interest in metabolic bone disease and undertakes metabolic bone clinics and provision of osteoporosis services in the trust.
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