Job summary
Employer heading
Radiopharmacy Production Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
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Job overview
"This post will commence from April 2025".
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Technologist to extend their experience to management of a licenced radiopharmacy.
The post holder will be expected to act as the Radiopharmacy Production Manager on the specials licence which is regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
In addition they will be responsible for the day to day running of the radiopharmacy service.
There will also be involvement in some of the diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine service including some training of the junior staff. Nuclear Medicine is a multidisciplinary team with Clinical Scientist, Clinical Technologists, Nurses and admin.
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist advice on the manufacture, dispensing and administration of all radiopharmaceuticals.
Provide specialist training of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) .
Lead and prepare necessary data for MHRA inspections.
Responsible for ensuring exception reports relating the radiopharmacy are acted upon..
To act as ‘authorised person’ working to well defined procedures for the release of radiopharmaceutical products as per requirements of MHRA Specials license.
Manage and participate in manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals in isolators under aseptic conditions for administration to patients.
Develop and update protocols for the radiopharmacy.
Responsible for determining staff are competent to undertake tasks unsupervised in the radiopharmacy.
Responsible for ensuring the renewal of contracts for radiopharmaceuticals for ULHT working with procurement.
Aseptically dispense patient doses of radiopharmaceuticals using radionuclide calibrators employing dose decay calculations and dosing factors where appropriate to comply with IRMER.
Perform intravenous and subcutaneous injections of radiopharmaceuticals.
Act as an Operator under IRMER (2017) to carry out routine and specialist diagnostic Nuclear Medicine investigations.
Working for our organisation
Nuclear Medicine is a clinical diagnostic service covering routine and complex diagnostic procedures (imaging and non-imaging) as well as radionuclide therapeutic treatments. The Radiopharmacy produces products under a Specials licence from Medicines and Healthcare products regulatory Agency (MHRA) required by the service daily.
ULHT is a newly appointed teaching trust with good links to the University.
Lincoln is beautiful city with good schools and reasonable housing with good links to London.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for detailed description of job and main responsibilities.
Thank you.
Person specification
experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive general nuclear medicine experience
- Extensive experience of GMP
Desirable criteria
- Experience of SPECT-CT imaging
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honour degree in a relevant subject or equivalent
- Eligibility to be a production manager on MHRA licence
Desirable criteria
- Msc in related subject
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with complex situations and unpredictable situations
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
- Good manual handling skills and fine dexterity
- Good knowledge of MHRA and nuclear medicine legislation
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Louise White
- Job title
- Head of Nuclear Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522573674
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