KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Take part in the medical physicist duty scanning rota, providing technical support and first line troubleshooting to the PET Centre routine scanning operation. Contribute to the routine medical physics activities in the PET Centre, including quality control testing and maintenance of medical devices. Provide general technical and software support necessary to enable the Centre to maintain and develop a first-class clinical service. Develop protocols and procedures for clinical scanning and incorporate recent advances in PET-CT, total body PET and PET-MR methodology into clinical practice. Ensure that new procedures are appropriately tested, validated, documented, and communicated to relevant groups. Contribute to the technical, scientific and regulatory aspects of setting up clinical research studies in PET-CT, total body PET and PET-MR, including defining scanning protocols for new tracers and studies, preparing applications for regulatory approval, resolving safety and radiation safety issues, and drafting systems of work. Provide ongoing support to researchers in performing studies including,writing software tools and utilities for data acquisition, transfer and analysis, developing documentation, and carrying out data processing procedures. Make presentations at technical meetings and scientific meetings both within the department and at scientific conferences and publish work in scientific journals. Take on duties concerning radiation protection and use of radioactive materials throughout the PET Centre including the cyclotron and radiochemistry facilities, as well as acting as a Radiation Protection Supervisor where and when needed. Ensure the PET Centres compliance with all relevant regulations including the Ionising Radiations Regulations and the Ionising Regulations (Medical Exposures) Regulations, Environment Agency permits, and the General Data Protection Regulations, for instance by performing related administrative tasks. Take part in teaching and training activities. Liaise with clinical, technical, administrative, and scientific staff and with clinical collaborators, industrial suppliers/collaborators, and representatives of regulatory bodies, communicating material of a specialist and complex nature clearly. Undertake other tasks and responsibilities appropriate to the position as necessary, including working flexible hours if required. The role will require the post holder to be physically on site for the majority of the working week.The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.