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, working collaboratively with clinical resource sharing for this to the Nuclear Medicine service lead for South and Clyde.
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.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 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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