Healthcare Science Practitioner | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Dorset are looking for a Healthcare Science Practitioner toassistin the provision of diagnostic radiology physics and radiation protection services throughout East Dorset, covering a range of medical imaging modalities

You willassistin the physics support to various imaging services across the hospital sites and the region.

Base Location

Poole Hospital - Radiology Physics

Interview Date

24th November

• Entering information relating to the work of the group into databases and spreadsheets and ensuring all issues are followed up by scientific staff.
• Booking visits to clients.
• Booking rooms for and arranging meetings with the various QC and client groups.
• Development of spreadsheets and databases as required by the scientific staff.
• Day to day monitoring of the QC spreadsheets used by clients, ensuring all issues are followed up by scientific staff.
• Assisting the radiology physicists with administrative work as required.
• Assisting in reviewing and writing departmental protocols and procedures, updating them to correspond with current best practice and / or legislation.
• Creating and maintaining records of equipment QC testing and audits.
• Preparation of documentation and equipment for work outside the department.
• Organisation of training meetings for external clients.

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Communication and working relationship Skills

• Liaise with other Professional Staff, both inside and outside the Trusts,regardingrelevant aspects of the Medical Physics service.
• Toparticipatein the Department’s teaching activities, delivering training to internal and external clients.
• The post-holder will routinely provide and receive complex information, where high levels of understanding and interpretation are required, such as explaining the significance of adverse findings from QC testing of equipment that may require the users to take it out of service and arrange corrective action.

Analytical and judgemental Skills

• Acquireandmaintainknowledge ofappropriate NIRequipment and clinical techniques throughout the districtin so far asthey affect radiation exposure and / or image quality.
• The post-holder willbe requiredto work through scientific and technical problems on a regular basis. This will require analysis of complex results using highly specialised and complex scientific equipment and techniques, with a high degree of accuracy. There is a regular requirement for prolonged concentration, both in conducting tests and in analysing data and producing reports, where advice is given.

This advert closes on Sunday 8 Nov 2026